As the BE industry transforms, new skills are now in demand, in addition to existing skills. Equipping yourself with the right skills will open opportunities to a successful BE career in the key development areas in the BE sector.
Collaborative Contracting
This skill-set equips you with the ability to coordinate and work smoothly with various stakeholders and minimise disputes from the moment they tender for projects. This involves skills such as:
- Engineering Contract Management
- Contract Administration and Management
- Dispute Resolution
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA)
This skill - set is vital for planning, designing and executing DfMA off site fabrication work for construction projects. Some of its necessary skills include:
- Additive Manufacturing
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) Application
- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
- Integrated Digital Delivery Applications
- Internet of Things Management
Green Building and Sustainability
With this skill - set, you'll know how to incorporate Sustainability and green engineering features throughout the project from its conceptualization all the way to its construction and maintenance. The crucial skills that enable you to do this include:
- Biophilic Design in Built Environment
- Design for Maintainability
- Green Building Strategy Implementation
- Green Facilities Management
- Placemaking and Programming of Spaces
- Smart Facilities Management
Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD)
Those with this skill - set know how to digitally integrate work processes and stakeholders collectively into the construction and operation of a building or system, enhancing efficiency and communication. The skills you need for this include:
- Augmented Reality Application
- Artificial Intelligence Application
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) Application
- Common Data Environment Management
- Computational Design
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Integrated Digital Delivery Application
Design for Maintainability (DfM)
This equips you with the ability to integrate operations and maintenance needs into project planning and design, to ease and enhance future maintenance after construction is completed. Some of the skills that make up this skill-set include:
- 3D Modeling
- Artificial Intelligence Application
- Design for Maintainability
- Life Cycle Costing and Analysis
- Integrated Digital Delivery
- Smart Facilities Management
Smart Facilities Management (FM)
The integration of systems, processes, technologies and personnel to enhance the management of building facilities. The skills you need for this include:
- Artificial Intelligence Application
- Building Management System Implementation and Control
- Design for Maintainability
- Green Building Strategy Implementation
- Smart Facilities Management
In the BE industry, we’re looking not just for people with the right skills, but also people with the right kind of personality and attributes, to help us innovate and build Singapore’s future. If you have these attributes below, then you’re the right fit for a career with us!
Analytical
You love analysing things from all angles and thinking of ways to make things better.
Inquisitive
You’re always curious and will keep yourself constantly informed about new ideas and developments in your areas of interest or work
Safety Conscious
You're someone who makes safety a top priority for yourself and others and looks out for risks and dangers wherever you are, whatever you do
Structured and Systematic
You like to work with orderly data—numbers, records, machine processes, and you’re comfortable with following procedures and regulations
Team Player
You’re not a lone ranger and you understand that you, like everyone else, each has a part to play in a bigger picture
WHAT’S NEXT?
Find out how you can acquire these skills and make the first step into a BE industry career here.
