Industrial Placement - Civil Engineer Review

by Kier Group

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Responsible for collating and forming as built information for the civils work on the project, demonstrating good record keeping and the need for these for the life of the project after construction. Served as the main engineer for setting out the multiple structures within the project.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Completed the Environmental Good Practice on Site Virtual Training Became a BIM: Information Management Practitioner Developed my leadership skills


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Project management and cataloguing of lessons learnt as part of the corporate memory if and when any future works maybe required. This includes planning for the next stage of the programme. Regular and continuous development meetings have been highly praiseworthy with added responsibility given.


  • 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?
  • The Site Agent and Senior Site Engineer gave many opportunities to learn and grow but when I needed they were there to answer any questions I had and if they didn't know would try find out for me.


  • 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?
  • Due to COVID a lot of company wide events were cancelled, however the Kier Moving for May was a big success and I was Team Captain for our site team.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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 really enjoyed my placement and it exceeded my expectations on what a placement was - I got more responsibility and did more work that went towards the actual project than I thought I would. I would definitely go back - in fact, I have a summer placement lined up for next year.


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

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Kier Group
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Kier Group to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Kier Group
  • Check your CV, do mock assessment centres and interviews. The majority of people on site, even though older and male, were kind, accepting and helpful. ASK QUESTIONS!!!!!!


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

South West

October 2021


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