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WHY CANNOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BE A QS.

John Peckham

It would appear that the IET EAS document now requires a QS to be an NVQ qualified electrician.

In the same way a building surveyor needs to be professionally qualified person who does not need to be a bricklayer but needs to know how bricks should be laid why cannot a professionally registered electrical engineer with an 18th Edition Qual. and C and G 2391 with maybe a Level 4 2396 design qualification be a QS?

The so called competent person schemes do not register electricians. They only register “enterprises” which have to have a single assessed person who is responsible for the technical standards in the company. It would appear a spotty faced youth with an NVQ 3 with minimal experience can be a QS but a Charted Engineer with decades of experience cannot be?

Before you ask I was the NICEIC PDH and  QS  for my own company for 15 years up until last year.

I would be interested in your views? 

 

 

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    I talked to a couple of guys who were working for Central Networks when it was taken over by Western Power, they said that the new America owners were getting rid of many jobs that existed from before they took over.

    I was told that the guys who walked the electric lines to carry out the visual inspections were some of the first to go, because the new owners replaced them with helicopters.

    Next was a whole tier of middle management who supervised site work, apparently the Americans could not understand why a skilled and qualified workforce would need so much supervision.

    Which begs the question, if a firm has skilled and qualified electricians what purpose does the role of QS serve?

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    I talked to a couple of guys who were working for Central Networks when it was taken over by Western Power, they said that the new America owners were getting rid of many jobs that existed from before they took over.

    I was told that the guys who walked the electric lines to carry out the visual inspections were some of the first to go, because the new owners replaced them with helicopters.

    Next was a whole tier of middle management who supervised site work, apparently the Americans could not understand why a skilled and qualified workforce would need so much supervision.

    Which begs the question, if a firm has skilled and qualified electricians what purpose does the role of QS serve?

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