Cost Placement Review
at GE Aerospace
Placement (10 Months+)
Finance, Research
Ayr
Review Submitted: May 2025
Overall Rating
5 /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
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Day to day placement duties include maintaining a site wide cost smartsheet, ensuring all projects are captured accurately to reduce cost, each project could be a time saving or a new process or machine to help reduce time needed to process a part.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
i was given a major amount of responsibility, in charge of a large portfolio of different projects, ensuring cost savings were captures, plotting workscopes correctly into ws tool to ensure that each engine meets its estimated cost in labour targets.
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?
I have learn lots of skills, such as managing a large portfolio of different plans, lots of problem solving opportunities to help drill down time savings and cost reductions, i have also developed my personal skills when working within a team and leading large projects to meet set deadlines.
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?
i received a large amount of guidance from my people leader who was really supportive throughout my placement, whenever i did not know the answer to a problem my people leader did not hesitate to help me get the answer but also taught me how to get to the answer.
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?
the company culture is great, lots of welcoming people and warm faces around every corner.
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?
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?
i really enjoyed my placement, so much that i applied for a full time position here and managed to get it.
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 GE Aerospace
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend GE Aerospace to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to GE Aerospace
Be aware that there is a steep learning curve when joining GE Aerospace as there is lots to learn, but the people here are more than happy to help teach you and get you up to speed to where you need to be
