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Lubrizol

Instrumentation and Control Engineer Student Review

at Lubrizol

Placement (10 Months+)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Hazelwood, Derbyshire

Review Submitted: August 2023

Overall Rating

4.6 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role
5/5 - Skills Development
5/5 - Support and Guidance
4.5/5 - Company Culture
5/5 - Overall Experience
2/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Supporting and maintaining the control, electrical and instrumentation systems used for engine, driveline and chemical testing.
This included planned installation work, maintenance to ensure a test can continue running and prototyping project work
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes, from day 1 I was working on real projects/installations which tests relies on. This was accompanied by the appropriate level of support but it was very much me doing the work.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Electrical Installation standards
Control panel wiring and design
Understanding of complex control systems
Instrumentation regimes and error considerstions
Working across a large workforce in numerous departments, communicating with a variety of people.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Everyone I worked with was only too happy to show/demonstrate what and how they do their job.
People would regularly drop some of their own work to assist with mine or answer any questions I had
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Extremely friendly, always happy to chat or help. Generally quite relaxed work, with very few hard deadlines (as per an R&D setting).
When mistakes happened the emphasis was on preventing them in the future and not about blame etc, regardless of who made the mistake
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I massively enjoyed my placement and couldn't reccomend it enough. I enjoyed the work, the people, and the environment and had an excellent year
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5

Future Career Prospects

Please rate the future employment prospects at Lubrizol
2/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Lubrizol to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Lubrizol
Spend time researching the culture, safety attitude and industry.
Specifically for this placement, a knowledge of control panels and/or electrical theory would be helpful
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