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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
I undertook my placement at Cummins Darlington, as a VPI Purchasing Student. VPI stands for Value Package Introduction, meaning that I work in new or limited production engines because of this my main focus throughout my placement has been on the ACE program. Day to day my responsibility involves tracking parts, communicating, and following up with suppliers, holding meetings, sharing key files and documents with suppliers or engineers, request for quotes or request for orders to suppliers. Within tracking parts I monitor their Noun Names, piece price, extended price, lead times, quantity and who is the responsible design engineer. Too maintain this information I will set up calls with many of the engineers to go through their parts to ensure that all their information is up to date.
Skills
I became qualified to give tours of the Darlington shop floor facility, through this I have gave multiple tours to suppliers, students, and also internal Cummins employees. This became a grate opportunity for me to talk with people across the business who I would other wise not get an opportunity to speak with as well as being able to question and compare suppliers process and experiences to further understand the engineering world. For my training to give tours of the shop floor I worked on the shop floor for a week rotating on each department spending a day in each department. I gained valuable experience and knowledge through this week as well as seeing how industry 4.0 affected the way process work, hugely impoved my communication skills through meetings with suppliers and Cross buisness functions.
Responsibilities
A moderate amount of responsibility, to start with you are just helping out but by the end you are the main contact for a few suppliers there parts become your responsiblity to chase up and ensure these parts arrive on time and makeing sure you get updates from the suppliers about the parts. Theres all ways people to ask for when you get stuck but you are giveing the opportunity to over come these problems your self first and then fall back on help if needed.
Support & Guidance
Healthy amount of support, as it was all ways available if I needed support but no one was looking over my shoulder making sure things are going how they want.
Culture
incredible, people all ways open to help even if your first time speaking with them.
Your Impressions
Thoroughly enjoyed, improved my CV massively gave me great opportunity's for improvement and personal development.
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Be friendly, be kind and be inquisitive to ask questions.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Procurement
North East
July 2024