Carbon Management Consultant Review
at Mott MacDonald
Internship (1 Month+)
Environmental Science
Bristol
Review Submitted: October 2022
Overall Rating
4.8 /5
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Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- Calculating emission factors for materials to enable projects to proceed in a sustainable and low carbon way.
- Researching initiatives that could help the company reach internal emission targets. - Outlining plans to help clients reach net zero.
- Collating evidence of the most successful low carbon projects carried out within the company.
- Doing presentations about research on low carbon schemes.
- Bidding for projects alongside other companies, through the creation of proposals and evidencing the skills within the company to successfully carry out the work.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Allowed to contribute to projects with very tight deadlines.
- Allowed to work independently on research tasks and conduct presentations by myself.
- Was left responsible for managing my time during the week across multiple projects.
- Carried out checks to a variety of reports within the team to ensure it met specifications.
- Was the main contributor to many of the teams projects.
- Wasn't a huge choice in which tasks I was able to do at a specific time.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- Have improved my problem solving skills, having a diverse series of tasks and unique challenges to overcome.
- Developed an eye for detail, with extensive proof-reading required for my own work, and also when checking team members reports.
- Have improved my understanding of excel commands and formulas.
- Developed research skills, when populating presentations & collating information for reports.
- Improved time-management, performing tasks for multiple projects everyday.
- Improved my team-working skills, working with a diverse group of people on different projects.
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Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- Where appropriate during projects I was sent links to information about the task.
- There was always someone available to request help from on teams or emails.
- Daily catchups to raise concerns and request support on a task.
- Usually had multiple people working on each stage of the project so could share workload.
- My manager had regular catchups to check on my wellbeing and the work I'd like to carry out.
- Communication was excellent from the whole team, and I was always updated on any new resource that was being created.
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Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- Regular socials to get to know knew people.
- On first day allocated buddies to eat lunch with.
- Employees got along very well with each other, and a large group eats lunch together.
- Subsidised events run by the company to support team-building.
- A quick info message about yourself distributed via email upon starting at the company to help people get to know each other.
- Trips offered to other offices across the company to get to know your employees from elsewhere.
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Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- I liked the social and environmental benefits I was able to achieve within my role.
- I enjoyed the responsibility I was given to complete a presentation from start to finish and present to my team.
- The vibe within my team and around the office was great.
- Overly given administrative tasks, especially initially.
- Given opportunity to work with other teams outside my exact role which was fantastic.
- Able to develop my skills and experience building my confidence in my career.
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Future Career Prospects
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Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Mott MacDonald to a friend?
What advice would you give to others applying to Mott MacDonald
- Make sure you are not on holiday when you get the test after initial application has been seen.
- Brush up on your maths skills beforehand.
- Make sure you are confident in using Microsoft teams.
- Dive into as many different types of tasks as you can, ask to work on projects for different teams.
- Make sure you are familiar with your job brief at the interview.
- Relax, everyone is very friendly and welcoming!