Summer Intern Fire Engineering Team Review

As a UK wide fire engineering team working as highly skilled fire consultants, the day is always different with several projects ongoing at any time and an opportunity to dive into areas of specialism and to develop your skillset. Day to day tasks involved markups, report writing, and communication both within the team and with the wider design team.

Technical Communication skills are key and I feel mine developed massively with my time at Arup, the ability to convey highly technical work to the wider design team was really important. Applying book knowledge from university was also important, allowing for these skills to be put into practice.

I was trusted to draft documents which were then reviewed and comments addressed by myself before being issued to the design team. During my time several documents left the firm bearing my name.

The team in the office, or just a teams call away if working at home, were all incredibly supportive during my time. Everyone strived to ensure I understood any task and was more than willing to sit down and talk through anything they themselves were working on.

Although the Fire Team tended to keep to themselves, not to be confused with not communicating within the team, office wide socials and even regional socials took place during my placement. The teams did interact both professionally and socially and it was clear that the staff were all very happy with their work-life alanc.

I thoroughly enjoyed me time at Arup and would highly recommend it as a place to work. The team were all very friendly and I leave with good memories and a significant increase in my abilities and confidence as a fire engineer.

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Ensure you understand Arup's goals as a company, their work extends far beyond what you will be working on and realising that will let you appreciate how the company is so successful. As with many companies sustainability is now a big focus and Arup is committed to this too, digital skills are also key.