My New Job: Process Planning Engineer for BMW

I'm delighted to be able to write that i have secured a job as part of my year out of University for the next academic year. I have been offered a job by BMW Group to join them in Oxford as a process planning engineer, the role sounds fantastic and I have year long contract which begins on the 15th of August this year.

BMW Group Logo

I will over see the production of the mini and other BMW models in the BWM Group Plant, the main reason i'm so excited about this roll is that it means i get to oversea every stage of production for a modern day car. I will work with every department and try my hand at all sorts of areas and get experience with alot of things that i have never met before. Process Planning is not something that you are taught about at university, but the new experience and the new knowledge that comes with that can do nothing to harm my learning and should prove a brilliant experience.

If you want to know a bit about what a process planning engineer does, take a look at the link below:

http://www.ehow.com/about_6400270_job-description-planning-engineer.html

BMW have already been extremely helpful so far already sending me information about trusted landlords who own properties within walking distance of the plant, and all at a pretty reasonable price.
It was a rather odd start to my experience with them though, after I woke up at 9am one day to my phone ringing and my now boss was on the end of the phone claiming I had booked an interview with him.. I had not! It turned out they had a mix-up in HR and my details got handed to him by mistake. However I called back and arranged an interview for myself 2 days later; I felt that it didn't go to well compared with others that I'd had recently. However i was to be proven wrong  as only 3 days later I was offered the job.

In the next few months I will be looking to find a house in Oxford and will hopefully be metting up with the team of engineers i will be part of. Until then its back to doing my assignments and the deadlines are looming, as is the exam period...