Features of the profession engineer for technical supervision

The technical supervision engineer has an increased responsibility: in the construction industry he is responsible for how comfortable and, most importantly, buildings and structures will be safe for future residents of the house, and in the production - for the absence of risks of emergency situations.

On any building structures, as well as in the technical re-equipment of production enterprises and during reconstruction mandatory element is technical supervision. It involves full control over the conformity of the volume of work performed in terms of cost and quality to the approved project, as well as to the existing Construction Norms and Regulations. The duties of an engineer on VT include timely monitoring of all stages of the construction of a supervised facility and its commissioning within the time period specified by the contract.

Employees of the technical supervision department are usually installed by the customer (if it is a construction sector - the developer) and must be registered with the authorities State architectural and construction control. Technical supervision can be carried out both by the sole representative of the customer and by a group of specialists. The responsible person for the implementation of technical control by the customer is an engineer, this person gives a subscription in a special form.Only specialists with a construction or technical education, work experience in the specialty of which is 3 years or more, are allowed to carry out technical supervision.

In accordance with the ETKS, establishing professional standards, the following job description has been drawn up for the leading engineer of technical supervision. The duties of the employee in this position include the following functions.

• Conclusion of a contract with the general contractor for the implementation of construction and installation works with the exact observance of all applicable legislative standards. In the corresponding contract, the amount of payment for work is obligatory established in monetary terms, the terms of construction are fixed, and a schedule for the execution of all types of construction works is attached, broken down by individual quarters, months and other periods.
• Registration of all necessary documentation for allotment of land allotments for the planned construction work. It is the technical supervision that must perform timely geodetic breakdown in the designated area, after which all the necessary documents are transferred according to the act of the construction company. According to an act from the builders, the technical supervision specialist accepts the axial distribution of the buildings under construction, as well as high-rise markings with the parameters of the foundations of the foundations.
• Providing the construction company with drawn up documents for the demolition of all structures located in the construction zone of the building. The specialist also coordinates the transfer of utilities, and, if necessary, receives permission to cut down landings.
• Obtaining permission from municipal services to provide the construction site with electricity, registration of the connection and removal of wastewater, gasification, as well as telephone installation with the mandatory fixation of the connection point.
• Transfer to a construction company all working drawings.
• Execution of work approvals indicating the terms allotted for them, as well as the rationale for extending the completion date if necessary.
• Engineer must carry out a technical audit daily the quality of construction and installation, as well as other highly specialized works for their compliance with regulatory technical documents and existing legal acts.
• The specialist must personally present when accepting hidden works and on the basis of acceptance data to allow or prohibit the next block of work.
• Checking the design of passports for the reinforced concrete, provided by suppliers of building materials. An engineer is required to require certificates for concrete and other mortars. And if necessary, has the right to require data from tests of building materials carried out in experimental laboratory conditions in order to confirm their design brand.
• Employee monthly accepts the performed work, makes its measurements, checks the quality and compliance of the work with current standards. If all the work is done in strict accordance with the approved schedule, the engineer draws up an act of work and provides the necessary documents for payment.
• This specialist obliged to verify the correctness of the maintenance of all production and welding, concrete, and other construction work journals. If their quality is violated, the engineer must make the appropriate records and set a deadline for eliminating all detected defects.
• Engineer has the right monitor compliance with all requirements: both those entered into the journal from the position of field supervision, and those received from regulatory bodies.
• If necessary, leading technical supervision specialist can contact the design company in order to agree on amendments and additions to the project for the replacement of building materials, as well as the implementation of the production cycle in order to adjust the working design and estimate documentation.
• This specialist can monitor the performance of contractual obligations by contractors and, if necessary, impose sanctions.
• Technical Supervision Engineer takes an active part in assessing the state of facilities under construction in the case of their preservation, draws up a defective statement in order to preserve the structure during the suspension of construction.
• In case of emergency, employee obliged to inform the state construction control authorities about this and offer troubleshooting tips.

The engineer of the technical supervision department bears an increased responsibility, up to the criminal, in the following cases:

• upon acceptance outstanding work or work carried out in inadequate quality;
• upon confirmation the customer’s overestimated amount of work compared to the actual one, which entails a distortion in the reporting on the write-off of materials;
• when signing acts hidden works that do not correspond to actual data, as well as when drawing up acts retroactively or when arranging acceptance of an object without personal presence on the site.

It is obvious that technical supervision in construction is extremely important and one of the most critical stages of all work.

To obtain the position of engineer of technical supervision, you must complete training at a higher educational institution, a construction college or complete special retraining courses. When choosing a particular educational organization, it should be borne in mind that for applicants with a higher construction or technical education, as a rule, requirements for seniority in the specialty are not presented. At the same time, applicants who have studied at a college or technical school must have a confirmed work experience of at least 3 years as a first category technician or five years of experience as an engineer.

An ordinary technical supervision specialist with a university diploma can quickly upgrade his qualification category to an engineer by taking special courses. In order to fully control the accuracy of construction and installation works during training in a specialty, future engineers of VTs gain knowledge about:

• current standards and rules for the implementation of construction work;
• installation technology;
• current standards regarding the operation of building materials, as well as the conditions for their use;
• rules for maintaining and compiling reporting documents;
• safety requirements for work on construction sites.

Given the rapid development of the construction market in the country, it is safe to say that the profession of engineer of the department of technical supervision today is quite in demand and will be in demand in the near foreseeable future. This is not at all surprising, since its representatives, as statistics show, help to reduce up to 20% of costs and unproductive costs of the total estimated cost of the object. In addition, they 99% guarantee the accuracy of meeting the deadlines for the finished object and 100% increase the quality of work performed.

This is a socially useful and very responsible work, and therefore it is paid very well.On average, a technical supervision engineer in Russia receives from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. per month. Within the framework of his specialty, an employee can deepen his skills and knowledge and constantly improve in the profession: he can do it on his own or take retraining courses. The second option is preferable, since timely improvement of the qualification category opens the following possibilities:

• get the position of chief engineer for VT;
• to achieve the right to make independent decisions regarding supervised projects;
• become a full participant in discussions on the issues of supervision of construction projects and exert a direct influence on the solution of significant tasks.