What’s involved in the role?
A civil engineer is involved in the design and management of construction projects.
Responsibilities (some of which may include):
- Working alongside clients to plan projects
- Creating blueprints
- Evaluating sites for risks to the environment
- Analysing surveys
- Writing reports and preparing bids
- Testing and mapping data using software
Typical salaries for qualified individuals:
Starting: £24,000
Experienced: £25,000 - £45,000
Senior: £50,000 - £80,000
Skills required:
- Project management skills
- Numerical and IT skills
- Ability to explain designs to a range of people
- Ability to analyse data
Types of employers:
- Contractors and consultancies within the construction industry
- Engineering companies
- Local authorities, government and environmental organisations
What’s involved in the role?
Working within a building company or specialist subcontractor, you’ll be involved in managing the construction process.
Responsibilities (some of which may include):
- Reviewing construction plans with surveyors, architects and engineers
- Managing and monitoring of costs, staff, progress and materials
Typical salaries for qualified individuals:
Starting: £27,000 - £33,000
Experienced: £35,000 - £50,000
Senior: £60,000+
Skills required:
- Ability to lead a team
- Project management skills
- Numeracy and IT skills
What’s involved in the role:
Roles in the police, security, risk management or criminal justice are concerned with protecting the public.
Responsibilities (as a police officer, some of which may include):
- Patrolling the community, keeping peace and enforcing legislation
- Responding to calls and requests from the public to provide assistance at incidents
- Carrying out interviews and taking statements from those involved in a crime
- Conducting arrests
- Gathering evidence and intelligence, submitting crime reports, testifying in court
Typical salaries for qualified individuals:
Police constables starting: £19,383 - £22,962
Experienced (at the top of the scale): £37,254
Sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors: £36,885 - £55,005
Skills required:
- Effective communication skills
- Confident and calm manner
- Problem solving abilities
- Honesty, integrity and resilience
- Ability to work as part of a team
Types of employers:
Police forces, transport police, Ministry of Defence Police.
What’s involved in the role?
A quantity surveyor manages the costs relating to building and civil engineering projects. One of the main purposes of the role is to minimise the costs of a project while maintaining the standards and quality required for the build.
Responsibilities (some of which may include):
- Helping to establish a client’s requirements
- Preparing contracts and tenders
- Writing progress reports
- Analysing costs for repair and maintenance work
- Managing the workload of subcontractors
- Performing risk management and cost control
- Valuing work and arranging payment
Typical salaries for qualified individuals:
Starting: £20,000 - £30,000
Senior: £45,000 - £65,000
Skills required:
- Problem solving skills
- Good numeracy and financial management skills
- Ability to negotiate
- Understanding of building and construction technology and processes as well as legal and business matters
- Ability to work well in a team
- Methodical
- Excellent written and oral communication to write reports and relay complex information
Types of employers:
- Architects
- Housing associations and property developers
- Local authorities
- Commercial businesses
- Engineering companies
