Civil Engineers

Civil Engineers (17-2051)

Occupation description: Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. Includes architectural, structural, traffic, ocean, and geo-technical engineers. Excludes Hydrologists (19-2043).

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Employment and Job Openings

	Average employment			Average annual openings
	2014 estimate	2024 projection	Percent change	Growth	Replacement	Total
Alaska	1,063	1,088	2.4	3	32	34
United States	281,400	305,000	8.4	2,360	8,310	10,670

Job outlook

Alaska: Alaska’s employment growth is low with very high employment opportunities. Read more.

2015 Wages

	Mean Wage	Wage by Percentile
	Mean	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
United States	42.28	25.43	31.13	39.53	50.35	62.43
Alaska	52.91	34.03	41.03	49.83	61.09	75.73
Anchorage/Mat-Su Area	54.79	34.14	41.66	51.92	63.91	79.39
Fairbanks North Star Borough	47.19	33.83	39.65	46.45	54.56	63.52
Southeast Region	48.08	33.15	38.15	48.35	56.72	68.18
Balance of State	54.46	38.30	42.62	47.48	68.37	77.42

Labor Force Indicators

2014 Worker Characteristics
Total workers	Nonresident workers	Percent nonresident	Percent age 45 plus	Percent age 50 plus
972	83	8.5	45.1	35.2

2014 Potential Supply

Qualified but working in another occupation	109
Currently employed in a lower paid occupation	60
UI claimants previously working in occupation	27

2014 ALEXsys Employment Data

Number of registrants	170
Number of job position postings	122
Ratio of registrants to job position postings	1.4

Typical Entry-level Education, Experience, and/or On-the-job Training

Education: Bachelor’s degree

Work experience: None

On-the-job training: None

Training Resources

	Degree
Alaska Petroleum Academy (Kenai)
Cook Inlet Training Standards/24 Hour Hazwoper
Cook Inlet Training Standards/Hazwoper Refresher
Petroleum Chemical Health and Safety
Petroleum Chemical Health and Safety Refresher

	Degree
Alaska Teamster-Employer Service Training Trust (Anchorage)
North Slope Training Cooperative

	Degree
Alaska West Training Center (Fairbanks)
Hydrogen Sulfide - H2S
Petroleum Technician - ER06
Petroleum Workers Safety and Health - S05
Unescorted Module - NSTC01

	Degree
Beacon Occupational Health and Safety Services (Anchorage)
Cook Inlet Training Standards & Industrial Safety (CITS)	Certificate
North Slope Training Cooperative (NSTC) Unescorted with/without H2S	Certificate

	Degree
Conscious Solutions (Anchorage)
Change & Time Management

	Degree
Environmental Management Inc (Anchorage)
EPA/AHERA Project Design Refresher	Certificate
NSTC 6 PACK & H2S Module	Certificate

	Degree
Ilisagvik College (Barrow)
Industrial Safety, Level 1	Endorsement

	Degree
Northern Industrial Training (Palmer)
NSTC 2014 ASH Update
NSTC Confined Space Entry
NSTC Energy Isolation
NSTC Fall Protection
NSTC H2S Module
NSTC Respiratory Protection
NSTC Unescorted
PEC Basic Orientation
PEC Core Compliance

	Degree
Nu-Solutions Consulting (Anchorage)
Advanced Primavera P6, Fundamentals Professional Client, Course 106-P	Certificate
Advanced Project Modeling and Estimating, Class E-201	Certificate
Essentials of HD Performance HD P101
Essentials of Project Modeling and Estimating, Class E-101	Certificate
Hybrid Primavera P6 102, for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Projects
Managing Risk in Primavera Risk Analysis, Course 501
Migrating from P3 to Primavera P6
Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Course 201	Certificate
Primavera P6 Advanced
Primavera P6 Analytics 11g
Primavera P6 Fundamentals Rel15 (P6 Web), Course 101	Certificate
Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals, Course 102	Certificate
Primavera P6 Reporting with BI Publisher 11g
Primavera P6, Application Administration 15, Course 106-A	Certificate
Project Management in Oracle Primavera Contractor, Course 700
Resource Management in Oracle Primavera P6, Course 106-R	Certificate
Resource Management in Oracle Primavera Web Access, Course 107	Certificate
Scheduling in Oracle Primavera P6 and Contractor, for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Projects	Certificate

	Degree
University of Alaska Anchorage (Anchorage)
Civil Engineering	Bac
Civil Engineering	Mas
Civil Engineering	Mas
Earthquake Engineering	Lic
Engineering Management	Mas
Geographic Information Systems	CT1
Science Management	Mas

	Degree
University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)
Civil Engineering	Bac
Civil Engineering	Mas
Civil Engineering	Mas

	Degree
University of Alaska, Mining and Petroleum Training Service (Soldotna)
North Slope Training Consortium (NTSC)

	Degree
Vocational Training and Resource Center (Juneau)
Drafting with AutoCAD

Alaska Economic Trends articles

Civil Engineering in Alaska (April 2011)

Engineer Shortage: Myth vs. Reality (November 1983)