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Mott MacDonald

Carbon Management Consultant Review

at Mott MacDonald

Internship (1 Month+)

Environmental Science

Bristol

Review Submitted: October 2022

Overall Rating

4.8 /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!

5/5 - Overview of Role
4.8/5 - Skills Development
5/5 - Support and Guidance
4.5/5 - Company Culture
5/5 - Overall Experience
5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- Microsoft team meetings to allocate projects, discuss plans and the progress made towards project goals.
- 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?
- In charge of collating evidence from a series of projects across the company to demonstrate the companies adherence to verification standards.
- 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
5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- Have improved my communication skills, through delivering presentations and communicating my plans to efficiently complete projects.
- 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.
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
4/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- Issues with technology were common, but my manager helped me go through the process of contact HR and IT for help.
- 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.
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?
- Daily team discussions, and everyone was keen to introduce themselves to you upon your arrival at the company.
- 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.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
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 thoroughly enjoyed the range of tasks I was able to carry out.
- 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.
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 Mott MacDonald
5/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Mott MacDonald to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Mott MacDonald
- Leave yourself plenty of time to complete the initial application.
- 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!
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