Job Responsibilities

• Establishing control systems to ensure efficient functioning of structures as well as safety and environmental protection
• Advising on and designing structures such as bridges, dams, docks, roads, airports, railways, canals, pipelines, waste-disposal and flood-control systems, and industrial and other large buildings
• Organising and directing maintenance and repair of existing civil engineering structures
• Determining and specifying construction methods, materials and quality standards, and directing construction work
• Analyzing the behaviour of soil and rock when placed under pressure by proposed structures and designing structural foundations
• Conducting research and developing new or improved theories and methods related to civil engineering
• Analyzing the stability of structures and testing the behaviour and durability of materials used in their construction