This role is ideal for engineering students in their penultimate year, who are required to complete a Vocational Placement as part of their degree.
In this role, the student observes engineering activities and prepares rudimentary engineering calculations, entering structural models in analysis software and assisting senior engineering staff with structural design, sketches, site inspections and basic engineering reports or dilapidation surveys.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
* Making yourself acquainted with the policies and procedures of Partridge, maintaining a timesheet hourly and entering timesheet daily, and assist with office and administration duties as required;
* Taking responsibility for design tasks under direction from a Senior Engineer of the practice:
o Designing structural elements in the materials of concrete, masonry, steel, timber;
o Hand calculations and excel spreadsheet development for engineering design analysis;
o Review Australian Standards and develop understanding of NCC requirements for design.
* Referring queries from work in progress to the engineer in charge of your projects:
o Manage tasks and workload under a senior engineer within expected timeframes;
o Report summary of design calculations to a senior engineer for review and approval.
* Attending site inspections under supervision from a Senior Engineer:
o Review design documentation to understand inspection elements prior to site attendance;
o Assist in reporting site instruction/memo for senior engineer to issue to contractors.
Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills
* Currently studying towards an Architectural Engineering degree, Bachelor of Engineering degree (Honours), Bachelor of Engineering degree, or equivalent;
* Be open to relaying your thoughts or concerns on your internship and provide feedback at the conclusion;
* Personal skills: punctuality, diligence, self-motivation, responsibility;
* Productivity;
* Execution and Quality of Work;
* Commitment and Dependability;
* Initiative;
* Flexibility;
* Communication skills;
* Teamwork;
* Planning/controlling of workload;
* Demonstration of the Partridge core values: Listen, Engage, Think and Deliver.
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