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Is it common for candidates with a Level 7 qualification to apply for EngTech registration?

Kitson

Hi everyone, I’m currently on a graduate scheme at a UK organisation and have around 1.7 years of experience in the railway sector.

My long-term goal is to achieve CEng registration. In the meantime, I’m wondering whether it would be beneficial to register as EngTech first as an early-career credential and as a way of demonstrating progress towards CEng.

I understand that gaining CEng will take several more years of experience, along with building up the UK-SPEC competencies, so I’m considering whether EngTech would be worthwhile during that period.

I’d really appreciate any advice or perspectives on this, as I’m keen to understand professional registration from different angles.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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  • I am interested in the answer to this too. In the early days of the IET when IEng was new (to them), I seem to remember they tried to sell IEng and CEng as ‘equivalent but different’ rather than a progression one to the other. I don’t think anyone fell for that and it is now widely considered to be at different levels. I am interested in how EngTech fits in, as I also see some of my early careers people going for EngTech as a pathway to IEng then CEng. However, the industrial liaison person at my company objects to those on the IEng/CEng pathway applying for EngTech, as they believe that technician is a different role to that done by those destined for IEng/CEng. Do others agree with that, or do you think that EngTech and IEng are routes to CEng?

    Do you have any views on whether this would take longer? If you apply for all three, then you would need to demonstrate how you have progressed from the last to reach the standard of the next, and if you only leave this a short time then there may be a question about why you think you have gained that competence in a short time. But if you go straight for CEng, you can do that as soon as you feel you have the required competence and level of accountability, and that may be sooner than if you went EngTech -> IEng ->CEng.

  • in reply to Lee Nelson

    There are so many myths out there about registration and who can and cannot apply.  Your colleague's position counts as one. There is also the one that says you need a masters to be a CEng.  There are many more which have no basis in UKSPEC. We see a lot of successful CEng applicants that started with apprenticeships etc. 

    Absolutely nothing wrong with applying for any levels of registration. I see 100s of cases every year and see people applying for Engtech that are clearly IEng or CEng or applying for IEng and they are clearly CEng etc.  Often happens where employers pay registration bounties or where they receive advice based on myths. " you can only apply for IEng in that role or that position or at that rank!"  Lost count of the number of enlisted applicants in all the branches of the forces that achieve CEng. 

    Just on your comment re the time since the last registration etc.  This is not correct. Each application should be a whole of career application. YOu can off course have different emphasis in different parts of the career history we we are not just interested in what you have achieved since the last registration. Many successful applicants for a particular level of registration are often able to demonstrate some of the competencies required for the next level and these would not be included in any gap based application. Full career histories and let the assessors decide. 

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  • in reply to Lee Nelson

    There are so many myths out there about registration and who can and cannot apply.  Your colleague's position counts as one. There is also the one that says you need a masters to be a CEng.  There are many more which have no basis in UKSPEC. We see a lot of successful CEng applicants that started with apprenticeships etc. 

    Absolutely nothing wrong with applying for any levels of registration. I see 100s of cases every year and see people applying for Engtech that are clearly IEng or CEng or applying for IEng and they are clearly CEng etc.  Often happens where employers pay registration bounties or where they receive advice based on myths. " you can only apply for IEng in that role or that position or at that rank!"  Lost count of the number of enlisted applicants in all the branches of the forces that achieve CEng. 

    Just on your comment re the time since the last registration etc.  This is not correct. Each application should be a whole of career application. YOu can off course have different emphasis in different parts of the career history we we are not just interested in what you have achieved since the last registration. Many successful applicants for a particular level of registration are often able to demonstrate some of the competencies required for the next level and these would not be included in any gap based application. Full career histories and let the assessors decide. 

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