Instrumentation and Control Engineer Student Review
by Lubrizol
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 Lubrizol
- 7. Would you recommend Lubrizol to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Lubrizol
Overview
Supporting and maintaining the control, electrical and instrumentation systems used for engine, driveline and chemical testing. This included planned installation work, maintenance to ensure a test can continue running and prototyping project work
Skills
Electrical Installation standards Control panel wiring and design Understanding of complex control systems Instrumentation regimes and error considerstions Working across a large workforce in numerous departments, communicating with a variety of people.
Responsibilities
Yes, from day 1 I was working on real projects/installations which tests relies on. This was accompanied by the appropriate level of support but it was very much me doing the work.
Support & Guidance
Everyone I worked with was only too happy to show/demonstrate what and how they do their job. People would regularly drop some of their own work to assist with mine or answer any questions I had
Culture
Extremely friendly, always happy to chat or help. Generally quite relaxed work, with very few hard deadlines (as per an R&D setting). When mistakes happened the emphasis was on preventing them in the future and not about blame etc, regardless of who made the mistake
Your Impressions
I massively enjoyed my placement and couldn't reccomend it enough. I enjoyed the work, the people, and the environment and had an excellent year
Yes
Spend time researching the culture, safety attitude and industry. Specifically for this placement, a knowledge of control panels and/or electrical theory would be helpful
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
East Midlands
August 2023
