Contracts Engineers are engineering specialists who supervise projects and make sure that the contract terms address all the client's requirements. Their main work is to develop, implement and review contracts, make sure that best practices are applied on any given project; and to make all the revisions available to all the parties involved in the project. They also consult with technical staff on various products and applications; manage sub-contract labour and suppliers, handle complaints from the client. They have to deal with issues that may compromise the project start and completion date, payment of a contract, invoicing, non-chargeable expenses, as well as any labour or equipment costs.
Candidates have to go through different procedures/steps for having success in this profession which are given below.
Contracts Engineer Eligibility
The minimum educational qualification for a Contracts Engineer is at least a Bachelor’s Degree in your field of interest from a recognised institute.
Contracts Engineer Required Skills
- Contracts Engineers possess general management skills such as the ability to act with integrity, arrange personnel workloads, use sound judgement, drive for results and focus on customer needs.
- They also have the ability to communicate with both customers and other employees within the company; take responsibility for the attendance of regular contract meetings to establish project status and conditions.
- They should have the ability to manage and exceed yearly financial targets; maximisation of gross profit margins on individual contracts; manage the financial and monthly purchases of equipment to eliminate stock carrying.
- Candidates should have a good and comprehensive knowledge of suppliers installed systems; keep up to date with technological developments within our applied industry; keep up to date with environmental developments within our applied industry.
How to become Contracts Engineer?
One has to follow below-mentioned steps for becoming a Contracts Engineer-
Step 1
After passing 12th class in science stream, students must have to go for further Bachelor’s Degree in subjects like Architecture, Construction and civil. For these courses, they have to appear in entrance tests conducted by different institutes before admission time. There are many institutes offering this course; some of the reputed colleges/universities provide them on merit basis. After passing courses, they can apply for various designations in different companies.
Engineering Degree Courses-
- B.E. (Construction Technology)
- B.Tech. (Civil Engineering)
- B.Tech. (Civil Infrastructure Engineering)
- B.Tech. (Architecture Engineering)
Courses’ Eligibility-
For these courses, candidates must be passed in 12th class in science stream with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics along with an entrance test rank.
Step 2
There are many places/companies where Master’s Degree is given credit in offering jobs to candidates. These positions are managing and research related ones. They can have this postgraduate degree in two years
Institutes offering Courses for Contracts Engineer
- Sun Institute of Technical Education and Information Technology, Hyderabad
- Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh
- Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
- Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai
Contract Engineer Job Description
A Contracts Engineer is responsible for conducting reviews and considering legal aspects of contract award and administration. They are also responsible for preparing and drafting the commercial bids and tenders. Moreover, they also estimate the costs of a project and ensure that the costs are controlled.
Contracts Engineer Career Prospects
After passing the course, Contracts Engineers have many carer options at various places such as consultancy and Construction Company or vice versa. Another option is to work as a self-employed contract engineer and be paid for each completed contract. Some of them set up their own engineering consultancies, either alone or with partners. A few of them are employed in architects’ offices as well. Contracts Engineers can also have jobs in an area related to concrete buildings or timber-framed houses and the like. Here, they mostly work pertaining to the refurbishment of buildings or changing their use, e.g. from an office to a shop or a home.
Contracts Engineer Salary
Contracts Engineers’ can earn on monthly basis a salary ranging from Rs.25,000 to Rs.35,000 on an average. But the package/pay depends on the factors like academic records, the profile of the company and market trends at the time. They can earn more than this in case they are self-employed. But in case they having jobs in companies their perks keep increasing as they gaining work experience in their particular field.
