IPWEA NSW and ACT Professional Engineers Registration

Professional Engineers Registration - ACT Application
Anyone providing a professional engineering service in or for the Australian Capital Territory is regulated by the Professionals Engineers Act 2023. Applications for Civil engineering service providers opened on 6 March 2024 and all providers of such services must be registered by 6 March 2025.

IPWEA NSW & ACT will accept and assess applications from anyone seeking registration or registration renewal in the civil area of engineering, however, is unable to provide endorsement to practice as a professional engineer in the building industry. Application requirements are set out in our Assessment Scheme and applications will be accepted from IPWEA members and non-members. Our Assessment Scheme does not require participation in a certification scheme (e.g. CPEng; RPEng).

Please complete all details below. All necessary information about our Qualification, Experience and Comptency requirements is available in our Assessment Scheme.
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Qualifications
Upload a certified copy of your under-graduate Bachelor of Engineering degree or post-graduate Master of Engineering degree in civil engineering or a related area of engineering accredited by a signatory to the Washington Accord 1989. Each document must be certified as a true an accurate record of the original by a Justice of the Peace or equivalent certifier.*

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Experience
An applicant applying for registration must have either:

(a) Five years of full-time experience working in civil engineering or a related area of engineering with at least four years being post-graduate gained within the last 10 years.(b) The equivalent of 10 years full-time work in the previous 15 years.(c) Alternative method (see below)
Upload a copy of your resume outlining how you meet the above experience requirements. Your resume should be in PDF format and be a maximum of four pages.*

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Competency Standards
Demonstrated competency in the following five elements of competence from the Australian Engineering Competency Standards Stage 2.

Please ensure your evidence includes evidence of all five elements:

Element 1 - Deal with ethical issues

Element 2 - Practice competency.

Element 4 - Develop safe and sutainable solutions.

Element 6 - Identify, assess, and manage risks.

Element 13 - Local Engineering knowledge, according to the civil area of practice including knowledge of relevant standards and practices.

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Upload a completed and signed copy of the competency standards template in the box below.*

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Referees
Applicants are required to provided two referees to verify their experience and competence. Complete the following form and upload in the box below.

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Referees should include:
- a registered civil engineer (or a civil engineer eligible for registration) you have worked with for at least one year
- a manager / supervisor who you reported to for at least one year
Note: At least one referee must have worked with the applicant within the last 5 years
Upload two copies (one for each referee) of the completed and signed referee template in the box below.*

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Alternative Method for Satisfying Qualifications and Experience
As an alternative to the experience requirements specified above, IPWEA NSW & ACT will accept a shorter period of experience provided the applicant:

1 - meets the competency requirements listed above, and

2 - is assessed as competent to provide professional engineering services without direct supervision.
A minimum of three years post-graduate experience within the last 10 years will be accepted by IPWEA NSW & ACT if the applicant demonstrates competence as a result of accelerated learning (e.g. graduate program participation, mentoring by a registered professional engineer or endorsement by two referees) to the satisfaction of the assessor.

Applicants seeking this option must clearly demonstrate how their experience meets the requirements for the alternative method, and include this information in the experience, competencies, and referee details above.

If additional evidence is required IPWEA NSW and ACt will request this once the current evidence has been reviewed.
I am seeking registration via the alternative experience requirements outlined above.

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I am not eligible for mutual recognition under a mandatory statutory registration scheme for professional engineers in another Australian state or territory or New Zealand.I am not registered under a national accreditation scheme (e.g. CPEng, RPEng, NER).I have read and understand the conditions of the IPWEA NSW & ACT - ACT Engineering Registration Assessment Scheme.
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