Engineering Professional Development EPD

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Engineering Professional Development EPD

• Adeseyi Sijuwade MBA, MICE, CEng
• Project Director, Nigerian Railway Modernisation
  Project

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Contents

• Need for Human Capacity Building
• Trends and Constraints in Nigeria
• EPD through Stages of Career Development
• Self-Assessment Comparison with Model
  Competencies
• Recommendations

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Need for Human Capacity Building

• Stimulate Economic Development
• Emerging Nigerian Economy Vision 20-2020
• Foreign Direct Investments Skills required to
  attract
• Outsourcing
• New business
• Utilise Grants
• 7 Point Agenda of the present administration
• Education, Energy, Infrastructural Development,
  Security, Wealth Creation, Agricultural
  Development Land Reform
• Infrastructure Development is fundamental
• High Quality Engineers key to Infrastructure
  Development
• Service Industry requires professionalism
  entrepreneurship
• Reduction in level of Unemployment

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Trends and Constraints in Nigeria
Burden on Government - Low private sector
involvement
Dearth of Project Implementation
Low Employment Opportunities
Limited Practical Experience
Heavy Reliance on Foreigners
Low Commitment to EPD
Low Human Capacity
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EPD through Stages of Career Development

• Generic Stages of Career Development
• Junior Management
• Supervisory Management
• Middle Management
• Senior Management
• Executive Management

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Engineering Professional DevelopmentJunior
Management

• Typical Job titles Junior and Graduate Engineer
• Responsibilities taking key roles in teams as
  individuals working under direction obtaining
  experience professional training.
• Development Strategy
• Career Development Counselling
• Structured Training Programme
• Job Rotation for varied experience / Employee
  Exchange programmes
• Voluntary Work
• Seek Mentors
• Exposure to Engineering Challenges
• Seminars Site Visits
• Competitions
• Empowerment
• Self Assessment Continuous Improvement

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Engineering Professional DevelopmentMiddle
Management

• Typical Job titles Senior Engineer, Project
  Mngr, Technical Mngr
• Responsibilities management of an engineering
  team, a major project or concurrent projects,
  responsible for training development
• Development Strategy
• Short Management Training Courses
  Communications, Commercial etc
• Keeping Abreast through Engineering Journals,
  Mngt Publications etc.
• Membership of Specific Interest Groups
• Project Management and Business Development
  Training
• Cradle to Grave experience
• Exposure to Engineering Challenges
• Seminars Site Visits
• Networking
• Mentoring
• Continuous Assessment Development

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Engineering Professional DevelopmentExecutive
Management

• Typical Job titles CEO, Senior Partner, Managing
  Director
• Responsibilities strategic mngt of
  organisations, achievement of annual
  organisational plan, responsible for training
  development
• Development Strategy
• Short Management Training Courses Corporate
  Mngt, Business Dev.
• Keeping abreast with innovations Eng Journals,
  Mngt Publications etc.
• Membership of Specific Interest Groups
• Advance Financial Management Training
• Partnering Benchmarking
• Exposure to Engineering Challenges
• Seminars Site Visits
• Networking
• Mentoring
• Continuous Assessment Development

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Framework for Self-Assessment Comparison with
Model Competencies

• Engineers should take responsibility in the first
  instance for their own development
• Framework developed by the Institution of Civil
  Engineers for the Construction Industry
• Defines 12 key roles of management in the
  industry each with a number of elements that
  reflect responsibilities
• These elements require different levels of
  competence at different career stages
• Model competencies have been produced - not
  prescriptive but representative across sectors
  with commonality in management development

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Framework for Self-Assessment Comparison with
Model Competencies

• Management Levels are as defined earlier Junior
  Executive Management
• Levels of Competence
• A Appreciation Know what is meant by a term
  and what its purpose and objective is
• K Knowledge Understand in detail the
  principles of the topic and how and where they
  are applied
• E Experience Have acquired working knowledge
  and skill
• B Ability Be able to fully apply skills with
  desired results
• Project Management is one of the 12 roles. It has
  19 elements

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Framework for Self-Assessment Comparison with
Model Competencies
Determining the current or next level of
management
Carrying out a self-assessment against the roles
Comparing the assessment with model competencies
Auditing results and determining priorities
Taking the appropriate actions
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Example of Self-Assessment
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PRECONTRACT ACTIVITIES
PROGRAMMING WORK
PLANNING MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES
STAFFING RESPONSIBILITIES
SUB-CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT
SUPPLIERS CONDITIONS AND CONTROL
PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
PROGRESS MONITORING AND CONTROL
CERTIFICATION AND PAYMENT
COST CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL CONTROL
TEAM LEADERSHIP
CLIENT RELATIONS
INTEGRATED DESIGN CONSTRUCT MNGT
IMPLEMENTATION OF BEST PRACTICE
CONTINOUS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
POSITIVE PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT
MEASUREMENT AGAINST TARGETS GOALS
PROJECT REVIEW POST APPRAISAL
ELEMENTS
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MNGT LEVEL Middle Mngt Engr Ojo 02.10. 07
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Recommendations

• Engineers to be committed to self-assessment and
  continuous improvement through learning
  development
• Mentoring relationships to be facilitated within
  professional bodies (2 way mode)
• Facilitation of EPD through affiliation between
  professional bodies and engineering organisations
• Structured Training for Recognised Status /
  Continuous Review
• Development of sector-based Model Competencies
• Publication of Engineering Challenges Solutions
• Formation of Specific Interest Groups
• Affiliation with Nigerians in the Diaspora - EFN

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Recommendations Contd

• Recognition / Certification by NSE of Engineering
  Organisations with high commitment to EPD (IIP
  Award)
• Knowledge Sharing between engineering
  organisations
• Employee Exchange programmes
• Lessons Learnt on similar projects
• Benchmarking performance levels
• EPD should be contractual requirement on Govt
  Projects
• PPP is fundamental to EPD in Nigeria
• Key to boom in Infrastructure Development /
  Employment
• Promotes knowledge sharing
• Let us encourage and support it

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