Integration Engineer Review

Ensure that telematics elements of vehicles are integrated correctly into the larger vehicle architecture. This involves setting up vehicles, testing and validating new and existing services. Additionally supporting other elements of the business with telematics features, such as gathering data on internal fleets cars to feed back to fleet owners.

I have learnt little in term of academia over the first 4 years of the apprenticeship as the knowledge taught is not above A level standards. Although this is not the case on the job, where I have learnt various skills including coding in several languages and building vehicles by hand.

I enjoy the work element of the apprenticeship massively, the area is great for working, I feel like my opinion is valued and I feel I have alot of room to progress. Although while at university I find that the course is considerably less enjoyable due to the week intensive structure that was chosen over day release.

The program is well structured in some areas though requires further definition in many areas. The year by year break down is clear about when different parts of education happen which make planning ahead easy. The large draw back to this is it has been chosen that in the last year 3 large projects must be done which impacts time spent on the job just before the decision to rehire.

I receive alot of support of my employer. I have been provided ample time in work to do uni work as well as go on internal training courses to progress my soft skills. Additionally I am given money as part of the employee learning scheme to improve any skill external to work.

I have been provided with a large amount of support for my uni qualifications. I have been provided a tutor at uni who I can contact if I have any issues with the course. This cannot be said about the NVQ level four which is required as this appears to be a bolt on qualification.

I do not feel my job role is benefited by my qualification as the course is very generalised where as my role is specialised meaning that there is little cross over. The NVQ is vocational so is to do with my role but does not provide me new skill only records the ones I already have.

There are not many official opportunities for this at work, though work meetup at the pub and meals do happen. There is more opportunity to join groups and sport clubs while at uni as we are able to access any of the clubs while counting a student of Warwick uni

Yes

There is alot of opportunity to do most engineering roles within JLR, so whatever people are passionate about can be done. Also the pay is competitive enough that external from work you are not as bad off as a regular student. There is alot of transferable experiences that can bring you to be able to enter any other engineering job in the future.

Follow you instincts in the questions and interviews. Keep a level head and solve problems logically. Pick out a role that you are passionate about rather than what is best for your CV as you will progress much faster which in the long term will be better for your careers.