Civil Engineering Jobs

Project Resource specialises in supplying professional workers to the Civil Engineering industry. Project Resource is a recruitment specialist that supplies the whole lifecycle of white collar workers to the Civil Engineering, as well as the Construction and Infrastructure industries.

Civil Engineering is a Professional Engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.

The Civil Engineer

Civil Engineers typically possess an academic degree with a major in civil engineering. The length of study for such a degree is usually three to five years and the completed degree is usually designated as a Bachelor of Engineering, though some universities designate the degree as a Bachelor of Science. The degree generally includes units covering physics, mathematics, project management, design and specific topics in Civil Engineering. Initially such topics cover most, if not all, of the sub-disciplines of civil engineering. Students then choose to specialise in one or more sub-disciplines towards the end of the degree.

In most countries, a Bachelor's degree in engineering represents the first step towards professional certification and the degree program itself is certified by a professional body. After completing a certified degree program the engineer must satisfy a range of requirements (including work experience and exam requirements) before being certified. Once certified, the engineer is designated the title of Professional Engineer (in the United States, Canada and South Africa), Chartered Engineer (in most Commonwealth countries), Chartered Professional Engineer (in Australia and New Zealand), or European Engineer (in much of the European Union). There are international engineering agreements between relevant professional bodies which are designed to allow engineers to practice across international borders.

Civil Engineering Professions

There are many career paths for civil engineers. Most engineering graduates start with jobs of low responsibility, and as they prove their competence, they are given more and more responsible tasks, but within each subfield of Civil Engineering, and even within different segments of the market within each branch, the details of a career path can vary.

Types of Civil Engineering

As Civil Engineering is vast, Project Resource focus on the following:

Construction Engineering

Construction Engineering involves planning and execution of the designs from transportation, site development, hydraulic, environmental, structural and geotechnical engineers.

Coastal Engineering

Coastal Engineering is concerned with managing coastal areas, including sea defence and coastal protection/ management.

Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering deals with the treatment of chemical, biological, and/or thermal waste, the purification of water and air, and the remediation of contaminated sites, due to prior waste disposal or accidental contamination.

Structural Engineering

Structural Engineering is concerned with the structural design and structural analysis of buildings, bridges, towers, flyovers, tunnels, off shore structures like oil and gas fields in the sea, and other structures.

Transportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering is concerned with moving people and goods efficiently, safely.  This involves specifying, designing, constructing, and maintaining transportation infrastructure which includes streets, canals, highways, rail systems, airports, ports, and mass transit. It includes areas such as transportation design, transportation planning, traffic engineering, some aspects of urban engineering, queuing theory, pavement engineering, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), and infrastructure management.

Urban Engineering

Urban Engineering is concerned with urban infrastructure. This involves specifying, designing, constructing, and maintaining streets, sidewalks, water supply networks, sewers, street lighting, municipal solid waste management and disposal, storage depots for various bulk materials used for maintenance and public works (salt, sand, etc), public parks and bicycle paths. In the case of underground utility networks, it may also include the civil portion (conduits and access chambers) of the local distribution networks of electrical and telecommunications services.