Clerk of Works Careers

Work Environment:

Being a clerk of works (also recognized as site inspector), you'd administer the safety and quality of work at a construction worksite, ensuring that construction plan and schemes are properly followed.

Your tasks would comprise:

• coordinating with other professionals, like surveyors, contractors and engineers
• sampling and measuring construction materials to test their quality
• finding out faults and advising methods to rectify them

• executing usual work inspections at site
• recording outcomes on a PDA or a paper
• administering and reporting development progress to customers and managers

Qualification, Education and Experience:

Generally, you'd be a clerk of works subsequently getting some work experience into the engineering or construction businesses, at the level of craft/technician.

You can search for job as a trainee after acquiring a BTEC: HND or HNC, or degree into engineering or construction. See the website of UCAS, for details regarding colleges and universities providing these training courses.

Employers/companies might prefer you to have enrollment with ICWGB: Institution of Clerks of Works of Great-Britain, which is the acknowledged business organization for this work field.

Check the website of the Construction Skills, for further information regarding this career.

Training Details:

You can obtain qualifications such as Third and Fourth levels NVQ in Site Inspection, while you're working. The NVQ qualification includes modules in:

• controlling progress, contract and quality
• administering the performance of individuals and teams
• health and safety

CSCS: Construction Skills-Certification Scheme

Numerous construction contractors nowadays prefer you to encompass a related CSCS card to get entry to their worksites. This card is verification of your competency and abilities. Being an ICWGB associate, you can select a card which corresponds to your membership level. For additional details, visit the website of the CSCS.

Skills and knowledge:

• the capability to meet up deadlines
• a thorough understanding of the construction business
• admirable problem solving abilities
• physically fit and ability to operate at heights
• an understanding of Construction Policies
• outstanding negotiation and communication abilities
• the capability to coordinate with employees at each level
• excellent project management and managerial abilities
• the capability to concentrate to particulars
• excellent written-communication abilities

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Earnings of clerk of works can be around £22,000 to £41,000 for a year.
• Based on the contract, and with considerable experience, the earnings can boost to about £52,000 or above.

Working Conditions:

You'd generally do site inspections on weekdays, working for about 36 to 41 hours weekly. You might be required to work on evenings or weekends to meet up project targets.

You'd have a site-office, although you'd employ most of working time outdoors at worksite. You can be doing inspections underground, e.g. in construction of tunnel or at heights by ladders or scaffolding.

You might be working on one site for the time span of a construction project, or voyage to different sites to perform inspections and visit contractors. Few jobs might need overnight-stays away from house.

Different Opportunities:

You can work with construction and engineering firms, regional authorities, and the NHS. You might also discover openings with private firms carrying out consultancy work.

By experience, you can advance to site management and construction-management positions. You can also establish you own site inspection firm.

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