How To Apply For CPEng Australia With 15+ Years of Experience

Having 15+ years of experience as an engineer can help you attain CPEng Australia status. It means you can become a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia.

Now, you must be wondering how. This article is written as an answer to this question. It is because here, we will tell you how to apply for a Chartership if having more than 15 years of experience. So, read the whole blog with your undivided attention. However, before we tell you about the application process, you should know the eligibility criteria you need to satisfy for applying.

Eligibility criteria:

To be eligible to apply, you are required to have:

·        A minimum of 15 years of post-graduate experience.

·        Having held major responsibility across your career including leading projects and teams.

·        Engineers Australia membership at Member level or higher.

How to apply:

When eligible, follow the instructions provided below:

1.   Pre-approval:

Make an expanded resume that details the major projects you took the responsibility for and your major attainments. It could include the positions you held, problems, situations, and opportunities you have had, and expert knowledge and skills you applied to attain a positive result.

The purpose of this is to ensure the evaluators can see how you have fulfilled the 16 competencies related to your occupational category.

Within your resume, you should 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, email your resume and referees to Engineers Australia requesting to apply for Chartered for 15+ years of experience.

2.   Self-assessment:

After that, EA will email you a self-assessment form that you have to complete. Complete this form and email it back to the authority.

If your pre-approval is confirmed, you will get another email from EA with a link that will allow you to apply via the EA portal.

3.   Make and upload documents:

You need to use the link sent to you in the mail and adhere to the prompts in the portal to upload:

The resume you mailed to EA with the details of your two referees.

A colour-scanned copy of your photo identification. Besides that, a passport or driving licence is.

Proof of your continuing professional development (CPD). You need to have completed a minimum of 150 hours of CPD over the previous 3 years.

4.   Professional interview:

A professional interview with an EA assessor is the last step to attaining the CPEng Australia status.

Engineers Australia 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.

The interview will last nearly one hour and will include a wide discussion regarding your engineering career. The evaluator will search for proof you have fulfilled the 16 Engineers Australia competencies related to your occupational category. They will also use the interview to ascertain the depth and breadth of your engineering knowledge and experience in your practice area.

It’s recommended but not compulsory to prepare a short presentation in which you introduce yourself and highlight the major projects or activities illustrating your attainments. Slides should be between six and eight.