Mechanical Engineer Review

by GE Aerospace

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Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Role involves the mechanical design and electronic packaging of power and avionics products. Work day to day varies, including design work using Siemens NX, team meetings, hand-on product/prototype assembly, Analysis using Ansys, production of mechanical drawings.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Siemens NX Ansys Mechanical GD&T Other ‘soft skills’ such as communication, organisation, flexibility, presentation skills etc.

  • 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

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Yes. Responsible for some elements of the design of real products, and produced drawings for parts which I saw manufactured.

  • 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?

    • Great team. Manager and team really helpful and encouraging to get involved.

  • 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?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Friendly, supportive, encouraging. General atmosphere quite relaxed, since projects are so big and many people involved there is always people there to ask for support.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Great opportunity, learned a lot.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at GE Aerospace

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend GE Aerospace to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GE Aerospace

    • Since it’s such a big company, make sure you know which area of aerospace the site which you are applying to works within.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Mechanical Engineering

South West

July 2023

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