Industrial Placement Review

Item: Industrial Placement at Mott MacDonald
Rating: 3.7
Author: Anonymous

at Mott MacDonald

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

Glasgow

Review Submitted: May 2024

Overall Rating

3.7 /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!

2/5 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

3/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - Company Culture

2.5/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

I have daily discussions with members of my team to discuss the content and quality of technical or admin work I've been provided by others including various project principles and my line manager. My main responsibility includes completely high quality work in a reasonable time frame and professional manner

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given reasonable responsibility. I was expected to complete technical work at the graduate level. And as I completed work related to project management, such as framework agreements, NEC contracts, cost projections etc I was given a greater level of responsibility as I was working closely along side experienced and high level members of management

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

2/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

I've developed existing soft skills such as time management and organisation. Also, in my professional downtime I've come to better understand effective learning techniques that have helped me grasp various engineering skills or concepts that I'd yet to learn at university but needed to know in order to complete my work

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

4/5

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?

I was given exemplary support and guidance and I knew it was there as soon as I asked. The learning tools provided to learn new concepts were understanding. However my access to project work was extremely limited so I while I used my time to learn concepts I was hardly given the opportunity to put these concepts into practice and apply them to real scenarios

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

3/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

3/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

The team created a relaxed and welcoming environment in the office where I was able to learn/work how, where (office or home) and when I wanted. However, when it came to seeking project work various members of the team seemed reluctant to add me to a project and if they did it was for admin work rather than to gain technical experience

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

3/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

Over all I enjoyed my time. My biggest issue was the disjoined pace at which I received project work, I spend at least 80% of my time not on projects and when I did receive project work it was for 3 different projects over a short span of time. When not on a project I utilised my time learning, this allowed m to go at my own pace and learn what interested me