Entry Level Qualification 

10

Career Fields 

Architecture & Planning

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

JEE MAIN BARCH, NATA

About Career 

As a contractor, your main role is to take contracts for construction, renovation, or demolition projects. As a Contractor, you will be responsible for coordinating and supervising the work at construction sites from A to Z of a project. You will be managing the labor force of the project underway and ensuring that all requirements are fulfilled. Contractors are the liaisons between the construction teams and the clients.

The Contractors who work on big projects can be considered managers of the project and should have complete control over the workforce. If contractors work on smaller projects, they need to show their effort for long hours of labor.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As a Contractor, you will: -

1. Hold discussions with the clients and understand the requirements of construction.

2. Read, comprehend, and understand the construction blueprints, technical drawings, plans, specifications for construction materials, etc.

3. Plan for the project, estimate material and labor requirements, and estimate construction cost budgets.

4. Present the cost budget to clients or fill tender documents to bid for construction projects.

5. Once you win a construction contract, you will complete all documentation required by the client to begin the construction project.

6. Take all the necessary permissions or permits from the authorities before a construction project begins, during the construction, and at the end of the construction as required.

7. Procure and make all the construction materials available to the laborers in due time.

8. Oversee construction activities and ensure that the constructions are being done as per blueprint, technical drawings, plans, material specifications, and as the overall requirement of the clients.

9. Ensure that all construction activities are carried out as per legal requirements and as per different laws and regulations governing construction projects.

10. Ensure that the construction is carried out in compliance with all regulations applicable to the specific construction activities.

11. Control all expenditures for the construction project and ensure that the cost remains within the budgeted amount.

12. Ensure that the construction is completed within the time estimated.

13. Handle all issues, problems, and crises at the construction site.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies – Diploma in Civil / Construction / Mechanical / Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering - Work experience of 8-10 years.

After Class 10, you can apply for a Diploma in Civil / Construction / Mechanical / Electrical and Electronics Engineering. You need to have prior work experience of 8-10 years in civil/mechanical / electrical construction to become a contractor in the specialized field.

After Class 12, you can apply for B.E. / B.Tech. in Civil / Construction / Mechanical / Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering. You need to have prior work experience of 5-8 years in civil/mechanical / electrical construction to become a contractor in the specialized field.

After Class 12, you can apply Bachelor’s degree in any subject. You need to have prior work experience of 8-10 years in a firm that undertakes civil/mechanical/electrical construction projects to become a contractor in the specialized field. You need not be technically qualified to get a job as a contractor, you can learn on the job. You can set up your own business too and hire technical persons under you.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

1. If you have done Class 10, you can apply for a Diploma in Civil / Construction / Mechanical / Electrical / Electrical and Electronics engineering / a similar field.

2. After your Class 11-12, you can apply B.E. / B.Tech. In Civil / Construction / Mechanical / Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering / Similar field.

Competencies Required

1. Realistic - You should have an interest in Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 

2. Investigative - You should have an interest in Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve the use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision-making, and problem-solving.

3. Enterprising   - You should have an interest in Enterprising Occupations. Enterprising occupations involve taking initiative, initiating actions, and planning to achieve goals, often business goals. These involve gathering resources and leading people to get things done. These require decision-making, risk-taking, and action orientation.

4. Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

5. Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.

6. Civil construction - Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as industrial factories, dams, bridges, highways, and roads.

7. English Language - Knowledge about English grammar, words, spelling, sentence construction, using English to communicate with others, reading in English, etc.

8. Active Learning - Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation, and otherwise for application in getting work done.

9. Critical Thinking - Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

10. Coordination - Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

After your Diploma / Bachelors’ Degree in Engineering, you can get a job with:

1. An EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) company

2. An EPIC (Engineering, Procurement, Installation, and Commissioning) Company

3. A Real Estate development company

4. A General / civil/mechanical / electrical contractor

Some of the companies where you can get an entry-level job are: Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Gammon India, Simplex Infrastructure, Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd., Reliance Infrastructure, Lanco Infratech, Punj Lloyd, Nagarjuna Construction, GMR, GVK, Continental Construction, IRB. etc.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

1. Civil Contractors

Civil Contractors take up various types of civil construction projects – such as the construction of residential buildings, commercial buildings, shopping complexes, factories, monuments, roads, bridges, railways, airports, dams, tunnels, etc. 

2. Mechanical Contractors

Mechanical Contractors take on various types of mechanical construction projects – such as large machinery, industrial process plants, HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning systems), industrial ducting and piping, large-scale plumbing at factories, water treatment plants, waste treatment plants, pollutant treatment plants, building automation systems, elevators, fire protection systems, etc. 

3. Electrical Contractors

Electrical Contractors take up various types of electrical construction projects – such as construction of power plants, construction and installation of power transmission and distribution systems, electrical power systems inside large-scale residential and commercial buildings, shopping malls, railway stations, airports, etc., installation of instrumentation control systems in industrial plants, and so on. 

Career Growth

While you work in a construction company to gain experience before setting up your contractor firm, you can grow through the ranks in the company. You can progress from an Assistant Engineer – Engineer – Senior Engineer / Project Engineer / Deputy General Manager - General Manager – Senior General Manager - Executive Engineer and so on.

Salary Offered  

1. As a contractor, your earnings will vary widely as setting up and establishing a business in a construction contract is very difficult as the industry is highly competitive.

2. At the beginning of your business as a Contractor, you will not be making much. Your net earnings (after deducting all your business expenses from the business earnings) could be between Rs. 5,000 – 50,000 a month.

3. However, with experience and reputation, after 8-10 years in business (if you can survive the early stage struggle), you can earn anything between Rs. 20,000 – 1,00,000 or even more per month.

4. Once your business is established after 15-20 years, depending upon your scale of business (whether small business or medium size or large size business), you can earn lakhs or even crores every month. All these depend upon your track record and reputation.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also shortly, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Communicating with co-workers and others - Communicating with people in writing, verbally, or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc., or with people at large.

2. Decision-making and problem-solving - Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

3. Addressing grievances and resolving conflicts - Handling complaints and grievances to resolve; resolving conflicts among co-workers or others at the workplace or outside of your work.

4. Scheduling tasks - Scheduling project timelines, tasks and activities.

5. Getting Information and learning - Observing, hearing, and reading using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

6. Organizing, planning, and prioritizing tasks - Planning and organizing tasks to achieve work goals; prioritizing tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

7. Communicating with customers - Communicating with potential and existing customers of your organization in writing, verbally, or otherwise.

8. Developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships - Developing professional relationships with co-workers and others outside organizations and maintaining good relationships.