Engineering Graduate, Engineering at Heathrow Airport Limited

The following is a Graduate Review for Heathrow Airport Limited.

Heathrow Airport Limited scores 4.3/5 based on 29 reviews.

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

Getting to work with a variety of engineering systems and working with so many different people. Everyone is really willing to share their knowledge.

Having your 'office' be the entire airport. I have a lot of freedom to move around: I can work independently in the business centre, in the terminals or in different engineering offices dotted around the airport.

I love the opportunities at Heathrow that lie outside of normal 'work'. For example: volunteering in the local community (planting trees, being a reading/maths buddy at a primary school), organising the annual Midnight Marathon event on the runway, or pretending to be passengers in exercises where emergency services practice responding to incidents and evacuations.

Worst

Having been on the graduate programme for under 6 months, so far the majority of that time has been dedicated to learning and spending time moving around many different departments. While it's been fun, important and beneficial to gain an overview of how all of engineering at the airport works, it means there have been some 'slower' days with limited work to get myself stuck into. But this is now starting to build up as I'm based in a specific department.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £27,000 - £29,000

Current salary: £27,000 - £29,000

What hours do you actually work, on average?

Start: 08:00

Finish: 16:00

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

Showcase your people skills: great communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with people (and recognise the importance of that), and the emotional intelligence to understand how changes affect others. No project at Heathrow is isolated to one department or discipline: hence, a lot of communication and collaboration is required.

Do you have any interview tips?

In the interviews, scenario-based questions were asked. Things to consider for these questions are: What skills would you use? What qualities would make you a great leader here? Who you would talk to? Who would it affect? Are there any risk or safety elements to consider? Cost, budget, time?