Features of the profession of technical supervision engineer

The technical supervision engineer is entrusted with increased responsibility: in the construction sector, he is responsible for how comfortable and, most importantly, safe for future inhabitants of the house the buildings and structures will be, and in production - for the absence of risks of emergencies.

On any building structures, as well as in the technical re-equipment of industrial enterprises and during reconstruction a mandatory element is technical supervision... It assumes full control over the compliance of the volume of work performed in terms of cost and quality with the approved project, as well as existing SNiPs and TUs. The duties of a heat pump engineer include timely control over all stages of the construction of the supervised facility and its commissioning within the terms specified in the contract.

Employees of the technical supervision department are usually installed by the customer (if it comes to the construction industry - the developer) and must be registered with the authorities State architectural and construction control. Technical supervision can be carried out either by a single representative of the customer or by a group of specialists. The engineer is responsible for the execution of technical control on the part of the customer, this person submits a subscription in a special form.Only specialists with a construction or technical education are allowed to carry out technical supervision, whose work experience in their specialty is 3 or more years.

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

• Conclusion with the general contractor of a contract for the implementation of construction and installation work in strict compliance with all applicable legislative standards... In the corresponding agreement, the amount of payment for work in monetary terms is mandatory, the construction time is fixed, and a calendar plan for the implementation of all types of construction work is attached, broken down by separate quarters, months and other periods.
• Registration of all necessary documentation for the allotment of land plots for the planned construction work... It is the technical supervision that must carry out a timely geodetic breakdown in the designated area, after which all the necessary documents are transferred according to the act of the construction company. The technical supervision specialist accepts from the builders the axial distribution of buildings under construction, as well as high-rise markings with the parameters of the foundations, from the builders.
• Providing the construction company with the formalized documents for the demolition of all structures located in the construction area of ​​the building. Also, the specialist coordinates the transfer of utilities, and, if necessary, obtains permission to cut down the plantings.
• Obtaining permission from municipal services to provide a construction site with electricity, registration of connection and drainage of waste water, gasification, as well as installation of telephones with the obligatory fixation of the connection point.
• Transfer to a construction company all working drawings.
• Registration of approvals for the performance of works with an indication of the time allotted for them, as well as the justification for extending the completion date of construction, if necessary.
• The engineer must carry out technical audit on a daily basis 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 without fail personally attend the acceptance of hidden works and, based on the acceptance data, allow or prohibit the next block of works.
• Checking the registration of passports for reinforced concrete structures, provided by suppliers of building materials. The engineer is obliged to request certificates for concrete and other mortars. And, if necessary, has the right to demand data from tests of building materials carried out in experimental laboratory conditions in order to confirm their design grade.
• Employee monthly accepts the work performed, makes measurements, checks the quality and compliance of the work with the current standards... If all the work is done in strict accordance with the approved schedule, the engineer draws up an act of work performance and provides the documents necessary for payment.
• This specialist is obliged to check the correctness of keeping all logs of production and execution of welding, concrete, and other construction work. If their quality is violated, the engineer must make appropriate records and set a time limit for eliminating all detected defects.
• The engineer has the right monitor the implementation of all prescriptions: both those entered by him in the journal from the standpoint of designer supervision, and those received from the regulatory authorities.
• If necessary, a leading technical supervision specialist can contact the project company in order to agree on the introduction of additions and changes to the project for replacing building materials, as well as performing a cycle of production work in order to correct the working design and estimate documentation.
• This specialist can monitor the fulfillment 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 conservation, draws up a defective statement in order to preserve the structure for the duration of the suspension of construction.
• In the event of an emergency, an employee is obliged to notify the state construction control authorities about this and suggest troubleshooting recommendations.

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

• upon acceptance uncompleted work or work carried out in inadequate quality;
• upon confirmation the customer has an overestimated amount of work in comparison with the actual one, which entails a distortion of the reporting on the write-off of materials;
• when signing acts hidden works that do not correspond to the actual data, as well as when issuing acts retroactively or when registering the acceptance of an object without personal presence at the site.

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

To get the position of a technical supervision engineer, you must undergo 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, there are no requirements for work experience in the specialty. While applicants who studied at a college or technical school must have a proven work experience of at least 3 years in the position of a technician of the first category or five years of experience in a position of an engineer.

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

• current standards and rules for the implementation of construction work;
• installation technology;
• current regulations regarding the operation of building materials, as well as the conditions for their use;
• rules for maintaining and drawing up accounting documents;
• safety requirements when carrying out work on construction sites.

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

This is a socially useful and very responsible job, therefore it is also paid very well.On average in Russia, a technical supervision engineer 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 a timely upgrade of the qualification category opens up the following opportunities:

• get the position of chief engineer for TN;
• gain the right to make independent decisions regarding supervised projects;
• become a full-fledged participant in discussions on the supervision of projects under construction and have a direct impact on the solution of significant problems.