• Question: What importance does your position have for the everyday person like me? :()

    Asked by megan7 to Jaz, Cathy, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by gracehogben, spikemcguire.
    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hi Megan

      My position is all about everyday people. There are over 30,000 everyday people that work in our Debenhams store. My job is to get the engineering right so that they have energy needed to power the stores and sell products. Also the more energy we save, the lower our energy bill and the cheaper our products for everyday people.

      As cathy will soon tell you – her job means all the lights stay on in the UK – i think thats a very important job 🙂

      Jaz

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hi Megan

      Almost everyone uses electricity from the electricity network – it’s there when we press a light switch, pumps water to our homes and charges our mobiles!
      Without electricity coming into houses and industry the country would grind to a halt!
      That’s where my job comes in – to make sure that if that situation happens, it’s not long-term and things can get up and running quickly!
      I hope it never happens, but there’s a lot of uncertainty around the future of electricity supplies so its a topic that should be something people are talking about!

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Hi Megan,

      Every morning you will have a shower, use the toilet, and brush your teeth. My job as an engineers help to ensure that you have sufficient water to use for these daily activities and that the waste water is taken away for safe treatment afterwards.
      Imagine trying to go for a day without using water.

      Mark

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Every building you live or study in- your home, school, offices, hospitals, train stations, all of them, stand up and are safe because of engineers like me 🙂

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      Regulations relating to fire safety dictate so much about the buildings you live it. From the size of the windows, to the width of the stairways and the types of construction materials. You probably don’t notice the influence, but it is all around you. Thats what I work on so it’s move to have the inside knowledge of why something was designed in a specific way to make it work well if there is a fire.

      This is the same for most engineering – unless you look for it you don’t notice it but your life would be very difficult without the behind-the-scenes engineering.

      Rory

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