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Graduate Engineer Development

A 90-day start, a mentor, an evidence log against the registration standard, rotations and site exposure, real technical depth and a dated route to the professional review.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Graduate Engineer Development, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🔧 Engineering Practice

Graduate Engineer Development

Growing through the first years as an engineer: rotations, a mentor, competence records, site exposure, technical depth and preparing for professional registration.

  1. First 90 days plan as a graduate engineer
  2. Choosing the professional institution to join
  3. Mapping the registration competence standard
  4. Finding a mentor outside your reporting line
  5. Competence evidence log set-up
  6. Two-year personal development plan
  7. Site safety readiness before your first visit
  8. Graduate rotation preferences and case
  9. Engineering notebook and personal filing system
  10. Weekly engineering diary
  11. Monthly mentor conversations
  12. Development-focused one-to-ones with your manager
  13. Quarterly evidence review against the standard
  14. Technical reading queue for standards and journals
  15. CPD record kept current
  16. Monthly site visit habit
  17. Annual development review and plan refresh
  18. Rotation close-out review and handover
  19. Questions log for senior engineers
  20. Checking software output with hand calculations
  21. Reading P&IDs and general arrangement drawings
  22. Learning to navigate a design standard
  23. First calculation taken through independent checking
  24. Writing clear technical queries
  25. Learning the plant from operators and technicians
  26. Estimating your own hours and reporting progress
  27. Commercial awareness for young engineers
  28. Giving a technical talk to your team
  29. Choosing a technical specialism after rotations
  30. Further study decision, master's, part-time or none
  31. Mid-point gap analysis at eighteen months
  32. Targeted assignment to fill a competence gap
  33. Requesting a secondment or stretch placement
  34. Early-career salary and progression check
  35. Graduate probation or scheme assessment preparation
  36. First turnaround or field campaign as a graduate
  37. Professional review report and sponsors
  38. Professional review interview preparation
  39. Young engineers' conference or institution event
  40. Moving from graduate scheme to permanent role
  41. Final-year student graduate job applications
  42. Making the most of an industrial placement
  43. Final-year project as graduate evidence
  44. Graduate development in a small firm without a scheme
  45. Career changer entering engineering as a graduate
  46. Degree recognition for international graduates
  47. Leading a small technical package for the first time
  48. Mentoring the next graduate intake
  49. Writing your first technical paper or note
  50. Five-year technical depth plan after registration

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

First 90 days plan as a graduate engineer

New graduates are usually handed a desk, a login and a pile of procedures, and three months later still cannot say what they are accountable for. A written 30, 60 and 90 day plan agreed with your line manager turns the induction period into named outcomes: who you have met, which systems you can use, and the first piece of work you own end to end.

First tasks

  • Draft three outcomes each for day 30, day 60 and day 90 on one page
  • Book 30 minutes with your line manager to agree the plan
  • Ask for one small deliverable you can own from start to finish
  • Hold the day 90 review and record what changes next

Choosing the professional institution to join

Registration as a chartered or professional engineer usually runs through a licensed institution or a national engineering board, and picking the wrong one can mean a competence standard that does not fit your work. Comparing the two or three bodies that cover your discipline, your country and your employer's existing links lets you join once, at the graduate rate, and start logging evidence in the right format.

First tasks

  • List the institutions and boards that cover your discipline and country
  • Ask your line manager or HR which bodies the firm already supports
  • Compare graduate fees, mentoring and registration routes in one table
  • Apply for graduate membership of the body you chose

Mapping the registration competence standard

Every registration route is judged against a written competence standard, such as UK-SPEC in the United Kingdom, and most graduates first read it two years too late. Rewriting each competence in your own words, with an example of what it would look like in your actual job, shows you which experience to ask for from week one.

First tasks

  • Download the current edition of your body's competence standard
  • Rewrite each competence as one plain sentence with a job example
  • Mark the competences your current role is unlikely to give you
  • Walk through the map with your mentor and note their corrections

Make it yours.

Install Graduate Engineer Development, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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