Annual Conference Exhibitors 2025
There is no better place to make connections within the engineering industry than at our #WESAnnualConference!
We have a fantastic lineup of exhibitors joining us in Birmingham who are excited to network with women engineers. Book your ticket now and gain contacts from professionals across a large range of engineering industries. From experts in Defence to Education and everything in between – come and meet the companies leading the UK Engineering sector!
At Amazon, the RME (Reliability and Maintenance Engineering) team is the beating heart of Amazon Operations. We’re the gatekeepers who ensure the durable quality and operational state of our machines. Passionate about innovation at every step of the process, we create, reinvent and maintain cutting edge technologies, ensuring logistics and deliveries run smoothly. We strive to build a culture that’s inclusive for everyone and are thrilled to be returning to the WES Conference 2025 to highlight the hard work, success, determination and commitment of individuals and organisations who are helping to grow the number of women in the UK STEM workforce.
AWE keeps the UK safe and secure through nuclear science, technology and engineering.
Our role in nuclear defence includes:
- Designing, developing, manufacturing, and maintaining the warheads for the UK’s Continuous at Sea Deterrent.
- Anti-terrorism and anti-proliferation
- Unique nuclear facilities
We’re proud of our diverse and high-skilled engineers who work on some of the most advanced research, design and production facilities in the world. We proactively encourage career progression – with our engineering community having access to dedicated mentors and the opportunity to become Chartered, if they wish.
All of our engineers, regardless of their background, are valued colleagues. We want to make work accessible – and that’s why our award-winning family flexible policies enable our staff to continue progressing within their career, while having a great work-life balance.
In today’s world, what we do has never been more important. No other organisation can do what we do to defend our country. To find out more come and speak to us at our stand or visit awe.co.uk/careers.
Allianz Engineering Inspection Services (AIES) is proud to be the UK’s largest inspection company, with over 600 engineers dedicated to ensuring the highest standards of safety and compliance. As part of the global Allianz Group, a leader in integrated financial services, AIES plays a crucial role in assessing engineering risks and maintaining health, safety, and regulatory standards across the UK.
Our team of Engineer Surveyors specialise in various disciplines, including Lift and Crane, Power Press, Pressure Mechanical, Electrical, and LEV. Their expertise is vital in safeguarding our clients’ operations, from small independent garages to iconic landmarks.
Working with AIES offers the unique opportunity to engage in hands-on inspections and collaborate with a diverse range of customers. Our engineers are part of an exceptional team committed to being at the forefront of engineering safety and compliance.
At AIES, we believe in providing a supportive and rewarding environment for our engineers, offering competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and flexible working arrangements. We are dedicated to fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within the engineering industry.
Discover more about our services and commitment to engineering safety at: About Engineering Inspection | Allianz Insurance OR visit us at the WES Annual Conference where the team are there to discuss career opportunities.
As the UK’s only integrated services and safety products business, we’re the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.
As experts in safety, we understand that each business faces its own unique and complex challenges. In order to manage workplace health and safety, it’s important to have the right partner to help you identify, monitor and reduce the risk associated with workplace hazards such as:
With a focus on operational technology and digital transformation, Capula has been a leader in advanced system integration for decades; optimising energy efficiency, intelligent asset management and delivering operational performance for asset and energy intensive clients.
Delivering critical technical solutions ranging across automation control, panel build, cyber security, digitalisation and industrial operational technology (OT) programmes, we can ensure the integrity, safety and security of complex solutions across the industrial landscape responding to the challenges you face today and in the future.
We enable our clients to safely operate and control some of the most strategically important facilities in the UK.
With 2024 sales and revenues of $64.8 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
Over the last century, Caterpillar has grown with our customers to help build a better, more sustainable world. We’ve changed together as the world has changed: creating, building, problem-solving, testing, innovating, servicing, and improving. When customers choose our products, services and solutions today, they also gain 100 years of experience and expertise.
Today, more than 100,000 employees, spread across 65 countries and speaking 84 languages, stand united by a common purpose: to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. Over 10,000 of those global employees are located in the UK in one of our 18 facilities.
At Caterpillar, we believe diversity and inclusion (D&I) is a journey, not a destination. We believe in ‘The Power of Everyone’ as a source of innovation and competitive advantage and we are proud that our people come from across the globe, with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We are therefore delighted to continue our partnership with the Women’s Engineering Society to support our D&I strategy.
Daphne Jackson Fellowships are unique. They offer the opportunity to return to a career in research after a break of at least two years for family, caring or health reasons.
