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Job Description
Key tasks of the job include:
- Managing parts of construction projects
- Overseeing building work
- Undertaking surveys
- Setting out sites and organizing facilities
- Supervising contracted staff
- Ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales
- Liaising with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff
- Checking and preparing site reports, designs and drawings
- Providing technical advice
- Problem solving
- Ordering and negotiating the price of materials
- Ensuring site safety
Key skills for site engineers
- Commercial awareness – an understanding of how your actions can affect profitability of a project
- Team working
- Technical skills
- An eye for detail
- Problem solving
- Management skills
Job Requirements
Qualifications and training required
- Bachelor degree: Mechanical Power Engineer
- To be a professionally qualified engineer you will need an accredited degree in construction, building, or civil/structural engineering.
- To study for a professional qualification while working for an employer.
- The professional institutions can provide lists of organisations that offer accredited training schemes.
- Relevant experience can be beneficial, although not essential.
- Many employers offer sponsorship, vacation work and 'year out' placements, which can provide valuable contacts and a useful insight into the profession.
