Career Opportunities in Civil Engineering

In these slides, I have given a brief about the entry-level and mid-level jobs in civil engineering along with the government exams for the same, followed by 2 emerging entry-level jobs in this domain.

1. Career Opportunities
in Civil Engineering
Dr. Rohan Dasgupta
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
AI’s Kalsekar Technical Campus
New Panvel

2. Career
●the job or series of jobs that you do during your
working life, especially if you continue to get better
jobs and earn more money (Ref: Cambridge Dictionary)
●a profession for which one trains and which is
undertaken as a permanent calling (Ref: Marriam-Webster
Dictionary)
●a series of jobs in a specific area of work that usually
involves more responsibility over time (Ref: Oxford
Dictionary)

3. Career Opportunities
Job or Entrepreneurship?

4. Jobs - Types
●Entry level jobs - fresh graduates with no experience
●Mid level jobs - graduates / post-graduates with 2-3 years experience
●Senior level jobs - post-graduates with 5-8 years experience
●Managerial jobs - operations manager, team leader etc.
●Executive level jobs - CEO, CFO, COO etc.

5. Entry Level Jobs - Civil Engineering
●Site Engineer
●Jr. Engineer
●Quality Control / Quality Assurance Engineer
●Estimation & Billing Engineer
●Jr. Surveyor

6. Site Engineer
●Roles:
○to oversee day-to-day operations on construction sites,
○ensuring that projects are completed on time & within budget
●Responsibilities:
○supervising labor,
○managing materials,
○coordinating with contractors.

9. Jr. Engineer
●Roles:
○assist senior engineers in designing, planning, and executing
civil engineering projects
●Responsibilities:
○preparing drawings, estimates, and reports,
○conducting site visits

12. Quality Control / Quality Assurance Engineer
●Roles:
○ensure that the materials and workmanship on construction
projects meet the required standards
●Responsibilities:
○conducting tests
○preparing reports
○ensuring compliance with quality standards

16. Estimation & Billing Engineer
●Roles:
○calculate the costs of construction projects
○prepare bills for work completed
●Responsibilities:
○preparing cost estimates
○checking contractor bills
○managing project budgets

19. Surveyor
●Roles:
○conducting land surveys to gather data for planning and
designing construction projects
●Responsibilities:
○surveying land,
○preparing survey reports,
○using modern surveying tools like total station
○using modern surveying software like GPS, GIS, RS etc.

22. Entry Level Jobs - Civil Engineering
●Site Engineer
●Jr. Engineer
●Quality Control / Quality Assurance Engineer
●Estimation & Billing Engineer
●Jr. Surveyor
●Design Engineer - design & drawings of projects
●Planning Engineer - developing project schedules
●Jr. Structural Engineer - assist in structural design
●Jr. Environmental Engineer - work in WTP, STP etc.
●Project Coordinator - support project management team

23. Question:

The construction industry
in India is considered as:

a) organized sector
b) unorganized sector

24. Contacts

Communication

Computer Knowledge

25. Mid Level Jobs - Civil Engineering
●Structural Engineer
●Geotechnical Engineer
●Project Manager
●Environmental Engineer
●Transportation Engineer

26. Structural Engineering Firms

27. Geotechnical Engineering Firms

28. Project Management Firms

29. Government Exams for Civil Engineers
●UPSC - IES
●GATE
●SSC JE
●RRB SSE
●State AE/JE Exam

30. UPSC - IES
●UPSC - Union Public Service Commission
●IES - Indian Engineering Services
●Allocated as - Class 1 Officials
●Initial designation - Assistant executive officer
●Control public sector - Indian Railways, Power,
Telecommunications, Central Water Design, Defence
Administration of Engineers, and Central Engineering
Service

31. GATE
●GATE - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
●PSU - Public Sector Undertaking
●PSU that shortlist candidates based on GATE score -
NBCC, ONGC, BPCL, HPCL, NLC etc.
●Descriptive examination & technical interview follows

32. SSC JE
●SSC - Staff Selection Committee
●JE - Jr. Engineer
●Enrolled in - Group-B (non-gazetted) posts
●Pay - Rs 35,400 - Rs 1,12,400
●Departments that recruit through SSC JE - Military
Engineer Services (MES), Central Water Commission
(CWC), National Technical Research Organization
(NTRO), Border Road Organization (BRO) etc.

33. RRB SSE
●RRB - Railway Recruitment Board
●SSE - Staff Selection Exam
●Age limit - 20 - 34 years
●Procedure: Exam, medical test, document verification
●Appointed as - Jr. Engineer
●Pay - Rs 19,300 - Rs 34,800

34. State AE/JE Exam
●AE - Assistant Engineer
●JE - Junior Engineer
●Avg. jobs per year - 150

35. BIM Modeler
●BIM - Building Information Modelling
●Roles - Development of BIM models of structures
●Responsibilities - Creating 3D models of structures,
adding BIM layers to them, collaboration and clash
resolution
●Future - Integration with Augmented Reality (AR) and
Virtual Reality (VR)

37. Green Building Professional
●Roles - To design and assess the green features of
structures
●Responsibilities - Designing and implementation of
green building projects, carrying out green audits of
building and materials
●Future - Implementation of green features are going
to be mandatory for all new construction projects

39. Summary
●Entry Level Jobs
●Mid Level Jobs
●Govt. Exams for Civil Engineers
●New Jobs for Civil Engineers

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