Civil Engineer Technicians Job Description

A Civil Engineer Technician applies theory and principles of civil engineering in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Civil Engineers Technician must do several tasks in their job functions as follows:

• A Civil Engineer Technician inspects project sites and evaluates contractor work to detect design malfunctions and ensure conformance to design specifications and applicable codes.
• A Civil Engineer Technician analyzes proposed site factors and designs maps, graphs, tracings, and diagrams to illustrate findings.
• A Civil Engineer Technician plans and conducts field surveys to locate new sites and analyzes details of project sites.
• A Civil Engineer Technician drafts detailed dimensional drawings and designs layouts for projects to ensure conformance to specifications.
• A Civil Engineer Technician develops plans and estimates costs for installation of systems, utilization of facilities, or construction of structures.
• A Civil Engineer Technician reads and reviews project blueprints and structural specifications to determine dimensions of structure or system and material requirements.
• A Civil Engineer Technician calculates dimensions, square footage, profile and component specifications, and material quantities, using calculator or computer.
• A Civil Engineer Technician reports maintenance problems occurring at project site supervisor and negotiates changes to resolve system conflicts.
• A Civil Engineer Technician conducts materials test and analysis, using tools and equipment, and applying engineering knowledge.
• A Civil Engineer Technician confers with supervisor to determine project details, such a plan preparation, acceptance testing, and evaluation of field conditions.
• A Civil Engineer Technician prepares reports and documents project activities and data.
• A Civil Engineer Technician prepares reports and documents project activities and data.
• A Civil Engineer Technician evaluates facility to determine suitability for occupancy and square footage availability.
• A Civil Engineer Technician responds to public suggestions and complaints.

Civil Engineer Technicians Knowledge Requirements:

• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of numbers, their operations, and interrelationships including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, coordination, and execution. This includes strategic planning, resource allocation, manpower modeling, leadership techniques, and production methods.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, and applications including air, water, material dynamics, light, atomic principles, heat, electric theory, earth formations, and meteorological and related natural phenomena.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of weaponry, public safety, and security operations, rules, regulations, precautions, prevention, and the protection of people, data, and property.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of economics and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of various methods for describing the location and distribution of land, sea, and air masses including their physical locations, relationships, and characteristics.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, waste, quality control, costs, and techniques for maximizing the manufacture and distribution of goods.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing systems, filing and records management systems, stenography and transcription, forms design principles, and other office procedures and terminology.
• A Civil Engineer Technician must have knowledge of the composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.