Certified Engineer (PI)

Only a person entered in the register of certified engineers at the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers (IZS) may use the professional title of certified engineer in any form of official communication.

Professional tasks of a certified engineer include:

• construction and technical design of structures,
• participation in the elaboration of spatial planning documents in so far as they relate to their professional field, and
• carrying out construction, crafts and installation works, whereby:
  • the professional tasks of a certified engineer in construction refer to:
    • the professional field of construction, in particular
    • elaboration of plans for building, geotechnical, transport and similar structures of buildings and other construction works and for other spatial planning operations, and their execution,
    • the elaboration of construction plans for civil engineering works,
    • the elaboration of static and seismic analyses, seismic hazard studies and geological geomechanical analyses of the underlying soil, and the testing of building materials;
  • Professional tasks of a certified engineer in electrical engineering refer to: 
    • the professional field of electrical engineering, in particular to 
    • to systems, plants, equipment, machines and installations of production, transmission, distribution, transformation and accumulation of electricity, the use of electricity, protection against lightning and other overvoltage, protection against the negative effects of electricity, lighting, management, regulation, automation, measurement, control, signalling and supervision, protection against explosion and fire, technical security, media technologies, telecommunications and information technologies;
  • professional tasks of a certified engineer in mechanical engineering refer to:
    • the professional field of mechanical engineering, in particular to energy sector and installations in buildings and civil engineering works, technological equipment and plants, hydro-, thermo- and nuclear-energy plants, and transmission and distribution pipelines;
  • professional tasks of a certified engineer in the field of technology refer to:
    • the professional field of technology, in particular to chemistry and chemical technology, food, pharmaceutical, wood and textile technologies, metallurgy, sanitary engineering, zootechnics, biotechnology, technical product technology, and to forestry, and safety and health at work;
  • professional tasks of a certified fire engineer refer to:
    • the planning of fire safety measures
  • professional tasks of a certified engineer in geotechnology and mining refer to:
    • the professional field of geotechnology and mining, in particular to geotechnical structures, geotechnology, excavations and substructures for underground installations.

Professional tasks of a certified land surveying engineer refer to the carrying out of land surveying activities, which include:

• carrying out land surveying tasks in accordance with the regulations governing the recording of real estate, land surveying measurements and the tasks in accordance with the regulations on the national land surveying reference system,
• land surveying measurements related to designing, construction and use of structures,
• stakeout of structures,
• the elaboration of land surveying plans, control observations and elaboration of deformation analyses,
• data transformation between different national coordinate systems, and
• mapping, processing, analysis and interpretation of spatial data.

Professional tasks of a certified engineer in transport engineering refer to transport, in particular to:

• sizing horizontal elements of traffic areas,
• designing and elaboration of technology plans in transport,
• producing traffic studies and traffic models and mobility plans,
• planning of traffic signalling, transport networks based on traffic models and forecasts, roadblocks, public passenger transport networks and conceptual designs of transfer points (stops), and the designing of pedestrian areas and quiet traffic,
• planning and implementing measures to increase traffic safety,
• planning transport infrastructure,
• planning, development and implementation of transport technologies and intelligent transportation systems.

Professional tasks of a certified engineer also include:

• managing projects,
• supervising the construction of all types of structures,
• works management,
• elaboration of expert opinions, documents and studies in the professional field for which they are certified,
• consulting services to the contracting authority and the representation of the contracting authority,
• investment management.

Certified engineers are persons who meet the prescribed requirements and are entered in the register of certified engineers at the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers (IZS) and undergoes continuing vocational training. By entering the register, they become members of the professional chamber.

In providing services, the certified engineer is identified by a standard stamp bearing an identification number.