Our fellowships enable people to overcome the challenges of returning to a career as a researcher or research technical professional. They ensure that skills, talent, training and career promise are not lost.
We support people through our application process for a fellowship that combines a personalised programme of retraining and mentorship. Our fellows gain the confidence and skills they need to succeed and enable them to generate novel, high-quality research findings or make essential contributions to the technical research environment.
At FM, we bring a unique risk management focus to commercial property insurance. Our clients look to us for cost-effective insurance and risk-financing solutions to minimize business interruption and the financial impact of a possible loss. We are driven by a core philosophy that the majority of loss is preventable. Fires, floods and other catastrophes do happen but with proper planning and strategy, you can minimize the impact or eliminate the risk altogether. We take a proactive approach to risk, working with clients to evaluate their global exposure and ensure resilience is built into key decisions. If companies don’t do this and experience a loss, they are at risk of potentially losing revenue, market share and shareholder value, not to mention the major reputational hit that may also follow. With nearly 200 years of experience, we offer a one-of-a-kind, engineering-based approach to risk. Using local on-site engineers, we assess facilities to consistent worldwide standards, based on scientific research conducted exclusively for property risk. If you can properly identify a risk, you can mitigate it. FM believes that resilience is a choice every company should make if they want to thrive in a volatile world.
Protecting the UK’s interests.
Taking your skills and experience further.
Growing your career with full support.
It all matters.
At FCDO Services, we protect the UK’s interests at home and overseas. We do vital work on a global scale. We design and deliver secure services to high-level customers, such as governments and international organisations, all over the world – often in places that others don’t go. From personal and site security to counter eavesdropping and sophisticated cloud solutions, our customers look to us to keep their information and assets secure in a constantly changing world. We respond with speed, agility and technological innovation and are able to deliver solutions anywhere in the world.
We are an organisation of immense capability.
Many of our roles are truly international, but whatever you do here, you’ll support and deliver complex work that just matters more. Your contribution will help keep people safe, protect critical information and safeguard national interests. As such, your work will have greater significance. And the impact you make will reach further.
Our careers are as diverse as our organisation
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is a membership organisation representing over 115,000 members globally. IMechE supports mechanical engineers through the entirety of their career journey. Its priority is to encourage its members to develop their professional and personal skills so they can achieve their career goals.
IMechE ensures its members have access to life-long learning to help them maximise their contribution to society. IMechE provides training and development opportunities as well as access to a global, inclusive and thriving community of engineers.
IMechE aims to promote the huge contribution that mechanical engineers make to society at large. It harnesses the expertise of its members to influence government policy and be a trusted source of advice to the media and other key stakeholders.”
“Leonardo is one of the UK’s leading aerospace companies and one of biggest suppliers of defence and security equipment to the UK Ministry of Defence. The company operates from 7 main sites across the country, employing around 8,000 highly skilled people. Globally, Leonardo is among the top ten world players in Aerospace, Defence and Security, with more than 49,000 employees and a significant industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the USA. In 2021, Leonardo recorded consolidated revenues of €14.1 billion and invested €1.8 billion in Research and Development.
For more information visit uk.leonardo.com or follow us on Twitter @Leonardo_UK
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s vision is engineering and technology in the service of society. We create and lead a community of outstanding experts and innovators to engineer better lives.
As a charity, we deliver public benefit from excellence in engineering and technology. As a Fellowship, we convene leading businesspeople, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics from every part of engineering and technology. And as a National Academy: we provide leadership for engineering and technology, and independent, expert advice to policymakers in the UK and beyond.
Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology business focused on the repair, regeneration and replacement of soft and hard tissue. We exist to restore people’s bodies and their self-belief by using technology to take the limits off living. We call this purpose: Life Unlimited
Uniper is a European energy company with global reach and activities in more than 40 countries. With around 7,500 employees, the company makes an important contribution to security of supply in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Uniper’s operations include power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. Uniper procures gas – including liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and other energy sources on global markets. The company owns and operates gas storage facilities with a total capacity of more than 7 billion cubic meters.
Uniper aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040. To achieve this, the company is transforming its power plants and facilities and investing in flexible, dispatchable power generation units. The company plans to offset any remaining CO2 emissions by high-quality CO2-offsets.
In the UK, Uniper owns and operates a flexible generation portfolio of power stations, a fast-cycle gas storage facility and two high pressure gas pipelines, from Theddlethorpe to Killingholme and from Blyborough to Cottam. We also have significant long-term regasification capacity at the Grain LNG terminal in Kent, to convert LNG back to natural gas.