This week my replacement started who is a process engineer fresh out of university. Like myself, they did a year's placement with the company whilst on their degree, so hopefully the transition will be a slightly smoother one than expected for a complete newbie.
As I move job roles and am relocated at the end of the month, I now have around 2 weeks to hand over all of the tasks that I perform for my everyday job, and then the projects that I have either to complete (or start in some cases!).
So, in a nutshell, that is pretty much my job for the next fortnight. I have a few outstanding things to sign-off on that I shan't be handing over; enough to keep me busy I suppose. After the handover I have around 1 week to get packed and moved to another part of the world (before you think it's exotic, think again: this place is windy, wet and cold with the odd day of moderate sunshine!!!)
Although this sounds a lot it's really not that bad. A moving company do all the hard work whilst I supervise and make the tea ( a process that involves heat transfer, diffusion, thermo.....so i'm sure i'll learn something!) Don't worry, not all chemical engineers are as boring as me!!!
Once I have completed the move by the end of September I am away on a 2 week conference run by the company for graduates. So it's off to a sunny climate to chill-out and take-5 on the company: YEAH RIGHT!!! No, this is conference that promotes diversity and inclusion (as graduates from all over the company's global operations attend), cross-business awareness (graduates are multidisciplines and course runs through from exploration, production, to marketing sales etc.) Feedback I have had from other graduates is that this is a great event but very energy consuming.
After I return to the new abode I'll be starting the new job and ready to do a new post. By then I can feed back on my conference and give you some insight to my new role. Until then......
