Our eldest daughter has started working in England....read her stories....fascinating...
"Working with Rolls Royce is very eye opening. Everyone is very competent. Nobody is a slacker. And Rolls Royce is very short handed at the moment.
I've been placed in the Customer Business Team-Serve and Support of the Commercial Division. The Rolls Royce site is incredibly large, and the Civil Airlines department has a large building all to itself.l I travel to work for free by walking to the railway station and taking the Rolls Royce shuttle bus.
What my team does is, it liaises with the smaller airlines, from offer, to negotiations, to signing of the contract. Then it manages the accounts, trying to minimise risk throughout the way. In the three days I've been working, I've sat in on two 3 hour conference calls negotiating contracts for Xia Men Airlines (China) and Transaero (Russian). I've been able to witness the negotiation process first hand.
I've also sat in on numerous meetings of all kinds, ranging from meetings about internal organisation, to meetings about kickstarting campaigns to win tenders from an airline in Nepal.
My line manager is a woman named Jo and she's been bringing me around with her. She's quite an expert at this negotiation thing. She also travels a lot because negotiation requires face to face time.
My colleagues are all very hardworking people. Did you know that in the three days I've been there, I've never had a proper lunch break? I've been just too busy so often, I've been forced to just grabbed a sandwich and eat at my desk while working. Jo never has a lunch break either. And neither do my colleagues.
I start work at 8 am, as do many of my colleagues. If I come in early, I can leave at 4:30.
Anyway, they are all so busy, they really need more people but I guess it's a cost question. Rolls Royce's order book stands at GBP 1.8 billion I think, and the business is set to double in the next decade. This is based on the actual orders already in the order book, not speculation.
I've been assigned quite a heavy task seeing as I've just begun. I have to do this thing called a Commercial Order Instruction which requires me to read a contract (super thick contract) and extract the deviations from the precedent. The contract is a Product Agreement with Cebu Airlines which Jo concluded a few days ago. It's normally Jo's job but she gave it to me. So interns here don't just do office boy work.
I've visited the Repair and Overhaul centre and seen lots of engines. And was given a tour of the Heritage Centre which is like a museum with all the engines RR ever made. They are particularly proud of their Merlin which was the engine of the P-51 Mustang, a superb fighter plane during WWII.
RR has tons of employees so Derby is like RR town. I think it really feeds the economy.
The main competition right now is General Electric.
As for my office, it's open plan. Even the VPs and Senior VPS sit in the cubicles in this open plan office. It's designed to be accessible. The Sr VP gave the whole office a pep talk yesterday and he did it in a very humble way. Can see why he's a Sr VP.
Anyway, at my job, I'm not bound to my desk. Always running around for meetings and conference calls so it's not boring. Only feel like sleeping in the meetings which I don't understand"
I've been placed in the Customer Business Team-Serve and Support of the Commercial Division. The Rolls Royce site is incredibly large, and the Civil Airlines department has a large building all to itself.l I travel to work for free by walking to the railway station and taking the Rolls Royce shuttle bus.
What my team does is, it liaises with the smaller airlines, from offer, to negotiations, to signing of the contract. Then it manages the accounts, trying to minimise risk throughout the way. In the three days I've been working, I've sat in on two 3 hour conference calls negotiating contracts for Xia Men Airlines (China) and Transaero (Russian). I've been able to witness the negotiation process first hand.
I've also sat in on numerous meetings of all kinds, ranging from meetings about internal organisation, to meetings about kickstarting campaigns to win tenders from an airline in Nepal.
My line manager is a woman named Jo and she's been bringing me around with her. She's quite an expert at this negotiation thing. She also travels a lot because negotiation requires face to face time.
My colleagues are all very hardworking people. Did you know that in the three days I've been there, I've never had a proper lunch break? I've been just too busy so often, I've been forced to just grabbed a sandwich and eat at my desk while working. Jo never has a lunch break either. And neither do my colleagues.
I start work at 8 am, as do many of my colleagues. If I come in early, I can leave at 4:30.
Anyway, they are all so busy, they really need more people but I guess it's a cost question. Rolls Royce's order book stands at GBP 1.8 billion I think, and the business is set to double in the next decade. This is based on the actual orders already in the order book, not speculation.
I've been assigned quite a heavy task seeing as I've just begun. I have to do this thing called a Commercial Order Instruction which requires me to read a contract (super thick contract) and extract the deviations from the precedent. The contract is a Product Agreement with Cebu Airlines which Jo concluded a few days ago. It's normally Jo's job but she gave it to me. So interns here don't just do office boy work.
I've visited the Repair and Overhaul centre and seen lots of engines. And was given a tour of the Heritage Centre which is like a museum with all the engines RR ever made. They are particularly proud of their Merlin which was the engine of the P-51 Mustang, a superb fighter plane during WWII.
RR has tons of employees so Derby is like RR town. I think it really feeds the economy.
The main competition right now is General Electric.
As for my office, it's open plan. Even the VPs and Senior VPS sit in the cubicles in this open plan office. It's designed to be accessible. The Sr VP gave the whole office a pep talk yesterday and he did it in a very humble way. Can see why he's a Sr VP.
Anyway, at my job, I'm not bound to my desk. Always running around for meetings and conference calls so it's not boring. Only feel like sleeping in the meetings which I don't understand"
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