I'm planning to move to USA am working as a highway design engineer at the moment are there jobs available ?

Question

there in the relevant field?? i have a bachelors degree in civil engineering and am doing my masters right now. So is there any demand for highway design engineers there??

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Answer 1

Can't help on Highway engineering - try the web sites of the big and medium employers - see if you can get work with them.  3 years ago they seemed to be recruiting people  from overseas who would work for a fair bit less than  a US graduate in return for the visa.  May have changed with the shortage of capital.

As Fritya said, you need the Visa.  If you go on an H-1/L-1 visa you have to stay with your sponsor company, and if they make you redundant, your visa dies too and the INS may ask you to leave.  

Anecdotally:

I'd been with a US company for several years outside the US, and went to work on an L-1.  That took 2 years to convert to a green card, right before they laid me off.   I then converted from mech to civil enineering, as that was the only work available in the area

You need state (not federal) recognition as a PE to work in many civil fields as more than a trainee.

Check out web sites on the "washington agreement" to see if your degree is recognised as equivalent to a US degree.  I had an old fashioned 3 year BSc, plus a PhD, and had been a UK chartered engineer for 15 years,but as far as the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was concerned, I was unqualified in any form of engineering and had to sit the FE exam before I could start the 4 years training for PE.  

It was not a hard exam, but until I got it the pay was poor ($18/hour, but with O/T most weeks).  That said, the people of central PA were friendly, helpful, hospitable, and the work was fun.  A dollar there buys about the same as a pound here.

The USA is truly a great country if you work hard, follow the (local) rules and keep your health.  It is not so great if you get sick without health insurance, or if you don't conform to local norms.

Hope that helps - look before you leap.

Answer 2

it's the visa that is the problem and there are opportunities , lots of concrete slab construction  brush up on it .

Answer 3

Dont forget they drive on the RIGHT !

Answer 4

With all the talk about the minneapolis bridge collapse and all this demand for fixing up bridges, I bet there is jobs.