1. Introduction about yourself
My name is Darwin Peczek and I am an undergraduate at UNSW studying Civil Engineering.
2. How was your experience working with our company?
It was a very rewarding experience to learn about how exactly a building idea goes from conceptualisation to completion; you will learn and become involved with this at Swars from a project management perspective.
3. Tell us more about your internship
Work consisted of tendering and management of private projects.
Tenders will involve the interpretation and creation of tender documents that are an essential part of most engineering firms. Within the private projects you will learn about all the steps that are taken by architects, design engineers, councils, clients and so on to complete a building, demolition or refurbishment project. You will also go to sites to complete inspections.
4. What would you advise other student who are looking for internships?
Look and apply for everything, go to career expos meet people and talk to them. It can be a challenge sending cold emails so try, try, try to talk to people directly.
Once you get an internship make the most out of it and work with a high standing personal responsibility that represents yourself. If you make the most out of it it can be a really great thing.
Period of intern: 05/12/2016 – 05/02/2017