Process Engineering Intern Review

Really enjoyed working with everyone on my team - very welcoming environment to new starts and interns. Occasionally, one would meet workers that were too busy to answer questions but that is one of the challenges that I believe anyone in any firm will have to accommodate for.

I felt very valued by fellow interns as well as everyone in the Engineering Department. They treated me with the same respect as anyone else, asked if I was interested in joining their after-work activities and at the same time any opinions I brought to the table were not discarded but taken into serious consideration.

I was allocated a buddy, had 1 to 1s with both my project's Line Managers on a weekly basis, as well as a biweekly 1 to 1 with the Head of the Engineering Department to ensure I was on track. All of them would frequently check up on me, and remained very accessible through phone and e-mail to respond to my queries.

Being a 3 month internship, and having 2 projects to work on, a lot of time was spent getting to know different departments and the ways that the systems worked. Working from 8 to 5 was frequently not enough with work having to be done at home. In hindsight, better planning could have eased the pressure.

I was given two projects that had savings potential of over £400,000 p.a. - big projects. My line managers expected me to use the support and facilities to contact different business units, benchmark with P&G plants all around the world and deliver tangible results and savings by the end of the internship.

I will definitely take a lot of project management skills into my university. Also respecting some of the work processes involved to consider all the factors and some of the root causes to these problems is useful for gap analysis, that can be used in any problems tackled.

Very lively, lots of work done within the office. Good coffee machine, the team would celebrate birthdays as well by bringing in snacks. Open office so can always pop by managers desk and ask questions - not that hierachical.

Mostly well organised internship. There was a bit of a delay with some of the work attire provided but overall all interns were taken care of quite well.

Did not have the opportunity to experience this.

If you succeed in meeting deliverables, it is highly likely to have a future with the firm.

All the fellow placement students had a good sense of humour. Had a good few nights out and caught a couple of movies.

Cheap

Grays is not very big and not much nightlife available. Very close to London so not too bad.

There was football, and some of the graduate new starts used to organise mini golf or something once in a while. Opportunities are there if you look for them, or start them.