hi guys and welcome back to SITENG where you can see all interesting civil engineering and
site engineering stuff and in today's video guys we're going to talk about five things
you need to know before you start your career in construction before you start looking for
job and before you start thinking about getting in construction so let's go guys
first thing you need to know it's that here in uk you can actually do whatever you like really
and only sky is the limit that was the one of the reasons why i actually started this channel
here guys look on this construction site you can really go and start working as an engineer
without your school without your college you can get your step up to being project manager there's
no limits guys it's only up to you so this is very important thing guys to know that there's
no limits guys really and you don't have to do a couple of years of studies like i did myself
to start here in construction site and you can always start as a gp or as a steel fixer and then
jump up slowly slowly to have a look how the size looks how it works everything really and then go
to what you are really interested in after you're going to see what's all happening here so yeah
guys that's the first thing and then i say this the most important thing because that shows you
everything is possible second thing guys it's the cscs card once you're gonna decide you're
gonna start in construction you're going to need a cscs card and i'm going to quickly show you how
you can get this so that's the official website of cscs here and we're going to look for the card
for the first card for us and cscs that stands for construction skills certification scheme and guys
the first card you're going to be looking for if you never had one and obviously just make sure
you are eligible to work here in uk and that you have a national insurance number and then
the next step once you decide you're going to go on site you're going gonna start working on site
you need that cscs card as without it you cannot really start your work and uh what we're gonna
do now guys i just type labor that's really what we need we don't need anything else we just need
a card a basic card do we have a qualification now a professional body no it doesn't really
matter that's the red card they're going to be our first card this provisional card for a half year
and then we're probably going to be changing for some other cards depending if you're going to get
some qualification after you start working now your color of the next card gonna be different
uh but probably if you wanna keep a labor because it doesn't really matter the color of car doesn't
really matter it's only a few sides the people were checking if i actually got the engineering
degree on the car but i was to be honest i was only one job it was westfield white city
project and i think it was all because they had some problems there before and then once you're
gonna get this card you got access to site and you need it really and the little tip for you
guys is uh the most important thing is the test really and once you got a test your test is passed
uh the matter of getting the card is only two three days really after you're gonna pay around
25 pounds extra you have to call and then they're going to bring your card but you don't have to
really do it if you want to keep your cards for longer you you can actually wait to find the job
and once you find a job you can call quickly and tell your new employer that you got a certificate
for a cscs card and to be honest and in most of size they still really accept certificate and then
you're gonna bring your card in next two three days as that should arrive to you but obviously
if you don't don't mind to spend the 25 pounds and start the clock ticking from when you paid it
and then you want to change quicker to go to your next one that's no problem with that and obviously
guys everyone want to see the red card they know you just fresh starter so you can maybe get the
green one if you want to especially cheat a little bit about your experience and stuff
like that and i i found some other page you're probably going to find hundreds of these pages
they offering quick course here official cscs green card course lifetime qualification
and it's 990 pounds so it's not that much guys and you can actually go for the laborer green card
straight away so that might be the better option so but that's the options guys in a way that's the
cscs card you definitely need once you decide that you want to go inside you want to start working
you just have to get one so let's go to number three guys number three thing is the salary guys
and the money you can make in construction this is very important as uh construction is really
demanding and i know the work life balance it's maybe not the best here but the money
is really good here guys and once you start you can actually check my video about the salary but
i'm gonna just jump quickly and double check as the rate's really going higher and higher guys
and we can have a look what you can make now as a civil engineer what you can make as a manager
and we're gonna try to find some information about the graduate junior engineers and maybe all this
stuff at an entry level so let's have a look so this is cv library page guys and i'm going to
show you here quickly what the rates are now and as you can see setting up the engineer here this
is jrl i told you that in my previous video they always look for the engineer setting out engineers
so you gotta hear setting up 250 to 80 a day uh we got another one 230 to 270 a day
uh 230 to 270 to 240 to 300 a day at 25 to 30. so the rates didn't really change maybe
much from my last video so we can have a look at my civil engineer salary video guys if you want to
know more but that's the really good rate guys and remember setting out the engineer is actually
entry level so obviously don't get me wrong it doesn't mean that you're just going to start as an
engineer but once you're going to know how to how to use the edm you're going to be hard-working and
you're going to know the basic drawings you can actually go for one of these roles really and it
shouldn't take you much time to work as a junior engineer or to know all this stuff and start going
for one of these jobs and i just going to show you the senior engineer positions here at 23 to 27
350 to 400 uh so that's actually quite good 300 to 310 so uh yeah that's very similar to my
last video about the salaries i just checked the graduate engineer here to show you what what you
