Civil Engineers
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.
Also called: Bridge/Structure Inspection Team Leader, County Engineer, Railroad Design Consultant, Structural Engineer
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- building and construction
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Initiative
- Achievement/Effort
Technology:
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Bentley MicroStation
Analytical or scientific software
- Minitab
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geographic information system GIS software
