How competent are you?

Mark Cooper IEng MILP

VP Membership

How competent are you?

What is competency?
Who needs it and why?
How is competency assessed?
What can I do?
Why should I?

What is competency?

What is competency?

Training and Skills Formal education and

/ or work based learning
Knowledge - Awareness or understanding
of a circumstance or fact, gained through
association or experience.
Experience repeated practice and
reflective learning

What is competency?

Commitments:
Bond of moral duty (whether of necessity or
of one's own choosing)
Professional code of conduct (ILP and / or
EC)
Understanding limits of your own abilities!

What is competency?

Our level of competency and project

roles will change as our careers
progress, therefore we need to
maintain / develop our knowledge and
skills

CPD

Who needs it and why?

Clients
Under CDM the client has a duty to appoint
competent designers and/or contractors
You
In this current financial climate, it is in your
best interest to be seen as the most qualified /
experienced members of the design team.

How is competency assessed?

CDM 2007
Regulation 4 - Clients must ensure that designers,
contractors and other team members that they
propose to engage are competent
Membership of a relevant professional institution, for
example CIBSE; ICE; IMechE; IStructE; RIBA; RICS;
CIAT; CIOB,is a strong indicator that a designer
has the necessary task knowledge and an ability to
recognise the health and safety implications of
their design work.

CDM and designers?

CDM2007 regulation 2:
Designers are those who have a trade or a business which
involves them in:
Preparing designs for construction work, including variations.
This includes preparing drawings, design details,
specifications, bills of quantities and the specification (or
prohibition) of articles and substances, as well as all the
related analysis, calculations, and preparatory work; or
Arranging for their employees or other people under their
control to prepare designs relating to a structure or part of a
structure.

CDM and designers?

Designers therefore include:
Architects, civil and structural engineers, building
surveyors, landscape architects, other consultants,
manufacturers and design practices of whatever
discipline contributing to, or having overall
responsibility for, any part of the design,

Membership

Affiliate
Associate Member (Eng Tech)
Member (IEng / CEng)
Hon Member
Fellow
Hon Fellow

Membership

Associate Members perform specialist technical

roles and apply proven knowledge, techniques and
procedures to the solution of lighting technology or
management problems in a variety of contexts. You
will also have an element of personal responsibility.
Completion of ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma
(including Module 4) would normally result in award
of Eng Tech AMILP

Membership

Members of the ILP are professional practitioners

with sufficient experience and progression to be
operating at a responsible level in a lighting-related
role, requiring a high degree of innovation,
creativity and change to design, in order to
implement and produce lighting solutions.

What can I do?

Join a professional Institution!

Speak to Regional Membership Officer
Complete the application form /
transfer grade
Initial assessment
Professional assessment interview

Why Should I?

For Registered Engineers:

It is easier to gain promotion or a new job
Their pay compares favourably with non-registered engineers
and increasingly against other qualified professionals
They have greater influence within their organisation and
industry
Their engineering credentials are respected in most parts of the
world
They have access to a network of similarly qualified and
experienced experts in their field - through their Institution

Why Should I?

For their employers:

Increasingly, tendering or post-tender contract compliance requires
key members of the project team to have professional registration.
Increased technical credibility with customers
Assurance that the employee has satisfied a rigorous assessment of
their engineering competence
Confirmation that the engineering credentials being claimed are
actually held
Assurance that the employee is keeping up-to-date with professional
codes of conduct and has the means to do this
A means to satisfy requirements of the Quality Management Systems
standard ISO 9001:2008

What should I do now?

Contact RMO
Contact me
twitter

mark.cooper@jacobs.com
@mclight0112

Contact Chantal
Info

Chantal@theilp.org.uk
www.theilp.org.uk

Thanks for your attention