Product sytems specialist Review

I enjoyed my placement with rolls-royce so much that I have applied to the graduate scheme and I am hopeful to return to the company after the completion of my degree.

This postition allows you to be treated as an equal member of the team involved in all projects.

My management team were always on hand to answer any questions as well as guide me step by step should it be necessary throughout the year with any and all issues that occured.

This placement as with many jobs had its peaks and dips in terms of business levals depending on what project and customer desire was in the marketplace how ever this overall felt like the perfect balance.

I was fortunate to be given a great deal of responsibility as a member of the configurator team for rolls-royce motor cars I was able to create the assets for the configurator for the new car arriving in 2016 meaning I was privy to some very important information and was trusted not to leak it.

As some one who had never worked in the professional environment this placement was absolutely instrumental in the development of core skills we uad researched in theory at university allowing me to see the real world application for many theories I had previously doubted would be of any value.

The atmosphere was a perfect balance of absolutely professional at all tims but joveial and a pleasant place to work although serious avout the job everone still took the time to talk with one another something I felt was of huge importance for networking and also helping me as an individual to feel more at ease at work.

The placement scheme is clearly something the hr department started sometime ago and the whole operation ran smoothly from start to finish.

My line manager in particular spent large quantities of his time ensuring I had had sufficient training in the software that rolls-royce used. In addition to training for my daily tasks I was able to attend a number of team building days where the departments worked on improving the quality of work produced and finding new efficiency.

The future prospects of employment are definitely of interest to me and I have already discussed my application to the company as a graduate post degree

Plenty of fun was to be had organised between the interns and also permanent staff

The cost of living in Chichester was high as a result being a car owner I commuted from Portsmouth which in a petrol car was extremely expensive so I got hold of a diesel car instead and the cost dropped dramatically

The night life in Chichester is non existing however I wasn't living in Chichester as I was commuting from elsewhere and I doubt thos would be a deal breaker for anyone wanting to gain employment in the company

There were ample opportunity to be involved in after work activities if you so wished