Graduate Engineer Review

Graduate Enginner on a 2 Year (4x6 months) graduate development apprenticeship, including the completion of a Level 7 qualification from Cranfield University.

Team working, leadership, planning, technical skills.

The enjoyment is okay based on it being an engineering role, however i do not feel like i presonally enjoy technical engineering.

It is well structured for placements, however it is hard to enact some of the extra-curricular opportunities that are advertised as being easily accessible to graduates.

I recieve a lot of support through individual staff, however not as much through the scheme directly.

Cranfield offer a decent qualification but it is evident that this is low priority to them, and it has since been scrapped for future graduate development.

Honestly, i dont think it has taught me anything that previous education offered, instead it forces me to spend time off-the job to complete assignments,

There are opportunities however they are all staff led, and not endorsed directly byt the company

No

I believe that BAE has a lot of learning to offer, however it is so large that pinpointing that learning and what will benefit an individual is becoming harder to identify.

Offer something different than the usual 'Engineer', the Company is in a state of change and although there is a lot of prestige, the comapny would directly benefit from endorsing more positively disruptive individuals.