Student Engineer Review

by Spirax Sarco

Rating

3.5/5
  • Skills
    3.3
  • Responsibilities
    2.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    3.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • creating budget quotes including technical information about heaters for customers creating initial costings using in house software and calculation tools contacting manufacturing sites for changes in material costs and manufacturing updates overlooking electrical panel drawings for the initial budget quotations emailing customers to advise their technical clarifications and advice on which products to buy processing and logging in inquiries throughout the week on companies website organising the folder and files to store all appropriate information

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • developed my Microsoft excel skills and organisation skills and also developed my computing and technical knowledge skills

  • 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?

    • 3/5
  • 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?

    • Everything was overlooked by my line manager so I didnt have too much own responsibility

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 2/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • I got help whenever I asked for it and our HR manager had weekly catch up sessions which was useful

  • 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?

    • quite a chill office, only came into office twice a week and the rest was working from home, It was a shared office space and the lights above me werent working for 6 months so it was a bit dark as natural light didnt flow into the room

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 3/5
  • 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 enjoyed it, great experience for what office life is like.. way less stressful than uni, that's for sure

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

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

    • 3/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Spirax Sarco

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Spirax Sarco to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Spirax Sarco

    • be confident when applying because you never know what will happen, it also doesn't matter what background you came from as they are accepting of all

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

London

November 2024

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