Luca Wharton

Motivated and adaptable student with hands-on experience across engineering, finance, and customer service through placements at British Airways and the Bank of England. Proven ability to work in teams, communicate effectively, and quickly learn new systems and tasks. Confident in using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other key tools to present and analyse data.

Recognised for leadership in school settings and resilience in overcoming challenges such as dyslexia. Passionate about problem-solving, supporting others, and continuously learning.

Work Placement - British Airways

(2023-07-17 - 2023-07-17)

• Assisted fixing and repairing a plane engine.
• Helped a team of engineers go on a fuel run to test whether the plane can take off.
• Tested a multi-million-pound flight simulator.
• Cleaned a plane to allow it to be ready for passengers to board.
• Assisted in changing the fuel on a plane.

Work Placement - Bank of England

(2023-06-30 - 2025-06-30)

• Learning about the role of the Bank of England and the operations it uses to support the wider economy.
• Learning about the role of the operations department at the Bank of England.
• Collating data and information and presenting it in a way that is easy to understand.
• How to use excel to manipulate data-pivot tables and charts, VLOOKUP's, sorting and filtering and macros.
• How to prioritise tasks using deadlines and values.

Hospitality Staff - Sidcup Recreation Club

(2022-11 - 2022-11)

• Served meals and drinks with professionalism and skill, maintaining high presentation and quality standards.
• Delivered food and drinks from the kitchen to respective tables to meet timely expectations.
• Provided friendly, courteous service, maximising positive customer satisfaction ratings.
• Thoroughly cleaned kitchen utensils, cookware, glassware and serving dishes, maintaining faultless hygiene and presentation standards.
• Cleared table to remove dirty utensils and leftover food items.
• Carried out regular rubbish removal, mopping and sweeping, maintaining clean kitchen environments throughout service shifts.
• Attentively took orders, guiding customers on menu choices, allergy advice and chef recommendations.

Student Leadership & Events Assistant - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

• Was selected to represent Hurstmere for a year six induction day providing a tour, answering various questions and provided coaching in sporting activities.
• In Hurst primary held a charity stool for children in need, working as a team to come up with an idea for an enterprise, sourced stock, created promotional material, agreed on pricing and sold stock and hosted the game and made a total of over £100 profit and donated it all to the charity.
• In Hurst Primary school was elected to be yellow house captain after speaking in front of whole year to explain why they should vote, under the role of house captain went down into reception and helped them read their books and supported the teachers by helping tour the parents round the school.
• During time at Blackfen was selected to help and manage some of the events during the KS3 and KS4 sports day.

GCSE - English Language - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - English Literature - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - Maths - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - Business - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - PE - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - Geography - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form

GCSE - Combined Science - Hurst School / Hurstmere School / Blackfen sixth form