Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Special civil engineering works builder (m/f)*
Recognized by ordinance of June 2, 1999 (BGBl. I p. 1102)

Duration of traineeship

3 years

The venues for training are company and vocational school (Berufsschule)

Field of activity

Special civil engineering works builders carry out their work on the basis of technical documents and job orders, both independently and in cooperation with others. They plan and coordinate their work, consult and coordinate with others working on the site, set up construction sites and take the measures required for smooth-running operations, for health and safety at work and to protect the environment at the job site. They check their work to ensure error-free execution, document their work, carry out quality assurance measures, calculate job performance data and hand the vacated job site on.

When carrying out the following activities, special civil engineering works builders use plant and machinery, they erect and dismantle scaffolding for work, protection and support purposes and measure constructions and elements thereof for proper fit.

Special civil engineering works builders

• carry out excavation work, line construction pits and trenches, fill in and compress earth and build embankments,
• carry out groundwater lowering work,
• investigate the site ground, take soil samples, examine and label these and keep soil-course records,
• drill holes, for example as preparation for load-bearing structures, for examining the ground at the site, for extracting and infeeding water and for lowering the groundwater,
• use drilling equipment and apply different drilling techniques,
• develop boreholes into wells,
• lay pipelines and attach the corresponding fittings,
• fit prefabricated units used in well construction and pipeline installation,
• install water transportation systems,
• build bulkheads for ground water measuring systems,
• build piles and anchor systems,
• carry out injection work,
• carry out pile-driving, jolt-compaction and vibro-compaction work,
• upgrade the quality of the ground to form the foundation site,
• maintain plant, equipment and machinery used for special civil engineering works. 

Occupational skills

Additionally, special civil engineering works builders carry out related tasks in the field of building construction.

Fußnoten

*Stage 2 of a graduated training in the construction industry;
Stage 1: civil engineering worker (m/f)

Last modified on: December 12, 2006