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Structural Engineering Technicians

Descriptions & Duties

  • Structural Engineering Technicians perform technical tasks in structural engineering plan, research, design, construction and maintenance of building project. They also help to plan, design, and build commercial, industrial, residential, and land development projects.

Generic Competencies

Physical Abilities

Physical abilities

  • Physical strength
  • Eye hand coordination / precision / dexterity

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Technology Skills

Technology skills

  • Computer literacy
  • Application of technology

 

Importance:4 (Max:5) 

Skill is frequently required

 

Cognitive Abilities

Cognitive abilities

  • Creativity
  • Visualisation
  • Logical thinking

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Comprehension And Expression

Comprehension and expression skills

  • Reading comprehension
  • Oral / written expression

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Social Skills

Social skills

  • Communication
  • Negotiation
  • Persuasion

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Organisation And Execution Skills

Organisation and execution skills

  • Planning
  • Organising
  • Judgement
  • Decision making

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Problem Solving Skills

Problem solving skills

  • Ability to solve simple and complex problems effectively and efficiently

 

Importance:3 (Max:5) 

Skill is basically required

 

Management Skills

Management skills

  • Leadership
  • Management of finance / time / people / other resources

 

Importance:2 (Max:5) 

Skill is occasionally required

 

Trade Specific Competencies

Construction project implementation knowledge and skills

To help Structural Engineers to implement structural engineering projects, Structural Engineering Technicians must understand and familiar with their responsible tasks from start to finish. They must coordinate effectively with different professionals, peers and subordinates and have to ensure that the projects are well completed.

Professional knowledge and skills in structural engineering

Structural Engineering Technicians must always apply professional knowledge and skills in relation to structural engineering to solve issues and problems at work.

General Requirements

Academic qualification

  • typically have a higher diploma or an associate degree in civil engineering

Experience

  • usually have some work experiences in a related occupation

Career Path & Salary

Private Sector

Monthly Salary $10,000-$40,000

Monthly Salary $20,000-$50,000

Monthly Salary $20,000-$60,000

Monthly Salary $20,000-$70,000

Government Sector

Monthly Salary Training Pay Scale Point 4-6

Monthly Salary Master Pay Scale Point 9-22

Monthly Salary Master Pay Scale Point 23-29

Monthly Salary Master Pay Scale Point 30-37

Monthly Salary Master Pay Scale Point 38-41

*For more details on Civil Service Pay Scales, please visit website of the Civil Service Bureau.
http://www.csb.gov.hk/english/admin/pay/952.html

Related Education & Training

Work Environment

  • Structural Engineering Technicians usually work in office, but may spend a lot of time working at construction sites, where they help solve structural engineering problems at the construction sites.

Tools

  • Augers - Bucket augers; Hand augers
  • Compression testers - Compression testing machines
  • Concrete or cement testing instruments - Metal cones; Paving sample splitters; Slump cones; Stabilometers
  • Hydraulic rock drills - Rotary rock drills
  • Hydrometers
  • Laboratory burets - Glass burets
  • Laboratory funnels - Wide-mouthed funnels
  • Laboratory graduated cylinders
  • Penetrometers - Pocket penetrometers
  • Permeability testing apparatus - Soil density testers
  • pH meters - pH testers
  • Pitch measuring instruments - Inclinometers
  • Portable data input terminals - Field data collectors
  • Precipitation or evaporation recorders - Precipitation gauges
  • Protective gloves - Safety gloves
  • Safety glasses
  • Sampling syringes - Laboratory bulb syringes
  • Seismic recorders or seismographs - Seismographs
  • Shear strength testers - Torvanes
  • Vibration testers - Vibration monitors

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