Student Engineer Review

Item: Student Engineer at Spirax Sarco
Rating: 3.5
Author: Anonymous

at Spirax Sarco

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

East Croydon

Review Submitted: November 2024

Overall Rating

3.5 /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!

2/5 - Overview of Role

3.3/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

3.8/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

creating budget quotes including technical information about heaters for customers
creating initial costings using in house software and calculation tools
contacting manufacturing sites for changes in material costs and manufacturing updates
overlooking electrical panel drawings for the initial budget quotations
emailing customers to advise their technical clarifications and advice on which products to buy
processing and logging in inquiries throughout the week on companies website
organising the folder and files to store all appropriate information

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Everything was overlooked by my line manager so I didnt have too much own responsibility

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?

developed my Microsoft excel skills and organisation skills and also developed my computing and technical knowledge skills

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

3/5

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?

3/5

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?

I got help whenever I asked for it and our HR manager had weekly catch up sessions which was useful

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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

quite a chill office, only came into office twice a week and the rest was working from home, It was a shared office space and the lights above me werent working for 6 months so it was a bit dark as natural light didnt flow into the room