Senior engineers section engineers project engineers what are they really do
are they just sitting in the office doing F*** *** and you are doing all the stuff on site
NO! guys in today's video i'm gonna tell you about the duties and responsibilities of a
senior engineer so let's go my name is Greg and welcome to SITENG so what's the main duties of
senior engineers guys i'm going to start for the QA the quality assurance feeling of ITPs and all
that stuff and that's the one of the big ones the senior engineer going to be responsible for or
they're going to be project engineer or sometimes section engineer depending of the job size so when
we talk about the QA we mostly thinking about the rebar checking and all the stuff so that means
first of all the senior engineer have to know the drawings and have to know the drawings very well
as actually on-site there might not be level of contact for him to ask the question so he might
be actually the last point of contact for setting out and for site engineers so that would be the
main thing you need to know the drawings well and you need to keep an eye on the qa you need to keep
all the records very well and make sure everything is spot on really and as i said even if on some
jobs there might be site engineers taking a little bit of responsibility for the QA and all the stuff
senior engineer gonna be the one to keep an eye on ITP and making sure everything is collected
everything is agreed with the client before everything is constructed the second big thing for
senior engineer guys that's that's the ordering the rebar call-offs and all the stuff and this as
well coming back to the knowing of the drawings knowing the schedules and actually keep an eye
on every single bit as you can simply make a mistake there and that mistakes cost money time so
it's really big problem unlike setting out things obviously i'm not talking about a huge setting now
mistakes but most of stuff you can actually sort out on site and it's not big problem but imagine
you you actually miss to order something and you can hold all the jobs so that's really big problem
so guys coming back to call-offs uh i'm going to take maybe the pile cup that would be the
best example as i've seen actually many mistakes uh during the pilecaps ordering and it was in
terms of number of pile caps in terms of starter bars so you need to make sure you actually order
the amount of pile caps needed as you can have a look here for instance you're gonna actually see
the the members here so they're gonna show you the actual amount of the same pile cap on for all the
job but obviously you're not gonna be doing all the job at the same time so you might be actually
needed only three numbers of this and i actually heard the story that there was a like 20 or 30
numbers of the same pile cap coming while they needed only two numbers so that's the problem in
terms of logistics guys keeping all that still on site especially guys if you don't have a
much space on side this is a big problem the steel line you you don't want it no one wants to see the
steel line guys they still have to come in just be installed and concrete board and that's it that's
how it goes and especially guys in frames the ground holes and frame contractors so i'm going
to focus mostly on this so coming to the same pile caps guys again when you're ordering the steel for
them you need to make sure you're going to give a starter bars and in most cases the starter
bars are issued on the other drone so you have to remember this and you cannot miss this that gonna
be the big problem as well as if you don't have any steel just to put for the starter bars you
just done and obviously guys the same goes for the number of bars and all the stuff as i see on one
side they actually ordered by mistake they forgot to delete all this uh not needed at that time bars
and that all starter bars games on site so you can imagine that was actually middle of job so half of
the starter bars was already previously ordered installed and that's loads of steel now lying
useless so as you can see guys it's very stressful job as simple order can just kill you and it's
not like setting out you might think i know it's stressful i i have to admit that but actually guys
i trust me the senior engineering job and the senior engineering role is much more stressful
and i got another big thing it would be number three that would be temporary works and
that would be guys actually the job for the senior engineers as well to keep an eye on temporary wars
and this is sometimes between senior engineer and project manager he might be actually the
twc the temporary works coordinator but you're gonna be definitely the supervisor and you're
gonna be the one checking on site and making sure everything is done as per drawing and if
you're talking about the drawings guys often the drawings are missing we need to push for
the drawings to make sure we got latest drawings construction issue and everything is ready before
we pour so that's another big one we need to make sure with the client that client is happy
everything is signed and same story all the papers everything all records have to be kept by you in
the nice manner especially if you don't have some software like field view or you're not keeping all
the records on a site and all the stuff you need to keep them for yourself that's another big one
not to get lost in all this information and obviously guys senior engineering role is also
about keeping an eye on all the site engineers all setting out the engineers so you are actually
point of contact for all the people asking the questions so as you as a side engineer you're
marking the lines you're setting the levels that's your main job and if you got any questions or if
there is any big problem there you're actually coming to the senior engineer and ask him and
he's making the decision so that's another one you can see here that decision making especially
at the higher level at the more complex staff is actually by senior engineer so he keeps
everything in his head so that's why this is very stressful as well guys and i know you're
sometimes thinking that you're doing a main job on site but the senior engineer was a really
hard work guys obviously guys everyone wants to jump up the ladder and i encourage you actually
to go for the for the senior engineering role if you're doing site engineering for some time but i
just want you in this video actually to realise what are the main responsibilities what are the
main duties of senior engineers so it sometimes might be might be looking that it's it's not that
hard job you're running on site but it's actually many stuff to come here guys you need to make sure
about this drawing you know everything you need to keep a good contact with client you need to make
sure you got all the information actually coming before you're gonna construct anything guys and
then you're gonna actually pass the information on site to the site engineers to the setting of
the engineers so that's quite big responsibility but obviously i encourage you to jump up as you're
gonna be going as you're gonna be progressing your career you need to try it and especially if you're
going for project management that's the really good school they're really good experience to be
a senior engineer for sometimes especially that project managers trying to push as much as they
can on senior engineers so you're actually gonna have some project management experience while you
go so it's gonna be much easier for you to jump to the project management so i hope guys after this
video you're gonna actually clearly know what's the difference between see your engineer role
and the site engineer setting out the engineer position and obviously if you got any questions
leave the comment below guys and i'm gonna answer as soon as possible as always and just before i
end this video guys obviously as i always say it's all dependent on the job size and on the
project size on the company as well as you might be actually working as a site engineer doing loads
of style which would meant to be done by this by the senior engineer or you might be actually be
as a setting now engineer doing site engineering stuff or doing some QA checks and a little bit of
senior engineer work as well and also guys this is very dependent on the team you're working
with as i know some senior engineers project engineers which they really try to don't do
anything they try to push everything lower lower to senior engineer to setting out the engineers to
everyone they just compile the papers and they're trying to do all the job so i know people like
this i know also senior engineers who are very helpful who really try maybe to do sometimes too
much they shouldn't they actually maybe should put something to the lower level job but they
try to do everything themselves so if you guys work as a site engineer junior engineer or as
a setting out engineer please bear in mind that senior engineers have if they honestly actually
very busy and try try to understand try to help them really instead of trying pushing more and
more on them so guys i think that would be all in today's video i hope you enjoyed it and if
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