Level Up Your Career

Course info…

Level Up

An Introduction

Your entry point to help you decide if the role (and the industry) is the right fit for you. You’ll learn what a Site Engineer actually does day to day, and you’ll understand the real-world costs and expectations involved before you fully commit.

Module 1: Introduction to the Role

• What setting out engineers actually do on site

• The reality of the role: pressure and responsibility

• Site access steps: CITB test to CSCS card route

Module 2: Core Knowledge for Site Engineering

• Design transfer and pre-site preparation: coordinates, levels, drawing checks, and CAD prep

• Total stations explained: what they measure, how robotic total stations work, and common Leica setups

• Site control and resection: control points, residuals, TBMs, and repeatable setups

• Troubleshooting when site does not match design: verification checks, evidence, and RFIs

• Your engineering kit: laptop spec, AutoCAD setup, and core Office tools

• Quality control on site: tolerances, evidence, and before, during, and after checks

• Record keeping that protects you: site diary standards and as-built capture

• Collaboration as the technical hub: communicating set-out clearly and keeping everyone aligned

• Tools checklist to advance onto Set Out – Advanced Course

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Advanced Course

Set Out is the advanced course designed to take you from understanding the role to delivering like a Site Engineer on real jobs.

A structured advanced course covering the full workflow from data preparation and drafting through to practical setting out and professional record keeping.

Module 1: The Basics

• Welcome and course overview

• Software setup: AutoCAD, Office 365, and PDF viewer

• OSGB coordinates explained

• Intro to data preparation for setting out

• Downloadable file tree for organised project data

Module 2: Advanced Site Drafting

• Working with different drawing data sets

• RFIs: what to ask, when to ask, and who to ask

• Converting PDF data into spreadsheets and AutoCAD-ready information

• Scaling and positioning drawings correctly

• House plots, road alignments, drainage, walls, boundaries, and gridlines

• Drainage gradients and downloadable template

• Site quality control, tolerances, and checking procedures

• File formats for drafting and setting out

Module 3: Site Setting Out

• Introduction to practical setting out

• Leica total station basics

• Leica controller basics: Captivate and iCON

• Uploading data to the controller

• Site setup: control points, residuals, TBMs, and repeatable setups

• Setting out with points, lines, and offsets

• Road alignment profiling

• Establishing a site datum

• Leica iCON walkthrough

• Leica Captivate walkthrough

Module 4: Record Keeping

• Site diary standards and managing multiple jobs

• Surveying with points, lines, and feature codes

• Exporting data for records

• As-built drawings and downloadable templates

• Producing professional drawings and PDFs

• Quality assurance checks

• Final review

Completion

• Certificate of completion

• Option to progress to the Go Pro Discord Group

Note: Access is for those who complete the Level Up - Introduction Course only.

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Graduate Access to the Discord Group

The graduates Discord Group is where the course turns into real-world progress. You’ll be alongside other students on the same learning curve, plus experienced engineers and like-minded people who are actively doing the job day to day—so you can get answers, compare approaches, and stay sharp on what actually works on site.

Use it to ask questions after you’ve finished the course, sense-check your setting out methods, troubleshoot problems, and get feedback from people who’ve been there and done it. It’s a proper community that helps you keep moving forward long after you complete the training. Like no other course available.

Note: Access is for those who complete the Set Out Advanced Course only.