Field Service Engineer Intern Review

Very interesting and rewarding when got machines up and running again.

All the engineers are lovely. Always willing to explain any thing you didn't understand.Really welcoming and friendly people.

All the engineers and management where easy to get hold of and to help with any issues I had.

In my role as a Field Service Intern, the job is a bit unpredictable, as it just depends on what faults are called in. Some days your job could only take 30 mins, but you might have to drive 3 hours to get to the hospital, other days you could be working around the corner, but you could be working till about 6pm trying to get the fault fixed. But the busy days seem to cancel out the days when you aren't that busy, so keeps the job interesting.

Since I wasn't fully trained on any of the equipment I was never sent on a job myself, but the engineers always gave me something to do, so you still had some responsibility, but nothing too overwhelming. Normally the planning team organise the engineers day to day jobs, it was only occasionally I was planned for a set job. This gave me the challenge and opportunity to choose the jobs I went to so I could develop my own learning. It also meant I could chose jobs which I found particularity interesting, for example I love working on MRI faults.

You are the face for the company when working in the hospitals, as you are who the staff/customer meet. So my skills when dealing with people have improved. Also my problem solving skills, as you are faced with faults on a daily bases. I have also got a chance to see what makes a good system, and have picked up on designs which aren't exactly service friendly. I have also got used to reading CAD drawings and schematics which you don't really get to do much on my uni coarse.

Didn't really use the office, only about once every couple of months for meetings. My job was field bases, working in many different hospitals around the country, with all the different engineers. This kept the job interesting as you always had something to talk about or catch up on if you hadn't seen someone in a while.

I was given a plan at the start of the year of things which I had to complete. Though it was up to me as to when I fulfilled them and in which order which was nice as there are a lot of different kinds of equipment within the Healthcare sector.

Gave me the opportunity to see what Philips as a whole company specialized in. I also got to spend a few days in the main Philips office to see what all the different departments where involved in there. Would have been nice to go on a basic training coarse to have the opportunity to go on jobs myself, but this would have been very costly and time consuming as the training school is in Holland.

I've got my foot in the door as the saying is, but no word of a future job offer, will have to just keep a watch out for when they're recruiting.

Went go Charting after business meeting. Had some jobs where you had to stay over night, so you got to have a bit of bant with any colleagues that where there which was nice. And occasionally went out for some drinks.

Well Scotland: not too expensive, but plenty to choose from.

Though it depends where you choose to live as there are engineers scattered all over the UK

Yea normally home by 6pm at the latest depending on where you where travelling from and if you got stuck in rush hour traffic.