FW Graduates - Process Engineering

Daniel joined FW’s Project and Document Control Department in September 1997 after graduating from UWE Bristol. After completing his rotational training placements in a variety of project and departmental functions Daniel was assigned to work for Exxon. This ‘secondment‘ lasted a year, and involved extensive travel between Exxon’s offices in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. Daniel has since worked as a planning engineer on the design phase of a pharmaceutical plant which is currently undergoing construction in Singapore.

" Foster Wheeler is a large company operating in a dynamic marketplace where new and different opportunities continually present themselves. This, together with the variety, and constant change offered by project based work, were the main reasons for joining FW. In particular the project control discipline allows the individual to understand overall project execution and strategy from a ‘crows nest’ position."

After graduating from Warwick University with a BEng in Manufacturing and Management, Kay was attracted to the career development and travel opportunities Foster Wheeler could offer. After joining the company in the 2007 graduate intake, she is about to start a company-sponsored NVQ in Project Control.

Kay's first placement was on a large refinery project on the project control team, dealing with the flow of documentation and ensuring that its quality was up to Foster Wheeler's standards. She says, "It was a good insight into the importance of even the smallest details and gave me more of an understanding of how projects and other departments work."

Following on from this Kay spent four months in planning and four months in cost control. "I felt that the natural progression from document control to planning to cost control enabled me to gain more understanding of how departments came together on a project. Seeing how project schedules were put together, learning to use the programmes for planning and seeing the effects of different costs on the project were invaluable. Utilising the things I learnt in planning and document control helped me understand how and why things were done in cost control."

" Learning new things and meeting new people have really helped me settle in to Foster Wheeler. Everyone here is helpful and friendly. All of the people I have worked with have been keen to pass on their experience and specialist knowledge, and have encouraged me to take challenges head-on."