S4101 - Consulting engineers, project management consulting & supervision.

Operational Details
​Consulting engineers plan, research, design, develop, evaluate, manage and organize projects and processes. With varied backgrounds, consulting engineers may have civil, structural, environmental, agricultural, mechanical, electrical and industrial expertise. These experts can fill many distinctive educational, technical, and mechanical roles that can help to solve or prevent any problems. Engineering consultants may be responsible for an entire project or only one component of a design, this is dependent on the need. Consulting engineers may provide feasibility assessments, perform environmental studies, establish assessment specifications, routinely test and monitor processes in addition to providing technical problem solving. Consulting engineers can work on site and in an office setting. An example of engineering advice or consulting is verifying the integrity of the engineering design used to construct a plant for plant owners. Another example is when an engineering firm has designed a production system that should produce so much gas or oil and the system doesn’t measure up to the design. An engineering firm is brought in to investigate why the standard has not been met and must come up with a remedy to increase production to the designed limits. Debottlenecking may be necessary, whereby new high production pumps are installed and pipe runs are re-designed, taking out kinks in the system to increase production. Engineering involves the use of computer assisted design (CAD). In addition, satellite, aerial survey analysis, and digital mapping are used in hydrographic survey analysis, water resource, geophysical, environmental, transportation, and communication design, research and analysis. Engineers may also offer engineering, procurement and construction management services. They oversee the purchasing, expediting, visual inspection, inventory control, coordinating and managing through the various stages of the project. They are contracted by and are responsible to the owner of the facility.  Survey engineering is geodetic and control surveying is an integral part of engineering. It deals with the designing, evaluating and preparing plans for the construction, production or processing or any other work that requires the application of mathematics, chemistry or physics. The survey engineer is a discipline within civil engineering. Employers who have an engineer on staff and are not in the business of earning their revenue from engineering, are to be classified in the industry they are conducting. A construction firm with its own engineers are classified in construction. An oil company often has a number of engineers on staff, however, they are classified in the oil industry and so on.  Project management consultants bring specialized skills, knowledge and management strategies to assist companies in making the best possible business decisions. They typically provide oversight and leadership in executing projects from planning to completion by leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet criteria at specified times. Site visits are often essential in keeping the project to specifications. No hands-on work is performed by the project manager. Although a project manager may recommend and supervise contractors, they are not responsible for paying any subcontractors. If the project manager is responsible for the payment of any contractors they must be classified within the industry code they support.Supervision services (engineering), not specified in any other classification, may be included here if they are not responsible for performing physical work and do not pay workers or subcontractors to perform the physical work.

SIC Codes
000000783 - Consulting engineer
000001050 - Project management consulting