Civil Engineers
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.
What you’d do
- Direct engineering activities, ensuring compliance with environmental, safety, or other governmental regulations.
- Manage and direct the construction, operations, or maintenance activities at project site.
- Inspect project sites to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.
- Compute load and grade requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors to determine design specifications.
- Plan and design transportation or hydraulic systems or structures, using computer-assisted design or drawing tools.
- Provide technical advice to industrial or managerial personnel regarding design, construction, program modifications, or structural repairs.
- Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, or other topographical or geologic data.
- Direct or participate in surveying to lay out installations or establish reference points, grades, or elevations to guide construction.
Skills that matter
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Mathematics
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Civil Engineer
- Design Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- City Engineer
- County Engineer
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