Graduate Engineer Review

It was an enjoyable experience, with a very good working culture and interesting work, but grew tiresome at end when workload was reduced due to climate of the industry.

I felt valued in the work i did and the early responsibility recieved, but after recruiting others into my department i felt les so as i was given less important work to do.

I had a very well organised mentoring and chartership pathway through the company, with management being fully suportive to answer technical issues i faced.

After a slow start where i was being trained, i was effectively working full time n projects for a few months. After this however i had very little work, and had to ask others to offer help and to find things to read and study to pass the time effectivly.

As stated above, i feel that although i had the opportunity to do a lot of work, this was primariliy in assisting others, and later on i had no work of any value to complete.

I feel the skills i developed helped me with writing technical reports for my final year project, an have also prepared me in work styles and conduction that is helping me in my current Graduate Job.

To begin with, very good. There is a strong social/drinking dculture to the company which i was wuickly involved with, and this runs through a number of outside work activities such as golf and football. There is a strong pressure to work on projects as there is a timewriting system being operated, so if you are on overheads you feel you are not contributing, even though it is the managers' fault for not arranging work for you. At the end of the placement, morale was low due to redundancies and termination/pay cuts of contractors. This is in addition to the above reference to overheads, as there was less work to pass around, with pressure from upper management on utilisation, whilst long established workers were getting away without having to do much.

Well organised in that role was clearly defined and started working in within weeks. It had been planned to do a rotation shcme aound the business, but this did not happen.

I had three workshops related to business communication, in addition to skills developed in job or in practice demonstrations, such as Vacuum Testing for offshore vessels.

It is not going to hapen, due to the huge number of lay-offs. Even if offered back, i do not think i could cope with the toxic atmosphere the company moved towards.

Excellent, we had drinks after work every friday, and also met outside of this regularly, such as 5 aside football.

Quite expensive to get a nice flat in the centre of Aberdeen,

A lot of bars

There were opportunities available through work colelagues, but Aberdeen is not an especially fun place to be, and without a car it is impossible to get to most recreational activities.