Civil Engineer
- Design and build essential infrastructure that shapes communities and improves lives.
- Ensure safety and sustainability in construction projects, impacting future generations.
- Combine creativity and technical skills to solve complex engineering challenges.
💰 Earn $83K-$138K
📚 Bachelor Degree
Overview
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.Scoop
Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Direct engineering activities, ensuring compliance with environmental, safety, or other governmental regulations.
- Manage and direct the construction, operations, or maintenance activities at project site.
- Inspect project sites to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.
- Compute load and grade requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors to determine design specifications.
- Plan and design transportation or hydraulic systems or structures, using computer-assisted design or drawing tools.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Thinking and problem solving
You are skilled in 💫
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Writing
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
You value 🙏
- Job security
- Receiving recognition
- Having freedom
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Civil Engineer
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Pathways to this Career
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