My name is Voirrey Baker and I am a civil engineer. I currently work in the job role of assistant project manager for Amey here in Sheffield.
So currently in my day-to-day job, it's the planning and organisation of construction schemes. There's a fair bit of work that goes on behind the scenes before you can even, like, break ground on site. We need to get all the information from utility companies. You obviously get the design. You have to order the materials. You have to agree traffic management measures if you're working under closure or temporary traffic lights.
I manage the labour, come up with a programme and just make sure everything is prepared. And then once you're on site, sometimes you have to mark out what's going on where. There’ll be organisation of labour and subcontractors. And making sure everyone knows what they're doing at the right time. They've got everything they need. And kind of monitoring it as well, going off and checking sites, seeing how they're doing, if there's any issues.
I think problem solving is one of the things that interested me most about this, this role. The fact that you have to react, and it isn't going to be the same every day. How do you deal with, with issues when they arise?
Teamwork is a really big thing. Because there might be one of you. If it's just you, you can't build a lot. You've got to work with other people. And in that, you also want good communication.
The kind of satisfaction in, you know, when you see the work that you've worked on. I'll drive around town and go, oh, that was my scheme. I think that's pretty good.
