BAE Systems

Weekly meetings with the wider team. Daily 15 minute catch up with line manager to ensure I'm happy with my work. Ticket work which varies from any aspect of software engineering.

Meetings where I got to engage with cross functional teams. Role involved review of technical documents and technical report writing. There were also times when I had to go on board ship vessels to identify and inspect equipment, and compared it with rele...

Conducting risk assessments.

This is dependant on placement area. BAE gives you the opportunity to rotate through three different placements - although this is an informal setup, and something you must align yourself, by contacting other teams etc. My first role was a project supervi...

Provided support to engineering teams as well as took on a project to aid with the clearance of in service function. This involved calculations, modelling and justification of engineering challenges

Within my 12 month placement i have had 2 placements which have had quite different day to day jobs. In my first placement i engaged regularly with external suppliers and managed relationships with stakeholders. My days also involved a lot of admin and cr...

The role involves communication and collaboration with team members on a day-to-day basis. There is a responsibility for the production of technical documentation through communication and no two days are the same. Consistent learning is the key to a good...

Undertake tasks given to me by the electrical engineering team

Everyday is different as we are an engineering team so it varies on what problems come to us from the project. Providing technical solutions and assistance to problems. Carry out surveys of the ships systems to report on integrity. Produce engineering re...

Mechanical Engineer, working with CAD to design enclosures for Electronics. Work involves design, technical drawings, prototyping, testing and analysis.

Supporting lifecycle management of complex systems.

Systems engineering concepts, including the V cycle, requirements analysis and breakdown of higher level requirements.This includes work on software models and improving software capability.

The role involves turning up to your work place and continuing work on whatever project you are working on. This could include having meetings with your line manager or team to discuss the project, review code or plan out the next few weeks of work. You m...

During my industrial placement at BAE Systems, I had the opportunity to work in a highly skilled 50-person software team contributing to the development of complex and scalable software systems. I was exposed to how real software teams operate and was ver...

The 12 month role involves three four month placements in departments of your choosing, in each placement the team will provide work and support for the work. Day-day activities normally include some form of meeting about members in the teams work or your...

I was in office 3 days a week, however I cannot discuss my daily tasks.

In my first half of the placement my day to day activity mainly involved programming analysis tools and writing reports based of the analysis I conducted. During the second half of the placement I mainly focused on digitising and automating manual process...

Everyday was different but I continued to assist with day to day engineering and generating electronic trackers to be able to assist the departments with effective task and activity management. Understanding different regulations and processes is essentia...

Working on various projects. It is all real work - no 'intern projects'. Work is interesting and varied.

Support Modelling and Data Engineer supporting the Typhoon and Hawk Aircraft through availability and reliability based modelling of components and systems. Predominantly based on Matlab software, but Excel and VBA coding also used. Placement included a l...