It’s all about working together. Choose a career in construction and you won’t be starting out on your own. You’ll be joining a team of specialist people all working together to build a strong, long-lasting future. Whatever your role is in the industry, if it’s as a bricklayer or plasterer, civil engineer, architect or construction manager, every team member is as important as the next. So, whether your talent is working with your head or hands, you can be sure there’s a career in construction for you.

Careers in construction aren't limited to the trades you easily recognise on a building site, such as bricklaying, scaffolding or welding - as important as these skills are. For instance, construction projects need managers with the ability to organise people and budgets to ensure tasks are completed on time to the highest quality, as well as supervisors to enforce health and safety rules and security.

"The construction industry gives you the opportunity to create part of the built environment that people can enjoy."

The construction boasts a wide variety of careers including skilled manual labour, project management, IT, marketing, design and much more. Construction needs people with creative, technical, management and practical skills. So, whether you like figuring out how things work, making things with your hands, working in a team, taking charge of projects or you really like designing things, there’s definitely a career for you.

Key benefits of working in construction:

• Be an important part of a team
• Make a real difference to the environment from city regeneration to ensuring essential facilities are available.
• Enjoy a huge variety of work
• The opportunity to work abroad
• Get complete job satisfaction in the knowledge that you helped build something that will last a lifetime or longer
• Give yourself the freedom to start your own business • Start at any level and work your way to the top
• Work towards a range of respected professional qualifications
• Put your creative skills to the test
• Work with your hands and your head

Construction Engineers of all kinds play a vital role in property and construction, as their highly technical skills are required throughout the planning, building, maintenance and preservation stages.

Discover these construction careers and engineering roles:

• Building services engineer
• Construction manager
• Consulting civil engineer
• Contracting civil engineer
• Engineering geologist
• Mining engineer
• Site engineer
• Structural engineer
• Water engineer

There are plenty of institutions offering degrees in construction engineering, for example, Civil Engineering at Oregano State University offers a diverse professional field with areas of concentration in structural engineering, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, water resources engineering, surveying, and ocean engineering. The University of Tennessee Knoxville offering career advice on their career portal helping prospects to research career paths, typical job titles, and how to start building skills to get prepared for this industry.

Plenty of UK universities also offer job placements, internships and other career opportunities for prospective civil engineers. As for example, the University of Leeds provides listings for career opportunities in Town and Regional Planning.

Imperial College London – one of the leading universities in the UK offering a variety of programs and career opportunities for international students in civil engineering.

Newcastle University also offering career advice providing insights into the sector listing variety of opportunities - from technical roles to those in management or engineering.