Ernest Etim
Senior Engineer
After graduating with a BEng Hons in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2012, I enrolled at Nottingham Trent University, where I earned a MSc in Structural Engineering with Management in 2014. I spent that summer working as an industrial trainee engineer for Julius Berger Nigeria Plc., where I was involved in the laboratory testing of materials for quality control and site supervision on multiple construction stage projects in Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria. Some of the more noteworthy projects included the construction of Uyo International Stadium, Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre in Uyo, Abak Bridge and the A342 Ikot Ekpene/Uyo Road dual carriageway construction project.
The following year, I gained a PgDip in Sustainable Energy from Trinity College Dublin and joined ROD as a graduate engineer. During the two-year graduate programme, I contributed to projects across a range of markets, including water, transportation, research and development and bridges. I also spent nine months working as an assistant resident engineer on the construction stage of the N56 - Mountcharles to Drumbeigh scheme in Donegal. The experience gave me a better appreciation of the central role engineers play in all phases of a road project - from design to handover - and just how much our work impacts on society.
Fast-forward ten years and I now a senior engineer within the transportation team, a role that involves contributing to the design services on a range of transportation and civil engineering-related projects.
