What do I need to hire Structural Engr/ Arch Techn?

G-Man

I do IT part time for a family engineering firm. They have steel structural work ( started out doing railings/stairs equipment fitting and have now moved up to much larger structural projects, dealing with public bodies and larger firms)..

Now his last project involves dealing a with a team of architects who are sending in multiple changes per day and looking for detailed responses of technical details by email daily. The volume of engineering work is fine, but the the volume of documentation and responses to is larger than that.

Boss is on the road or on shop floor all day and reckons he needs to hire a technician /graduate engineer who can coordinate these changes from architects to the outsourced drawing technicians to inhouse fabricators... Someone who can keep on top of the documentation and distill the right things for him to look at, and comply with the documentation requests from the architects.

Whats he looking for, is it a structural engineer / arch technician? He reckons its a 6 -8 month placement would cover this tender. He is hoping a graduate would cover it, I am not convinced as you need someone who can start running and has some experience of a tender. There aint much design in it, but there would have to be a lot of understanding of large drawings and design changes..

godtabh

I would suggest an engineer with 2-3 years experience. As you say no design but understanding of drawings is important

G-Man

Thanks, I guess I could approach some of the careers offices in the universities /DITs with a job spec and details... I see similar sort of positions advertised on the TCD careers office website for mech eng skills.