CIVILEER

Career Skills Training

Real Project, Tier 1 Standard

Taught on active Australian infrastructure construction packages from a head contractor perspective. The materials you practice with are what live projects actually run on—engineering drawings, look-ahead schedules, subcontracts, claims registers, and cost reports. Master these before day one.

Site Engineer

Read the job

  • ·Interpret construction drawings and design specifications
  • ·Understand work breakdown structure and scope of works structures
  • ·Obtain construction permits and approvals

Plan and programme

  • ·Plan construction activities and prepare construction activity management plans
  • ·Prepare short-term look-ahead work programmes
  • ·Monitor and update construction progress

Run the work

  • ·Manage self-performed and subcontracted construction activities
  • ·Construction quality frameworks and quality management
  • ·Construction OH&S frameworks and site safety management
  • ·Environmental management systems and documentation
  • ·Perform construction risk assessments

Procurement & Reporting

  • ·Subcontractor and material procurement
  • ·Track daily productivity, progress and cost
  • ·Project cost management and reporting

Contract Administrator

Commercial & Cost Management Masterclass

Form and run the contract

  • ·Define project scope and contractual requirements
  • ·Form and execute contracts
  • ·Maintain accurate records of contracts, documentation and correspondence
  • ·Track subcontractor and supplier compliance
  • ·Procure subcontract packages and supply contracts

Manage the cost

  • ·Manage project budgets and track project cost
  • ·Prepare project forecasting and cost reporting
  • ·Monthly reporting on cost-to-date, accrual and forecast cost to complete

Claims, Variations & Negotiations

  • ·Review and process contract claims
  • ·Review and negotiate variations
  • ·Negotiate variation and extension-of-time claims
  • ·Conduct negotiations on contract terms and conditions
  • ·Invoice and claims management

Estimator

Quantity Takeoff & Tender Pricing

Read the tender

  • ·Review tender documents, drawings and specifications
  • ·Define scope, exclusions and qualifications
  • ·Prepare the tender programme and resource requirements

Measure and procure

  • ·Quantity take-off from drawings
  • ·Build up cost using first principles
  • ·Prepare bills of quantities and schedules of rates
  • ·Prepare Invitation to Quote
  • ·Quote evaluation and comparison

Tender submission

  • ·Review contract conditions for commercial exposure
  • ·Identify commercial, programme and construction risk
  • ·Prepare tender submission
  • ·Tender clarification

How the training runs

Worked, not watched

You do the tasks on the package — mark up the drawing, build the look-ahead, price the variation. Watching someone explain a process is not the same as having produced the document once.

Delivered personally

Sixteen years on Melbourne infrastructure, tier 1 contractor side, still practising. The examples are current because the work is current.

Your skills, enhanced

Once you have completed the training, the skills are yours. They should make their way onto your resume — and you should be able to defend them in an interview. That is the difference between having done a course and being able to do the job.

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