Estic Professional are currently looking for civil
engineers who have a minimum qualification of a degree in civil
engineering. We have vacancies for new graduates who do not have
any work experience on construction sites and we have vacancies
for graduate engineers who do have some work experience.
Language
Successful candidates will be required to have a basic understanding
of the English language in both the written and spoken forms. Candidates
are not required to be fluent in the language but must be able to
communicate effectively with those people that they will be working
with.
Safety
All construction projects in the United Kingdom operate a strict
code of Health and Safety. It is essential that engineers understand
the health and safety policy of the project. It is equally important
that they can implement this policy and advise their co-workers
of any unsafe practices that they see. All successful candidates
will be given basic safety training before they begin work and they
will be encouraged to attend more safety training courses at their
place of work, and outside their place of work, during the time
they spend working in the UK. All training courses will be paid
for by the employer and all successful candidates will receive their
full salary while attending any safety training.
Duties
Graduate engineers will report directly to a senior engineer or
section engineer who will have technical responsibility for a small
project or for one section of a large project. There will be many
times when the graduate engineer is in unfamiliar territory and
the language used on a construction project will be new, even to
a natural English speaker. The graduate will not be expected to
understand all these new terms and phrases but he or she will be
expected to learn them as they become more experienced. The graduate
engineer will have an important working relationship with his or
her manager who will be a more experienced engineer. This relationship
will be the key to developing the engineer’s personal and
technical competence. The graduate engineer’s academic training
should enable him or her to understand the technology used in the
construction industry and to learn his new role quickly and effectively.
The main responsibilities of graduate engineers
will be as follows:
1. Graduates will be required to read and interpret technical drawings
including layout drawings, plans, elevations and sections. Depending
on the particular project these drawings could include drawings
of foundations, drainage, road construction, reinforced concrete
structures, steel structures, architectural finishes and landscape
drawings.
2. The engineer should be able to appreciate the routes that mechanical
and electrical services will take through a project and how these
are represented on drawings. However the detail of these systems
is the responsibility of the mechanical and electrical engineers
and is not of concern to the civil engineer.
3. The engineers must be able to read and understand technical specifications
so that they can understand how the project is to be constructed.
These specifications may include steel reinforcement schedules,
drainage schedules, material specifications, etc.
4. The graduate engineer will be responsible for the setting out
the works to be constructed. This will be achieved using of optical
and electronic surveying instruments such as theodolites, EDM’s,
levels and laser instruments. Candidates will have an advantage
if they are familiar with the use of some of these types of instrument
but this is not essential. It is often the case that some training
is required for an engineer to operate an instrument for the first
time. It is very important that the engineer is familiar with the
mathematics required for accurate setting out such as co-ordinate
geometry [rectangular and polar co-ordinates] and basic trigonometry.
A good knowledge of circular and triangular geometry is helpful
but not essential as modern instruments normally rely on the use
of co-ordinate geometry. Guidance will be available from the senior
engineer or section engineer when necessary.
5. The graduate engineer will be required to keep a daily diary
of the work that he performs and the progress of the section of
the project that he is working on. These daily records will include
the labour resources used and the materials and equipment used each
day.
6. The engineer will sometimes need to take instructions from the
client’s representative on a project and ensure that any such
instructions are properly recorded. These activities will usually
be undertaken by the section engineer but the graduate should begin
to fulfil this role as their knowledge of a project develops.
7. The engineer will be expected to be IT literate [Information
Technology/Computers] and will be expected to be able to use common
software applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Engineers
who take up jobs in design offices will need to be able to use CAD
[Computer Aided Design]
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Contract of Employment
The successful candidates will be required to sign a Contract of
Employment with their employer. This contract will explain the terms
under which the engineer is employed. It will state the salary that
they will be paid and the other benefits that they will receive
such as paid holidays, the terms of payment that they will receive
if they are off sick and any other benefits that Estic Professional
is able to negotiate at the time.
The Contract of Employment will contain a grievance procedure which
must be followed if an engineer enters into a dispute with the employer.
It must be stressed that any disputes should be settled as early
as possible and at the lowest level possible within the employer’s
organisation. Estic Professional will be happy to provide free and
impartial advice to any engineers that we place in employment in
the event that they enter into a dispute with their employer.
Personal Equipment
The employer will provide the engineer with a safety helmet and
high visibility jacket which must be worn at all times when on site.
The engineer must provide his own steel toecap boots which must
also be worn on site. The engineer will be expected to provide his
own electronic calculator but all other office equipment and
stationery will be provided by the employer.
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