Trainee Engineer Review

Very good placement, as I am allways busy and never waiting for work.

Very friendly colleagues, everyone willing to help and make the experience much more enjoyable.

A review meeting every 3 months allows me to keep up to date with targets and to ensure I am comfortable with current job and.

Constant demand for work, which is great as it allows me to enhance time keeping skills. Sometimes, I am expected to work outside working hours, but this is allways acknowldged.

I get treated almost like graduate engineering, my colleagues also realise that i'm also in university and have no arguements about university work being my priority. I have been given a project to draw and design which took me approximately 5 months.

The work I've completed with my company has been beneficial with my degree as I can ask colleagues for help on coursework. As for training, a course was completed as soon as i arrived at the company which is compulsary for all new employees. This course shows what to expect on a construction site. This will be of help to me everytime I enter a construction site. I have attended many other training courses, such as first aid, Construction Design and Management: Duties of a designer, and Practice for working on motorways and trunk roads.

Everyone is busy so it can be quiet some days. But everyone says hello and are not afraid to have a joke!! This makes it a much easier place to work.

My course administrator organised everything and I was having interviews as soon as possible. I have review meetings ever year to see how well it's going. Any problems are discussed in this meeting and normally resolved.

In my review meetings with work, I was told to attend as many training courses as possible. Therefore, my company are willing to pay for all the courses I attend. They also pay for any educational visits I have to attend with university.

Everyone seems happy with the work I have produced for them. I have another 2.5 years remaining on my course, so if I continue completing work to the correct standard and on time then I believe I have a good chance. I was told in my interview that my company would not invest all this money on me and then let me go at the end of my 5 years period. I believe this means they use my course to develop engineers for future employment.

Every year, offices from around the UK attend an annual company sports day. There are also weekly football and touch rugby meetings which is great fun. A night out in cardiff is a regualar, with the company paying for the first drink. Depending on what the employees want to use the sports and social money for. An annual christmas party is also held.

I don't live in Cardiff, but the prices seem to be the same as anywhere else.

It is very good as there are plenty of places to go and they are quite close to each other.