Apprentice Planning Engineer Review

as a planning engineer my role is to organise outages and assign work orders for the year ahead to be handed off to the current year team to carry out.

In my time at grid I have developed my problem-solving abilities and teamwork greatly through several activities such as outward bounds and generally incorporating into an office has taught me many things.

I've greatly enjoyed the opportunities granted by this programme as I have traveled all over the country due to this job.

Over six months there has been a couple of times where rescheduling has occurred however due to how packed our time table is this is understandable and these were due to circumstances outside of Grid's control.

I receive all the support I feel I need and that has helped me to integrate into an office environment for the first time.

A large portion of my office hours can be diverted towards university work if I feel it is needed, I am given great freedom to ask anyone in the business if I need help on anything and have never been turned away.

My training is on-topic as it covers the hands on workings of the electrical system I would not normally be exposed to as a planner but I need to understand to properly plan.

There are many teams across grid that hose extra-curriculars like coffee mornings or Chinese new year celebrations, additionally there's a team called "new-net" that hosts many events for new hires to better incorporate into the business.

Yes

it's a good workplace to get into straight out of A-Levels like me and hires from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences so there's always something new you can learn.

Don't stress too much, the onboarding process is smooth even if you have no experience.