can expect when you're going to be starting as a graduate but i'm looking for construct structural
engineers 24, 26k per year structural engineer if we got anyone from construction here geotechnical
that's graduate civil engineer 25 to 30k so that's not very much guys but this is obviously graduate
level so about graduate guys i'm gonna try to do another video as i got a friend one who's a
graduate he was working with me on that last job in fulham and i'm gonna ask a few questions and
i'm gonna try to do a video about it so we're gonna know more how the graduate path looks
and then just maybe quickly show you the project manager salary here so 350 to 450 270 320 uh
so that depends obviously on experience and all this stuff 400 a day but this senior construction
project manager uh so that's the money so as i said guys said money here is really good in
construction it's hard work is demanding but uh you can really find a good money here because i
suppose measure 350 to 450 and if you're gonna go for construction project manage your career
you need to know that obviously you're going to have more responsibilities and you need you need
a good experience to do it and this is some other management skills uh contrary to engineering but
typically project manager they get also a bonus which is a percentage of the money they making
on the job so that's really big difference between the between the engineering and then
and then the project manager so uh yeah guys let's go to number four then so thing number four guys
uh would be the variety of courses available here in uk and as i said in point number one is
everything is possible guys and sky is the limit really so you can get some course if you want to
be setting out the engineer or if you want to do any other job if you want to be the machine driver
digger dumper driver whatever you can get the course guys and it's not going to take long time
obviously it costs some money but once you invest this it's going to pay off and trust
me i got the friends who are actually working as a dumper drivers and they are engineers now
and uh so there is loads of stories like these guys and by the way you see these nice uh curbs
on edge and i'm gonna do one video about this as well soon so yeah guys i just want to jump quickly
and have a look at what courses are available at the minute before i actually finish my own course
and guys i promise it's gonna be ready but it actually takes more time and as i said work life
balancing construction is not the best guys and working at least 10 hours a day plus the travel
you know it is it's not much time left to do the course but i'm working on it i promise and as soon
as it's gonna be ready i'm gonna let you know guys so let's have a look at these courses so guys uh
engineering channel i found two courses here for uh site serving and setting out i think this is
the similar one setting out for construction so i just type generally you can find it easily here
online it's not a problem so you can see it's a five-day course it cost eight nine five these
courses you can think guys they're quite expensive but the once you're going to pay this money they
really pay off later as the money going and later as i said before in the in the salary section
you can get this money quite quickly back once you're going to have this course so
who should attend suitable for training graduate engineers construction managers
people with previous experience of setting up but not having been working overseas so graduate
engineers training engineers guys that's our level here but if you start your training engineer
basically and so levelling taping you can have a look yourself actually what's
in that course what course is offering you what uh what you have to pay for them i got another
one here this is citb approved so what does it mean guys if this citb citb approved that means
we're gonna probably go back to our cscs card and you're going to get the white cscs card we're
going to be stating that you finished uh setting out in construction course which is always good
for your employer really so that's how it looks uh so with a total station leveling set up over
a point so this is very similar guys so yeah let's go to number five then and the number five thing
guys it's the very interesting projects here in uk and especially in london guys you got very big
interesting projects you got very good companies here and i'm not saying about this project here uh
this is a typical residential it's very good for the beginning of your career it's very interesting
as well but here in uk guys especially in london you can see the very big projects very interesting
stuff very deep basement another interesting the huge slip forms and i'm gonna show you a few few
things in a minute so let's have a look at these projects and these companies as well guys so guys
you probably heard of hs2 the great infrastructure project here in uk there is loads of jobs
loads of opportunities there for hs2 lots of company working for them really and there is
it works for years and very interesting projects i got another one hinckley point
very interesting as well guys uh this longer work work in there doing the concrete have a
look how many cranes are here uh this is crazy really and there's also lots of opportunities
from the graduate level to all the senior and project engineering positions so you can have a
look there as well very interesting project guys uh one in a lifetime maybe you never know but
very good and i'm going to show you one here that the battersea power station and all this butters
regeneration scheme here uh it's loads of phases as you can see phase two phase three phase four
so gonna be seven phases this is also for at least ten years project uh i took a part in it i work in
there for a few weeks also there is many projects guys liverpool street all bishopsgate projects
like this with giant props you can see this article here with with the prop and this has
happened nearly everywhere now in the center of the city they they dig in the basement two
level basement three-level basement that is really very interesting guys look at this
prop in here this is crazy really and these projects are very interesting also so so
that's the thing guys it's very worth getting into construction here in uk and especially in london
unless you're going to take a part in hs2 or the hinckley project so guys uh that'll be end of this
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