Wing Structure Analysis Placement Review

by Airbus

Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Overall my role usually work on stress analysis for damaged in-Service aircrafts and digitally automate stress calculation with Python. In day-to-day basis there is a lot report writing, some stress analysis using Excel, Airbus Stress Analysis Softwares, Nastrans, LAP, Python coding etc.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes, I have learnt a lot aircraft wing stress analysis process. I also enhanced my python coding skill, had some experience with DevOps (CI/CD) and Machine Learning. I also developed my interpersonal skill through this placement.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes, I have given quite a few individual projects which I take full responsibility. This helped me to develop my project management skill as well.


  • 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?
  • I receive very good and detailed support from my supervisor and my colleagues, everyone are very nice and helpful. I need to ask a lot of questions that are not in the onboarding guide which is understandable since Airbus is a big company and there is a lot of things going on, there isn't a fully covered guide for all processes.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Company culture is brilliant, very diverse, everyone are nice and chill and love to help and not competitive. Airbus probably has one of best work-life-balance in the UK with 35h working hour per week, 40% work from home time and 30+ days holidays.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

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

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I quite enjoy it, I learnt a lot of things I wished to and my managers were very supportive for me to look for opportunities for my self-development.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Airbus
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Airbus to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Airbus
  • Try to network with Airbus employee and make sure the role is what you want to do because Airbus has a lot a lot of teams and sometimes what the team actually does is quite different with the team name


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering

South West

June 2024


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