Aerospace Engineer Review
by BAE Systems
Rating
-
Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.3
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at BAE Systems
- 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
Overview
Support Modelling and Data Engineer supporting the Typhoon and Hawk Aircraft through availability and reliability based modelling of components and systems. Predominantly based on Matlab software, but Excel and VBA coding also used. Placement included a lot of coding and mathematical modelling.
Skills
Coding skills, presentational skills, technical knowledge, developed interpersonal skills, financial skills, time management, stakeholder management, engineering knowledge
Responsibilities
I developed my own models and systems, I also managed to get some leadership experience during my time, presented my work to senior members of the organisation even at director level, models developed managed circa 100million 拢 worth of assets each week, so a lot of responsibility
Support & Guidance
Plenty from my actual team, less so from Early Careers
Culture
Slow, outdated and 'This has never been the way we have done it before' was the typical pushback you would receive. The company itself looks after you really well and the atmosphere as a result is a good one. The world of support is a really ageing demographic and so I was working day to day with 50-60 year olds looking to retire, as a 21 year old.
Your Impressions
I did enjoy it - but coming into the business I expected something more fast paced and technical specific, like Aerodynamics or Propulsion related. It is nothing of the sort. It is all excel based spreadsheet pushing and if you do not actively seek work you probably won't receive it, however if you ask for work it comes quick and heavy
Yes
Really read the job description and go for a specific role that directly mentions the areas/software you are interested in. If designing your own systems/ applying theory is a big thing for you then I would recommend to try and get into a testing/ design role in either future fighter or test and evaluation, if maths and coding is interesting to you, go into support.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering
North West
June 2025
