Andrew Bracken has 19 years of experience in the construction industry, predominantly in the water and gas industries, and now works as a Senior Engineer for J Murphy & Sons Construction company. Andrew started his career for Laing O’Rourke as a site engineer, where his duties would include translating designs into construction, setting out the site for the workers, checking for quality and surveying the works. Andrew then returned to education on one day per week to obtain a degree which helped him to progress onto the next step in his civil engineering career path: a senior engineering role. In this role, Andrew’s duties would include running smaller projects or sections of works on major projects, managing site engineers and producing a lot of the working documentation and procedures.

Today, in his role as senior engineer, Andrew’s work day involves managing the site team of engineers and making sure they have all the correct information they need to fulfil their roles. I work closely with the project manager, quantity survey and planner in managing the projects to a happy and safe completion, on time and on budget. More specifically, my role includes checking that the design and works are carried out to the correct standards and specifications and producing the quality plans and carry out the role as temporary works supervisor - meaning I’m in control and management of all temporary works on site. On top of that, if any lifting needs to be done, I’ll be on site producing and reviewing all lift plans.