Civil Engineering has a vast array of roles, career, disciplines and responsibilities in the construction industry, but which one is right for you?

From planning to designing to quantity surveying to Contracts to many other fields, there's a role in civil engineering that's right for you. The following career profiles are widely used nowadays in construction projects are mentioned hereunder:-

Civil Engineering incorporates a broad range of different job roles.

Career profile:- Planning Engineer  

A role of planning engineer is to support the Project manager and project team with information to execute the project in time and within the budget allocated. Further, prepare cost and time overrun details, project tracking, cash flow statement, daily and monthly progress reports, tracking manpower, equipment and material mobilization and preparation of construction schedule with resources requirement. 

Career profile:- Contracts Engineer

A role of contracts engineer is to draft contractual letters, review tender documents, prepare an extension of time claims, formulation of extra variations and claims, compensation of delays damages, maintain contracts management information system (MIS), submission of variations & claims, manage correspondences, deals with clients and subcontractors and risk mitigation.
Related: Roles of a Contracts Engineer in a Construction Project?

Career profile:- Quantity Survey Engineer

A role of  Quantity Survey Engineer is to prepare cost estimation, client and subcontractors billing, quantity requirements,  payment tracking,  escalation of materials and other commodities, rate analysis for the new items, bill of quantities (BOQ), dealing and negotiating with the subcontractor.

Career profile:- Site Engineer

A role of site engineer is to calculate the quantities of material required to cast the structural member as per the site plan. Engaging manpower, prepare bar bending schedule(BBS), studying drawings, maintain the checklist of the executed works and preparation of progress reports. 

Career profile:- Quality assurance and quality control Engineer

A role of quality control engineer to looks after the strength of the material used in construction and tests all the materials before incorporating/cast them in the site and ensured that all the materials shall meet the specification and prepare the monthly and weekly compliance of tests reports and further submit them to the client. 

Training and qualifications 

The courses and training opportunities outlined below can help support and develop a career in the above field:-

Conclusion

We hope that you liked this brief article on the roles of Civil Engineer in the Construction industry and in our future posts, we will be discussing on each career and their duties which are required in construction site and offices. Please share this article with other civil engineers.