Systems Engineer Review
by MBDA
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 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 MBDA
- 7. Would you recommend MBDA to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
Overview
Daily tasks include validating mature and immature systems, building/ researching test equipment used to validate said systems. Daily interactions include leasing with stakeholders within my function to ensure validation of systems are on schedule. My responsibilities vary but some include; Building and testing hardware / software, Configuring/ setting up instrumentation to the correct parameters, Producing engineering drawings and test procedures, writing technical reports and conducting trials from an ISV perspective.
Skills
Learning soft skills such as people managing/ organisational skills, team work and time management. Learning Technical skills such as soldering, mechanical design (CAD) and installing graphics cards. Learning different code languages.
Responsibilities
I was given many opportunities throughout my placement, these included building hardware on a fast paced project, developing code on a piece of test equipment I designed and conducting a trial on a high value system.
Support & Guidance
I was provided with two managers who were very supportive and happy to take time out of there day to show me how things are build, developed and designed. With this support, I was able to learn quickly and able to confidently navigate challenging but rewarding work.
Culture
I felt valued, supported and motivated to do the best possible work I could. I feel the company is trust worthy and transparent fostering a sense of belonging and loyalty among the stakeholders. I felt encouraged to collaborate with the wider company stakeholders and the company. The company preaches a good work life balance with its use of dynamic work.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed every part of it from working offsite and experiencing new ways of working (agile working). To building and validating complex systems comprised of many sub-systems.
Yes
Take up every opportunity thrown at you even if it seems daunting and out of your depth the support is there to allow you to succeed.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Engineering
South East
July 2023
