Title: What Does a Civil Engineer Do?
Headings: What Does a Civil Engineer Do?
What Does a Civil Engineer Do?
What Civil Engineers Do
Characteristics of Civil Engineers
Employment
Salary

Content: What Does a Civil Engineer Do? Government Careers Occupations
What Does a Civil Engineer Do? •••
Frisco/Getty Images
By
Full Bio
Follow
LinkedIn with Background
Linkedin
Michael Roberts wrote about government careers for The Balance Careers, has experience in state government, and was a newspaper reporter. Read The Balance's editorial policies
Michael Roberts
Updated October 22, 2018
Civil engineers are highly trained professionals who plan public works projects and supervise their implementation. Most work in the private sector, but a good portion of them work in government. Their work is all around us. The infrastructure that moves people and commerce around the country was designed and implemented under the guidance of generations of civil engineers. What Civil Engineers Do
Civil engineers design and supervise construction of major public works projects such as buildings, highways, airports, bridges, and dams. They can either work for a government organization or in private industry competing for government contracts. Since there are so many different types of projects a civil engineer can undertake, many of them specialize in a type of project or branch of the profession such as transportation engineering, structural engineering or geotechnical engineering.