Homecare Process Science Placement Student Review
at Unilever
Placement (10 Months+)
Chemical Engineering
Liverpool
Review Submitted: June 2025
Overall Rating
4.4 /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!
3/5
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Overview of Role
4.3/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
4/5
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Overall Experience
3/5
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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 I would perform batches at lab/pilot plant scale and perform data analysis to successfully scale up processes to the factory scale driving business value. I would mainly interact with my manager and other process engineers in the same department as well as other functions such as formulation and supply chain. I would occasionally interact with suppliers about materials that we use. I am responsible for several studies in projects to ensure processes are feasible at large scale in factory.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
There have been high priority projects that my work will have direct implications to scale up to factory and route to market. Work I have done with data analysis of laundry appraisals have had almost an instant impact where there are significant savings in cost and water usage.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
3/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Significant improvements in my presentation, data analysis, and teamworking skills. Understanding what is important to projects and delivering business value was a major skill that I have picked up. General engineering principles have also been developed by working on a pilot plant.
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?
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
3/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
My manager would have monthly meetings with me to check I have been on track and have been developing steadily throughout my time. People were very open to helping you and I was never dissuaded from asking questions and taking learning opportunities from more experienced workers.
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 culture was friendly and had a real emphasis of collaboration. Although there may have been times of high stress it never became overbearing and there were clear access routes of support. There were plenty of team bonding opportunities and made working together as a group more enjoyable.
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 did very much enjoy my placement, even though it is not specifically a job that I would choose to do in the future, I got plenty of great experience and the culture of the company made it a pleasant experience. Occasionally I would feel that my work does not have as big of an impact as I would like but overall it felt like I had made a large impact.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
3/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
Be friendly and forthcoming, the work is so varied that they are more looking towards how you think versus hyper specific topics you would learn at university. It is more about the application of core concepts and understanding how to use these in a real world setting.
