Job profile: Civil engineer

As a civil engineer you would plan, design and manage construction projects. Projects could range from the relatively small-scale, such as bridge repairs, through to large national schemes, like the building of the new Olympic stadium.

Civil engineering covers several specialist areas of engineering, so you could be employed in any one of the following branches:

• structural – dams, buildings, offshore platforms and pipelines
• transportation – roads, railways, canals and airports
• environmental – water supply networks, drainage and flood barriers
• maritime – ports, harbours and sea defences
• geotechnical – mining, earthworks and construction foundations.

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