Site Work vs Office Work
As a building engineer, he or she can play the role of a field engineer or site engineer. A civil engineer in the building field plays various roles. Field Engineer is usually based in the site office while a site engineer spends most of the time supervising the site operations. On a large undertaking and in an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and building) environment you will come across engineers earmarked to play such roles. In the Middle East and western world site engineer also play the role of building Superintendent.
When you work on major undertakings with top multinational companies you come across various departments making up the undertaking team. These departments include but not limited to Field Engineering, Construction, protection, QA, QC, Contracts, undertaking Controls, Interface and Field Procurement.
Difference between Field and Site Engineer
Civil Field Engineer plays a role of cushion between site engineer and design engineer or engineering, as such he or she visits the site quite often to interact with the site for inspections, resolving technical issues, substance approvals, and interpret drawings and specifications.
On the other hand, a Site Engineer is responsible for protection, execution, supervision, progress including handling of machinery, labor and substances.
Having provided a glimpse of the construction sector in my earlier article, the focus of this article is on crucial tasks that you will be asked to undertake as a C i vil Field Engineer.
( Picture showing how pile cages are stored off the ground to avoid contamination )
List of Roles and Responsibilities: