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Cummins

Applications Engineering Review

at Cummins

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

Huddersfield

Review Submitted: June 2022

Overall Rating

4.3 /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 - Overview of Role
4.5/5 - Skills Development
5/5 - Support and Guidance
4/5 - Company Culture
4/5 - 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.
Daily work revolves around working with cross functional teams in technical and sales.
Working with SMEs to understand testing and validation requirements for customer requests.
Ensuring appropriate resource is assigned to project work and to ensure technical requirements are met for internal processes and customer needs.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
I was responsible for entire projects during the course of completion. Additionally, since the role requires you to be in the same team throughout the year you understand project requirements and deliverables from start to end. On occasions, I was given responsibility for direct customer communications.
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?
Cross functional communication.
Customer communication.
Technical understanding of turbochargers.
Internal validation and testing requirements for different components.
Project management skills.
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?
4/5
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
4/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Working during the COVID meant a lot of onsite support was not available. However, team members were excellent in helping to understand system level aspects of the components and how they are affected.
Additional technical training was also provided by the different technical teams.
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?
Company culture is excellent with good understand of work/life balance. Everyone is supportive and makes you feel like a permanent member of the team as opposed to a temporary worker.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
3/5
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 was extremely pleased with my placement and the development they provided. Helping to grow soft skills in an industry environment is far more useful than anything that can be technically taught at university, as such being a unique experience only placement can provide.
Technical skills acquired through placement are very enjoyable as well as it was interesting to see how in depth the analysis goes.
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 Cummins
4/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Ensure you jump into every opportunity available to you. Challenge ideas if something doesn't make sense to help improve your understanding and help the SME understand project requirements.
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