Industrial Placement Student Review
by Mott MacDonald
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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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 Mott MacDonald
- 7. Would you recommend Mott MacDonald to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Mott MacDonald
Overview
As a mechanical engineer in the water division, I have assisted in sizing and selecting all the mechanical equipment required at clean water and sewerage treatment works. This mainly involves pumps but also includes penstocks, valves air blowers, etc. This requires a lot of calculations, schedules and drawings to be produced. To do this, I work within a multidisciplinary team (electrical, civil, process) and we regularly have meetings.
Skills
I have developed a lot of existing skills building on from Uni, including hydraulic calculations of pumps and pipelines, and report writing. Some new skills I have developed include working on Process and Instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) from a technical side but also working with an international engineering team where most communication is via Teams calls and emails.
Responsibilities
I was responsible for carrying out a lot of calculations and completing documents. I was responsible for my own time and only had to meet the wider team deadlines..
Support & Guidance
Everyone I met in the office and online was always happy to offer support or when they were busy would point me in the direction of someone else who could offer guidance.
Culture
The general atmosphere was very friendly, everyone seemed to get on very well. Everyone seems generally interested in engineering and making a difference.
Your Impressions
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on placement and have had a great experience of what working life as an engineer can be.
Yes
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Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Mechanical Engineering
East of England
May 2025
