CPEng Australia Requirements For Candidates With 15+ Years Of Experience

 If you have more than 15 years of experience as an engineer, you are likely to be a senior leader in your engineering profession. You would have also shown the 16 competencies necessary to get registered as a CPEng Australia many times in your career.

Taking this fact into account, Engineers Australia has made it much easier for senior engineering professionals to apply for Chartered using an interview.

This pathway has excluded the industry review and formal assessment steps, accepting your years of experience with a minimal time commitment.

Eligibility criteria for CPEng Australia:

To attain Chartership, you need to meet the following criteria:

·        A minimum of 15 years of post-graduate experience

·        You must have held major responsibility across your engineering career including leading projects and teams

·        Engineers Australia membership at Member level or higher

 

How to apply for Chartership:

After making sure that you fulfill the eligibility criteria, you need to follow the instructions given below:

1.   Pre-approval:

Create an expanded resume with details related to your major projects whose responsibility you took and your attainments. It must include the positions you had, situations, problems and opportunities you faced and the expert skills or knowledge you applied to attain a positive outcome. Its purpose is to ensure that the assessors can see how you have fulfilled the Engineers Australia competencies (16 competencies) related to your occupational category.

Within your resume, you must include the names, positions, company and contact details of two referees. One of your referees must be capable of verifying your resume and qualifications. After that, mail your resume and referees to Engineers Australia requesting to apply for Chartered for 15+ years of experience.

2.   Self-assessment:

After that, Engineers Australia will email you a self-assessment form that you need to complete. Complete this form and email it back to Engineers Australia.

If your pre-approval is confirmed, you will get another mail from Engineers Australia with a link making it easier for you to apply via the EA portal.

3.   Prepare and upload documentation:

Utilize the link you got in the mail and adhere to the prompts in the portal to upload:

·        The resume you mailed to Engineers Australia including the details of your 2 referees

·        Proof of your continuing professional development (CPD). You are required to have completed at least 150 hours of CPD over the last 3 years.

·        A color-scanned copy of your photo identification. A driver’s licence or passport is fine.

 

4.   Professional Interview:

A professional interview with an Engineers Australia evaluator is the last step towards becoming a CPEng Australia.

The authority will contact you to fix a time for your professional interview with one of its assessors, and you will get an invitation to the online Teams or Skype interview. It usually takes a few weeks for an interview to be fixed.

This interview will take nearly an hour and will include a wide discussion regarding your engineering career. The evaluator will see proof you have fulfilled the 16 competencies that are related to your occupational category. They will also use this interview to make sure that you have deep engineering knowledge and experience in your areas of practice.

You should prepare a short presentation to introduce yourself and highlight the major projects and activities to show your attainments. At most 6 to 8 slides are fine.

Application result:

You will get a confirmation mail in the EA portal after the interview. It will let you know the result of your Chartered application. The evaluator may also tell you the result of your application at the end of the interview.

On a successful Chartered application, you will get your official Chartered certificate in the email soon after.