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Setting Out Training

  • 08-07-2014 10:51am
    #1
    madmac187
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    Hi all, just came back from Australia, been away for 3 years. I have done site engineer, civil engineer and project manager roles over there. I'm looking to improve my setting out skills as they are rusty. I have been looking at the surveying courses, that run for a day or two and show you how to operate a gps and total station. Would anyone recommend a good company or have done one previously that would know where to go?


Comments

  • #2
    sydthebeat
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    a location would be handy?


  • #3
    madmac187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭madmac187


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    a location would be handy?

    Im looking for someone who has done it with anyone i mean lol


  • #4
    mickdw
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    Having worked as setting out engineer, site engineer etc myself, I don't think you need to worry too much about the actual operation of the total station etc. If you know the job and what is required such as being able to manage or partially manage a section of works, insuring you have your information / details as and when needed etc, I wouldn't see any issue with you needing an hour or 2 of tuition on the particular machine being used, after all they are all different.


  • #5
    madmac187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭madmac187


    mickdw wrote: »
    Having worked as setting out engineer, site engineer etc myself, I don't think you need to worry too much about the actual operation of the total station etc. If you know the job and what is required such as being able to manage or partially manage a section of works, insuring you have your information / details as and when needed etc, I wouldn't see any issue with you needing an hour or 2 of tuition on the particular machine being used, after all they are all different.

    I understand all that definitely. It is just that I talk to a recruiter and they ask me are you confident in using it, try and explain everything is different and they are like, so you aren't confident. People have such unreasonable expectations at the minute of engineers, it is so unfair and I don't want to get a job and be told we don't want you after a day.


  • #6
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,730 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    madmac187 wrote: »
    I understand all that definitely. It is just that I talk to a recruiter and they ask me are you confident in using it, try and explain everything is different and they are like, so you aren't confident. People have such unreasonable expectations at the minute of engineers, it is so unfair and I don't want to get a job and be told we don't want you after a day.
    At interview, just say you have lots of experience on the instruments.
    Once you know what its all about, learning the way different machines are laid out is a minor detail.
    Any site manager who would send you home on the basis of not immediately knowing how to operate a random model of total station would be a bit of a tool tbh.
    I did a few weeks agency work where I was seetting out having been away from it for 6 or 7 years. Was asked what make of instrument I was used to before turning up on site - pentax instrument similar to one I knew my way around was hired in and I spent an hour or two going through it. No issues.


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