What You Can Expect
Transfer of Skill to enable you to be confident on site, making informed decisions, earning respect from the Client, your Employer, Colleagues, and the Contractor.
RESIDENT ENGINEERS OBTAIN RESPECT FROM CONTRACTORS THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND INTEGRITY
Our Services
Recommended career development
1
Online Course
Online course "Getting aquanted with being a Resident Engineer on road projects" summerize the basice aspects and principals for road construction supervision.
Time period: 2 days
CPD points #2
2
Support Tools
Videos on basic principals and technical knowhow for road construction supervision.
Time period: 5 days
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Excel spreadsheets for:
Quality Control Systems, Automated "As build" sheets, Checklists, Worksheets, Site diary, Layout & Program monitoring, Quantity measurements etc.
3
Mentorship Program
Assignments, Practicals and Test on all aspects of road supervision. Mandaroty: person must be working on site to attend course.
Weekly discussion with Mentor.
Mentorship level 1 - 4 depending on your resposibility on the project: Student, MT, CoW, SMT, ARE, RE
Certifcate issued for level 1 - 4
Time period: 1 - 4 years
Presentor, Mentor, Founder
Meet Jan Bierman
Jan is a freelance Resident Engineer (Pr. Eng.) with +25 years experience. He supervised over 900km of road construction for 17 different Consulting Engineers. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has presented his online course to over 400 people.
Testimonies
Richard Muyambo
"This course is extremely useful in that it deals with practical issues of construction supervision and hence enhances a resident engineer's capacity and efficiency in supervision of road construction contracts."
Maureen Tetsoane
Technologist, Pr Tech Eng, Mariswe
"Jan Bierman who was a Resident Engineer created an effective quality control system to assist us on site.
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I learned a lot from Mr Jan Bierman, with the experience gained I am
proud to say that I am now registered with ECSA as a Professional Engineering Technologist."
Niel Claassens
Assistant Resident Engineer,
Hatch
"Skills Transfer SA has a fantastic system that balances theoretical knowledge with practical, on-site experience. My knowledge of construction (and particularly quality control) increased tremendously. I would recommend the training provided by Skills Transfer SA to any young Engineer."