Mechanical Project Coordinator Review

Responsibilities include the specification of machinery, co-ordination of activities within internal teams and external partners, project planning and execution, project reporting, management reporting, and budget tracking and reporting. My principle Accountabilities have included the completion of technology feasibility studies, specification & design of new manufacturing technologies & processes. As well as this I have worked on the qualification of new processes within the development and manufacturing environment and helped to provide technical documentation to support new manufacturing processes.

I was given lots of responsibility during my time at British American Tobacco. This included taking ownership over design projects and delivering key engineering components from start to finish. I also was given the responsibility of working with internal as well as external stakeholders to further the business and discuss key commercial situations and solutions. Finally, I was given opportunity to lead various projects and take them from simple concepts all the way to a final viable solution

I have improved my regular reporting and updating of project plans dashboards and worked on my overall project planning. I have also developed skills linked to tracking, managing and reporting project budgets and/or assets. Following on, I have been Liaising with technical & non-technical stakeholders and reviewed the technology landscape to enable the development of future technology platforms. Finally I have been able to develop skills relating to Identification & evaluation of management / technology tools to optimise any development processes.

I received lots of guidance and training opportunities during my placement at BAT. This included a mentor scheme which put us into contact with a high level person within the company to lead us through and give us any required advice. As well as this, students were expected to deliver a conference style technical poster presentation to the whole of the Southampton sight. Numerous valuable skills were developed during this exercise as well as presentation and networking skills.

The company culture is very much one of encouraging personal commitment and responsibility, which attracts a skilled and diverse group of people. People are always open to receiving questions and providing insight into any aspects of the company that you may be interested in. You are always being pushed to work and to develop to the highest of our ability and which leads you to producing work way beyond what you previously though would be possible.

I really enjoyed my placement and would highly recommend any one who would like to consider applying to BAT. I really feel as though I have developed as an employee but also as person. I am able to communicate more effectively with others and I can see myself really coming back to work for BAT in the future. Most of all BAT is an extremely inviting company which really takes care of i's employees.

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