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Environmental Engineer or Facilities Management career??

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  • 06-01-2015 3:43pm
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    cianoc07
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    Hi,

    Im a graduate in construction management and engineering. at the moment im trying to decide on which career route to take. Ive worked as a site engineer and i now i want to try my hand at something else. As a civil engineer you will e moved around a lot and id rather have some sort of structure in the future say dublin or leinseter or ireland at least.

    Basically I would like to hear from you the Facilities managers and environmental engineers about the pros and cons of your career and what you think of it. What advice would you give me as now im deciding what masters to do?


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    bgo1
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    cianoc07 wrote: »
    Hi,

    Im a graduate in construction management and engineering. at the moment im trying to decide on which career route to take. Ive worked as a site engineer and i now i want to try my hand at something else. As a civil engineer you will e moved around a lot and id rather have some sort of structure in the future say dublin or leinseter or ireland at least.

    Basically I would like to hear from you the Facilities managers and environmental engineers about the pros and cons of your career and what you think of it. What advice would you give me as now im deciding what masters to do?

    If you are already a qualified engineer, then do the masters in facility management or e.g. Environmental Health and safety or whatever you fancy.

    A consultancy (or other) will employ you as a civil engineer with your existing qualification so you will just be duplicating if you do a broad engineer masters and it would be a wasted opportunity to broaden your options for future roles. There are other specific masters in e.g Water Engineering, so you could create e.g.Flood risk Assessments, Drainage etc, but again you will likely get that same job if you just sell yourself hard enough with the existing engineering degree as you will be working under a principal engineer anyway.

    Summary, if you want an engineering role your degree is likely to be enough for most employers as you start as a graduate anyway and learn on the job for whatever specific area youl be in, but if branching out from engineering, yes do the masters.


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