• Question: What has been your best achievement? Best success?

    Asked by branflakes123 to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by missalice.
    • Photo: James Vokes

      James Vokes answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      My best achievement so far was getting the job. I had to attend an assessment day which was like a day long interview and then a week later I was asked if I wanted the job.

    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hello Branflakes123,

      My best achievement was probably getting the job i currently have – The airplanes i currently work with are owned by The United Arab Emirates Government so i had to demonstrate my skills to them so they could see i was good at the job – I got the job so they must have liked what they saw!!

    • Photo: Ivanka Brown

      Ivanka Brown answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I think the best achievement was to know my safety legislation so well that I had to contradict the senior managers in two divisions in my company and a safety specialist in another. It was mainly to do with requirements to pass on information to the first people to start work on our site, so not a design decision, but I was proud that I managed to influence the project in such a big way.

      My favourite engineering achievement so far was to be given a reinforced soil wall to design which I had never done before and will no other engineer who had done it either available in my office at the time. I successfully researched the best method of analysis and liaised with the other engineers to provide an excellent solution that passed all checks first time.

    • Photo: Omar Mustufvi

      Omar Mustufvi answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I think my best achievement so far has been completing my degree and like the others getting a job! Another achievement I am proud of was designing a product at university which was good enough to be sold in the shops.

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 20 Mar 2012:

      I passed a major exam board in January which was a day long exam with a senior engineer asking me lots of really hard questions! I didn’t just pass, I smashed it so they will let me go and do another job (not on a ship) for a while which is very exciting also!

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