Spacecraft Production Quality Assurance Review
at Airbus
Placement (10 Months+)
Manufacturing, Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering, Audit, Business Management, Engineering, Insurance and Risk Management, Project Management, Surveying
Stevenage
Review Submitted: July 2025
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!
4/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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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.
Supporting the general day to day Quality Assurance activities, including non-conformance management, key inspection activities and driving non quality prevention.
Also helping the department to develop its digital dashboards, with indicators identifying key drivers in the cost of non-quality.
Also helping the department to develop its digital dashboards, with indicators identifying key drivers in the cost of non-quality.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Responsibility was the greatest catalyst to ensuring my development. Being given lead of projects and activities, with authority to execute my plans, created an environment of continuous development.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
4/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Experience on Problem Solving tools and practices;
Understanding on how a world class manufacturing organisation is run and set up.
Developing improvement mind-set and change management.
Understanding on how a world class manufacturing organisation is run and set up.
Developing improvement mind-set and change management.
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 was assigned a mentor, who has a lifetime of experience in the industry, being recognised across Europe as an expert in his field. He allowed me to expand my knowledge, gain valuable experience, make executive decisions, and supported me always while maintaining an encouraging and growth persona when I did things wrong to ensure that I improved and learnt.
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?
Despite working on spacecraft, most people saw it as a mundane and regular job in the manufacturing branch. Cross departmental collaboration suffered from this as people had little interest in helping beyond their personal scope of work. Quality as with most companies is viewed as a non-value added activity and I was treated as such by some people. Despite this though, I thoroughly enjoyed the placement and developed my character to work with these hindrances.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
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?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
The experience, opportunities, lesson learnt, and personal development has accelerated me in my career development massively. Despite my technical knowledge not growing as much as it would in an academic environment, job / industry specific knowledge was something I realised that despite thinking I thought I knew what I was going to need to know, I didn't, and had to change continuously to improve, allowing me to integrate and get out of my placement not what I wanted to at the start, but what I think now I needed to.
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 Airbus
3/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Airbus to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Airbus
Same as with any company; research your location, department, role, location, business, and job related activities before you apply. The amount of people that thought we made planes when it came to interviewing for a role as a spacecraft quality engineer was disappointing. Also, don't put so much credit toward technical knowledge, I get you have university as your main source of information on your CV, but your soft skills, ability to solve problems, learn and apply knowledge is way more important. You can learn what you need to when you get here, impress them with who you are as a person, not what you know.
