this thread was a lot more helpful than what I've expected I'm currently a civil eng student undergoing training under contractor side. It was really nice to obtain hands-on experience in the site, and I'm thinking of moving forward into my career as a site project planning engineer.

can any sifus advise me how to go about this? I still have a second training next year which I may try to apply into consultant firms under design work (hopefully). But I'm still fairly interested in project planning.

I see, thanks for your reply! I'm afraid some consultant companies don't give much exposure about designing work to the new interns I do want to learn as much as possible from our trainings. As far as I know from my batchmates, they're only helping in terms of paperwork. Any company recommendations? Maybe it's better for those who have already completed their studies > internship than 3rd year halfway > internship.

It depends on the project, mine was already 80% completed so I just help out in inspection of almost finished units/supervision of workers. I don't know about our actual job scopes but I do know that the civil engs in my company will handle the structural design in the site and they will be responsible if there's any structure failure. Why not design? It's pretty exciting I'm also a female working at the site btw, most of them will treat you like their daughter/younger sister haha but you'll still have to be careful when you're alone in the site.

depends on the project I think haha if the project's until foundation stage I doubt there's any roof/shade for them to hide under it while making sure everything's according to the plan. Of course there's site office but I'm sure they'll need to frequently check the structure. I'm still not sure about their specific job scopes though.