Hi all. I’m currently a Quality Engineer working for a Tier 1 civil construction company. I’ve been privileged enough to work in 3 big project the last two years, mainly hired as a PE but was assigned as a QE for all these projects and really loved it.

The problem is, I do not see any career progression for my career path in the company due to not having a structured Quality career path in the arm of the business I am in. I am trying to move forward with possibly getting an SQE role and want to do a ISO 9001 auditing course to support this. I’ve improved the quality systems and processes in the business, improved my digital engineering knowledge and in the process also became an unofficial quality advisor and quality manager for projects. I’ve trained both my team and client to use new technologies and in the process, have upskilled them. However in my current team, I am only seen as the QA paperwork person. The systems I have assisted in maturing and developing are not embraced to the fullest extent by the field engineers, and I feel like I’m not valued for my time and efforts.

I feel very lost. I want to develop the company’s quality systems more and work in that space, or even step up and be a SQE/PM for the next projects, but my last conversation with my bosses, it doesn’t feel like I am heading towards that direction at all.

I really do like Quality but also Digital Engineering in a construction space. Not really sure what I should be doing.

I have been working as an engineer for almost 8 years - worked in construction/mining for 2, and client/government for 6.

Would be awesome if I can get advice from fellow Quality people. Thanks!

Edit: typo

Everything has to be finished in a short deadline, lack of lunch breaks, no annual leave, super, constant nitpicking, people bragging about how much work they do compared to other people, for example they try and prove they can do a big job quickly just to prove a point, making sexual jokes, blowing second hand smoke, people who possibly do drugs, going to a job it rains then we have to drive somewhere far away like half a city away like 50-70km away sometimes more , full of aggressive people, bosses not paying on time, constant overtime, treating apprentices like trash. Is construction the worst industry out there?

And not in the way you think… I think it was too cheap. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m glad not to pay more. But I had 6 guys hang 180 sheets of drywall. It took them about 15 hours. They only asked for 3500 bucks. I was surprised. They did probably an A- job, had nice hilti tools, nice truck, nice box trailer. That averages out to 38 bucks an hour? I don’t get how they can run a business for that much. Unless the head guy is paying himself 50 or more and those guys 35 or less. Which would be criminal. But I could see it.

I get subcontracted to run a retail commercial jobsite. I travel the US for work for aprx 8 weeks at a time. Any flights home is out of my pocket (which I use as an expense while doing taxes).

I get a weekly salary of 1700, 700/week for lodge and 150/per diem for food. So at the end of the week I get 2550. I try not to max my perdiems so I can pocket that, obviously. My job is to run the project, no physical work. Any physical work I'll invoice them at the end of the project.

I get a work van. They pay all maintenance and gas from jobsite to jobsite and jobsite to home/vice-versa. They also pay tolls. Anything outside of that I pay for gas/tolls myself (exploring and wondering surrounding cities).

After completion of the job, I usually get a 1700 payout (a week's salary) as a "thank you." Not always, but 9 times out of 10 they pay that.

Is this fair or low?

Thank you all in advance for any possible responses.

If you take Monday or Friday off for "medical" or "family" reasons you're just a drunk or lazy.

I've never called off work, even when my father passed I skipped out on the funeral cause fuck that there's no time to grief when I have a wife and her boyfriend along with their two kids to feed and have a roof over them.

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Hey all, I need some help with a problem I've never had to deal with before. I have a floor to level that is in terrible condition. As it sits right now the 200sq ft space would take 35-38 bags of self-leveler and exceed 1 1/4 inch thick in some areas, which means 2 visits with lathe installed as well. This also would create terribly high transitions between adjacent rooms.

There is a roughly 40sq ft hump that can come down 1/2 inch to match my next highest points. This would reduce my leveler thickness to 3/4 at the lowest point and average the whole floor to only take 13-15 bags. In my region we typically charge double the cost of material to prep, supply and install leveler. So saving the client 20 bags and the lathe would be worth it if we can throw a day of labour at it taking out the high spot.

I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. I have a hilti DGH 150 and dust extractor, but I feel like that would take ages to take off half an inch. I'm wondering if a bushing bit for my 2inch SDS max hammer would be a faster way to remove that material? Or even a bushing bit for my TE-1500 jackhammer is a better option? I don't have much experience with a bushing bit, I've been able to get away with the surface grinder and small cup grinders so far.

I'm open to any ideas. It even crossed my mind to just jackhammer that whole high spot out and use bagged concrete to pour it lower and level over the top. I'm just not sure how the cure time for that would impact leveling over it