Education programmes of job
Nature of work
Road engineer is civil engineering career.He/she is the one who performs the studies related to the road projects and determine the best route of the road, and prepare the preliminary designs and engineering layouts for roads projects.The tasks assigned to the road engineer may be classified as follows:
►In the professional field:
- Studying the aerial photographs and the topographic plans that related to the project.
- Studying the different routes and the suitable alternatives of the road, choosing the best route and preparing the required preliminary designs to construct the road.
- Studying the available materials and specify its properties and choosing the suitable thing for the paving layers.
- Preparing the final plans for the project.
- Preparing specific bid conditions for the road projects, and studying them from technical and financial point of view.
- Evaluating the employee performance, determining training needs.
- Ensuring tools of the professional safety and health, and ensuring the suitable health conditions and improving the procedures.
- Teaching in universities and in technical institutes specifically in the road field and transportation in general.
Environment of work
- The road engineer works about 8 hours daily during the working days,except (or even during) the weekend, and he/she may have to work additional hours when there may be necessities to complete the project in a short period.
- The work place should be at office, if the work is studying projects, whereas the work place should be at the field, if his/her task is the implementation the project.
- He/she can work as a roadengineer in a group of engineers (especially in the office), where he/she has a boss at work, and may have assistant engineers to help him in monitoring and in the implementation of the project according to the required specifications. He/she needs field car for his transportation if the work is at the field, whereas he needs computer and engineering software if the work is at the office (studies).
- He/she is committedto international standards specifications to implement the jobs or to a specified technical specification for the project and work to accomplish it to ensure the quality performance according to the required specifications.
Professional life
- The road engineer may work alone or in group work whether in private or public sector. Often, he/she is the person in charge of the working group that he /she works with (His/her monthly salary as a starter in the public sector is about 20000 S.P).
- He/she may work alone through constructing his own establishment as engineering office or studying firm or special contracting firm or work as an employee in private or public firm.
- He/she may travel in those tasks required for job necessities; such as concluding contracts, importing machines and materials, or providing technical and consultation experiences.
- The professional pathwayfor the road engineer develops when he/she gains the practical and management experiencesthrough functional progresses as a manager of project or projects then to the bigger sections or fields in managing the firm or the establishment or even the ministry, that include planning tasks and putting the development programs, and cooperating with local or regional or international institutions or agencies.
- He/she may travel out or give expertise in his/her field or to attend related conferences or symposiums.
Sectors of careers
- Road engineer can perform his tasks within the following professional sectors:
- Companies in constructions, roads and airports maintenance.
- Technical services directorates and municipal councils.
- Road engineer may communicate with (or contribute in) the following academic fields:
- Civil engineering fields in general, and specialization in transportation engineering in specific.
- The road engineer can teach in the university and colleges in the road field especially and in the transportation in general.
Getting the job
Approaching this profession can be through the following:- Obtaining the BSc. degree in civil engineering (general civil) or may be a BSc. graduate in transportation section if there is a special department for the transportation in the faculty of civil engineering, or might have obtaineda graduate studies degreespecializing in transportation.
- He/sheshould have the knowledge in the following subjects (using computer software, programs such as MS office, AdobePhotoshop, Outlook, and some special computer software programs that related to the road projects such as VISSIM, Paramics, Aimsum, Picady, AutoDesk , AutoCAD, AutoTrack Arcady) and also conversant with the usage of the international standards in designing the roads such as AASHTO and the European system, good knowledge in the GIS and data management systems.
- Join the engineering syndicate and advance insteps in it such as trainee, innate,professional, consultant, since most agencies of the study or verification in most road projects stipulate to the engineer to have a consultant degree in the engineering syndicate as a prerequisite.
Skills
- Working efficiently in a multi specialty team and may be multi ethnic team and good knowledge of English and should be familiar with different work environment.
- Showing effective personal skills in the work environment through the ability to create the solutions and give invention ideas.
- Self learning and continuing to catch with the rapid and technical progress especially those related to the computer software programs, material and new technology in the road field, and the ability to transfer the knowledge and the skills in the field of specialty.
- The ability to put timetable, achieving the required work on time, and managing the time with high competence, and work according to the obligatory priority.
- Management of the tasks and the resources efficiently and effectively and possibility of development.
- Commitment with the professional standards, the moral professional, evaluates the performance of the workers, and work to raise their skills continuously.
- The ability cooperative work with the costumers and with other designers and contractors.
Sources and references
- Interior roster of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Aleppo-2012.
- Arab classification standards of profession-Arab Work Organization-2008.
- National Academic Reference Standards-Ministry of Higher Education-2012.
- Internet, Website - Job description format.
Summary
Road engineer is a professionin civil engineering field. A road engineer is the one who performs the studies related to the road projects and determine the best route of the road.The road certificate can be achieved by studying for five years in the civil engineering faculty during this period, the student is trained to study the projects and prepare the plans and perform the quality experiments in the labs and prepare the time plan to implement the projects.