If you are professionally qualified, you can perform Professional Reviews and End Point Assessments.
To ensure a diverse and sustainable pool of reviewers and assessors, all professionally qualified members may be asked to perform reviews, following relevant training.
We welcome those who can contribute for a short number of years to those who can support over the long-term.
As well as conducting reviews and assessments, you can support and mentor trainees towards completion of their IPD.
Three ways to get involved
ICE reviewers are professionally qualified members who assess candidates taking their Professional Review and apprenticeship End Point Assessment (EPA).
Being an ICE reviewer advances your engineering knowledge, and skills while helping aspiring engineers.
Josie Rothera, consultant trainer, PL Projects
With around 1,000 members, our reviewer community thrives on mutual support, shared wisdom and the aim of supporting engineers. As well as networking opportunities, reviewers can undertake additional responsibilities as a panel member or trainer.
What are the benefits of becoming an ICE reviewer or end point assessor?
- Develop critical thinking and interviewing skills
- Enhance your CV
- Grow your professional network and share your expertise
- Enrich your industry knowledge from seeing candidates’ work
- Boost your CPD
- Uphold high standards in the profession
- Allow you to give back to the engineering community that once supported you
Watch our webinar to find out more
In this webinar, Dr Alistair Hitchcock, a reviewer and co-chair of the Professional Review Panel, explains what the role entails, the benefits and how to apply.
Training
A day of comprehensive training will be provided and you will also observe a live review. This will allow you to confidently assess others, as you were once assessed.
The training sessions are very well structured, packed with informative and important content.
The presenter gave us lots of insight and practical advice about how to undertake the professional review as a competent reviewer.
He is very experienced and presented the course in an enthusiastic way.
Richard Yuan, associate technical director from Arcadis, who trained as a reviewer in 2023.
Application and training dates
We accept applications all year round but the dates below will allow you to submit your application in time to be invited to the corresponding training sessions.
| Submit application by | Application decision | Training dates |
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| 09 July 2024 | 27 August 2024 |
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| 28 October 2024 | 07 January 2025 |
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| 10 March 2025 | 06 May 2025 |
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| 07 July 2025 | 01 September 2025 |
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| 27 October 2025 | 07 January 2026 |
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Expectations
In the first 12 months you’re expected to conduct six professional reviews or end point assessments over two or three interview days (paired with an experienced reviewer or assessor).
Reviewers also need to prepare for the review and document their assessment and candidate feedback.
How to apply
If you'd like to join our team, please submit your application and upload it via the portal.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
We need professionally qualified members to assess candidates for ‘further learning’ towards their academic base.
Many members show competence and commitment beyond the level set by their current academic base, but circumstances prevent them from undertaking further formal study to step up to the next level.
ICE has developed assessment methods to see if candidates have developed the level of understanding required by the Engineering Council’s Learning Outcomes in the course of their career, opening up opportunities for those who would otherwise be held back.
We have two positions to support this pathway to professional qualification:
- Experiential learning assessors review candidates working towards IEng MICE or CEng MICE. Assessors are paired and expected to be available every two months and commit approximately twelve hours each year. Assessments occur in February, April, June, August, October and December.
- Further learning exam script markers assess candidates working towards CEng MICE. Script markers are paired and will be required in March and October. You’re expected to mark a minimum of ten scripts, which is a yearly commitment of approximately twenty hours.
Assessors need to be competent, experienced and professionally qualified ICE members (CEng and IEng) and professionally active. You will look at candidates' written submissions to determine if they have demonstrated the required standard.
It has been great to continue to support the ICE and give that feeling of supporting and giving back to the future generation.
But on a personal level, it has helped me develop communication skills and also take this into the workplace to support candidates through other routes of ICE towards professional status.
Stephen Ragget-Batchen, an experiential learning assessor and exam script marker for Further Learning
When you become an assessor, we ask you to attend a briefing and shadow a pair of experienced assessors to observe the assessment and moderation process.
This form of volunteering is ideal for members who are interested in becoming ICE professional reviewers.
Ready to get started?
If you're ready to begin, get in touch with the team today to talk through assessor or script marking roles.
You can support trainees in your organisation successfully through to professional qualification.
As a supervising civil engineer, or delegated engineer, you will be a role model and mentor to trainees and will:
- Help trainees to join your company's ICE Training Scheme
- Identify learning and development opportunities for your trainees
- Review and sign off their experience and appraisals
Supervising civil engineers and delegated engineers are expected to attend training at least once every two years. And we expect you to set an example to your trainees in terms of professional standards, particularly for CPD.
For those in companies without an ICE Training Scheme, you can become a mentor and help trainees, in your own or another company, through Mentor-Supported Training for IPD. To become a mentor, you attend a formal briefing where you be briefed and supported by an ICE Membership Development Officer. If successful, you can start mentoring a trainee through their initial professional development.
- Training scheme guidance
- Mentor supported training guidance
- Courses, workshops and membership surgeries
Ready to get started?
If you're ready to begin supporting fellow engineers, get in touch with the team today to talk through SCE and Mentor roles.
