Technical placement Review

by Tata Steel

Rating

3.5/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    2.0
  • Your Impressions
    3.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I worked with rapid response maintenance team. My days mostly revolved around observing and advising on repair and development jobs


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have deepened my first hand knowledge of the processes involved in maintaining and installing new hardware on a continuously working system.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 3/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Not a massive amount since the jobs I was working on had quite a high level of risk and required quite a lot of technical knowledge


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Unfortunately I did not have regular contact with my mentor however I was always able to find someone to answer questions when I had them


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • It was exactly what I expected from the heavy end of a steel mill. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up for you to decide


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 1/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed being able to have a change of pace from my academic studies, being able to see what its like for the people working on and with the machines we design was very useful


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Tata Steel
  • 2/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Tata Steel to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Tata Steel
  • Idk man


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Mechanical Engineering

Wales

November 2022


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