Clive Morse CEng FIMechE MIAgrE

Custom Diesel Projects Manager, Hartridge

My work as an Institution Industry Liaison Officer began while mentoring one of our young engineers. I went on to take the Institution’s mentors course, and now anyone considering professional recognition or registration comes to me.
I helped set up a company based registration scheme for engineers, and we all pulled together to ensure an ethos of strong professional engineering recognition at our firm.I’m there to listen and help where needed, but I’m not a school teacher who’s going to chase people for their homework! I can tell young engineers the benefits of professional registration, but mostly the desire is already there.

Being an ILO provides opportunities to talk to engineers and technicians across departments that I do not normally interact with as part of “the day job”. This gives me a wider appreciation of the business, and what is actually happening, what people are feeling, etc.

In terms of support, the business has guidelines about the amount of time I put into this role. For development and training with specific job benefits, members of staff can study and train in company time; if there is no specific benefit to the business then it is in the employee’s time, although typically it is about 50/50. If there are particular development tasks from which the company can benefit, then I try to include this. As a specific example, a developing engineer had a learning objective to expand and understand wider management issues, including risk management. This is outside of his day-to-day work, however we have worked through the processes I normally follow, and in this case the developing engineer has created a risk assessment that is being used in a live project.

Engineers must be professional and self-motivated, and a large part of professional development comes down to personal integrity, so I apply that mind-set to registration.It’s always tricky to find time to volunteer and work the day job, but part of becoming a Chartered Engineer is engaging with the community and I want to keep that going.

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