Engineering Surveying for beginners, graduates, assistant and junior engineers
Our Beginners to Advanced Engineering Surveying course is the perfect choice for those looking to kickstart or advance their career in construction engineering. This is the Level 3 Diploma in Engineering surveying for experienced engineers, but we will train you to achieve good competency to pass the assessments and achieve your diploma qualification.
We know it can be challenging to start a new job, but we're here to help every step of the way and make the process as easy as possible. We have trained over 1200 learners over the past 30 years and know how to train beginners.
This course combines the fundamentals of surveying and setting out training.
What you will be learning
- Mathematics of surveying
- Measuring angles, distances, and heights
- Levelling by automatic, laser and digital levels
- Total stations, including robotics.
- Setting out methods
- Reading and understanding construction drawings
- As-built surveys
- Upload and download data to and from USB and Total stations.
- Understanding data types
- Creating control systems where none exists
- Converting local and global coordinate systems, including rotation of grids
- Traversing for creating local control systems and local site surveys
- Bowditch method of traversing
By the end of this course, you should be able to set out and survey small—to medium-sized construction sites. We provide post-training support, allowing you to contact us by phone, email, or in person with any work-related issues and receive guidance on how to resolve them, making it especially useful for those new to the industry. Support includes;
- Improve your CV
- Upload your CV to the CV library job site
- Inform you of any job vacancies
- Plenty of practice using real-life site drawings
- Telephone and email support after training is complete
- Call us from work with any help or advice about issues at work
Sign up now and start your journey toward success in engineering surveying.
Locations and duration:
London: Classes are held over 12 days in a two week period or 12 Saturdays over three months, with further free training if necessary.
Manchester: We offer this course in Manchester for 10 days, split over two blocks of five consecutive days on the last week of each month.
Benefits
- Apply for a student discount card to use at thousands of shops and online
- Free telephone and email post-training support
- References
Fees: £3095 inc.VAT for training and qualification.
To book this course, please pay by BACS
Finchley College Ltd.
Sort code: 09-01-27
Account no. 44018113
Please write your name as a reference
To attend the 2-week full-time sessions, learners must have paid in full before the start of the sessions.
For more information, please call Reza Nobakht on 020 8143 8970 or email us at
finchleycollege@yahoo.com
Beginners to advanced course
This course is aimed at beginners, junior engineers, or surveyors who need comprehensive training in the use of Total stations, GNSS, RC, and Steel frame construction methods, as well as in reading drawings and an introduction to robotic Total stations.

