Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
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All,
I recently ran into an old friend's dad who owns a surveying firm in my home town. We got to talking and he said he could use my help performing small scale drainage evaluations (one or two a month). I currently work for a large scale environmental firm and this side work would in absolutely no way conflict with my current work (both clients and/or working hours). My full-time job is strictly remediation. I am qualified to do the side work from a previous job. If anything I will be helping a friend and earning a small amount of money on the side. Can anyone see any conflicts in doing this (ethically and/or legally)? I'm most curious about who am I am going to work for; the surveyor or the client? Isn't there rules about working through a third-party company (i.e., the surveying company)?
Thanks in advance.
I recently ran into an old friend's dad who owns a surveying firm in my home town. We got to talking and he said he could use my help performing small scale drainage evaluations (one or two a month). I currently work for a large scale environmental firm and this side work would in absolutely no way conflict with my current work (both clients and/or working hours). My full-time job is strictly remediation. I am qualified to do the side work from a previous job. If anything I will be helping a friend and earning a small amount of money on the side. Can anyone see any conflicts in doing this (ethically and/or legally)? I'm most curious about who am I am going to work for; the surveyor or the client? Isn't there rules about working through a third-party company (i.e., the surveying company)?
Thanks in advance.





RE: Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
RE: Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
The ethics part is what you brought up about conflict, error on the conservative side.
RE: Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
RE: Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
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RE: Engineering Side-Work for a Surveying Firm
Where you might run into the PE laws is if they require a firm to be licensed, they generally won't base that license on a part-time employee- so the surveying company wouldn't be able to get the necessary license to do engineering.