Rosie achieves Technician Member status
Swansea based engineer Rosie Jay has been awarded Technician Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
Rosie, recently qualified as a Technician Member and is now entitled to add the letters TMICE to her name. ICE Technician Membership can be awarded to a wide range of engineers practising in the broad area of civil engineering. ICE's professionally qualified grades of membership are internationally recognised and highly valued. Attainment of these is widely viewed as a significant achievement and a benchmark of an engineer or technician’s competence and professional standing.
Rosie was presented her membership certificate by ICE President, Richard Coackley at an admission ceremony held at the ICE headquarters in Westminster, London.
ICE Wales Cymru Director, Keith Jones commented: “Civil engineering is an important engineering discipline sitting right at the heart of society. It is all about creating, improving and protecting the infrastructure that we all depend on in our day-to-day lives – from bridges, roads and railways right through to energy networks and water and waste infrastructure. The magnificent 2012 Olympics venues and surrounding infrastructure, for example, are also the work of our civil engineers.
“Technician members in particular apply proven techniques to solve practical problems. They carry supervisory or technical responsibility and can exercise creative aptitudes and skills within defined fields of technology. Achieving Technician Membership is a significant personal and career achievement and those who have qualified gain greater recognition for their skills in delivering technical civil engineering solutions. We welcome Rosie into the Institution. I’m also personally delighted that Rosie has achieved Technician status as I have got to know her well during the last year in her role as Chairman’s Apprentice to immediate past ICE Wales Cymru Chairman, Ian Davies, who is also from Swansea.”
Rosie, who is currently working on the Porthcawl Harbour Basin for BAM Nuttall, said she was thrilled to become a Technician Member.
Rosie became an engineer because she went on a “women in engineering” day when she was in year 12.
“The event opened my eyes to civil engineering. It seemed to be the perfect job for me because as well as being able to work outside I could also use the skills, especially maths, which I enjoyed doing at school.
“I changed my university options and went to Swansea University to study for a civil engineering degree. Looking back on it now though I could have done it through an apprenticeship and I feel that this would have been just as valuable.”
She continued: “It is a fantastic career where you really get to see what you have designed or built. I went into the contracting side of civil engineering where I get to translate the plans from paper to real life and at the end of a project you can really appreciate how far you have come in the duration of the project.”
Although Rosie has only been a qualified civil engineer for two years she has already worked on a number of key projects in south Wales.
“My favourite job so far was working in Ystrad Mynach on a highways improvement scheme. On this site I really grew as an engineer and had responsibility for my own sections of work which made me feel very proud. Since then I have worked on a larger highways job in Newport and I have just started working in Porthcawl on a coastal job, which is the type of engineering I have always wanted to go into, so I am very excited about this project,” she said.
The opportunity to join ICE is available to civil engineers, technicians and technical/scientific specialists at every stage of their professional career, from students and apprentices to senior board directors.