Automation and Control Engineer Review

Work with a small automation team within a much larger group of engineers from all different specialist like mechanical and electrical.

You do Level 4 HNC at the first year at Tameside college. Then progress to Level 5 at the Second year. There you learn from pneumatics, maths, project manegement, electrical principals, ect. Very academic based.

It depends of where you are based in the UK, overall its enjoyible and you do learn from all fields and work with great people that make your day to day quite varied on all forms of skills.

In terms of the structure, they dont explain to you how the years are planned or what units you will need to do, you have ask around a lot how does the learning from college applies for university

When at the job its an amazing plaze to work at as I have a trusting manger that has supported me and Im integrated well at the team. This is site dependent how your organisation is structured.

There isnt much information about this, you will find out as you go along. Teahcers and tutors are sometimes not very helpfull, so you have to be very independent. There is abrig group so sometimes reaching out to the advisor is not helpfull.

Unfortunately it doesnt meet the standard you are meant to know for work. Because you are in college for 1 year and then you do blocks for the rest of the three years. Which means that you are spected to have knowledge from that one year and apply it.

There are some if you will like, but with covid most of these have been cut of at work.

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altough sometimes is very uncordinated at college and other stuff, when you are on site working it is a very rewarding job and its challenging and new. You have to able to cope with pressure as there are many tasks to be done in a week, have to balence assigments

Understand its not an easy job, very demanding but have a positive attitude will help and dont complain when the work load its too high. learn as much as you can about PLCs before applying and control systems.