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Asked by mgarrido12 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 17 Jun 2014.
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Mark Greaves answered on 17 Jun 2014:
Typically the engineers in my place of work are based in offices and work mostly from computers. We do get let out to look at sites though.
Part of my work has recently seen me doing pump testing on live plant, there is a bit of spanner work involved in that to fit pressure gauges…oh and I got covered in poo on one of the sites!
Mark
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Rory Hadden answered on 17 Jun 2014:
I spend a lot of time in an office on a computer in my job but I do get to spend a lot of time visiting buildings to look at the fire behaviour.
Some engineers spend a lot of time out of the office – I have friends who work on oil rigs and on building bridges while some others spend almost every day designing buildings using a computer. It is one of the things that makes engineering such an interesting career choice. You can decide your own working environment.
Rory
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Jaz Rabadia answered on 17 Jun 2014:
Its a mixture of both – and its up to you as an engineer how much physical stuff you want to do. These days there are lots of engineering managers who are office based but they manage the people who are doing the physical work
Jaz
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Roma Agrawal answered on 17 Jun 2014:
I get to design the houses and bridges but I don’t build them myself, we have great builders for that! I do use computers to design things but really enjoy going to construction sites, where I look at what is being built, rather than building it myself.
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Cathy Fraser answered on 18 Jun 2014:
Hi
I probably split my job 60/40 between the office and on ‘site’ (site being power station visits, network operator visits, substation site meetings) – but I don’t do the ‘physical’ side of things.
In a previous role I worked on several substations – that was physical ‘fixing’ and maintaing things – definately great fun!
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