Chartered and Incorporated Engineer are internationally recognised professional titles Chartered Engineering is a mark of quality for top engineers. It also provides a structure for professional development and knowledge exchange between different fields and disciplines of engineers at different stages of their careers.

• Recognition: It distinguishes you as an outstanding engineer and shows pride for your professional achievements.
• Evidence: It is an independent and internationally recognised proof of your skills as an engineer. Continuing Normally, the professional development of engineers is recorded with the employer. When you change employers, this does not go with you. At Chartered Engineering, you register your professional development independently and it stays with you regardless of your movements in the job market.
• Access: Chartered Engineering is an internationally recognised quality brand and opens doors to high-level projects and roles. Also of interest to your employer.
• Community: Chartered Engineering puts engineers at the heart of their entire field of work, including industry, government, engineering firms, and research institutes, as well as universities and colleges. It creates an innovative community around an international quality standard.

• An engineering degree
• KIVI membership
• 5 years of work experience:
  Most engineers need five years of relevant work experience to meet the quality standard offered by Chartered Engineering. Even if you do not yet have 5 years of work experience, it makes sense to start already and let a mentor guide you in the process. Then you can ensure that within those five years you will develop in a focused way into an independent all-round top engineer! You set out the various competences you have acquired during your career in your portfolio, which you draw up in the registration process.

Chartered Engineering has five main competences:

1. Knowledge;
2. Skills;
3. Leadership;
4. communication;
5. and Commitment.

The more detailed competence requirements of a Chartered Engineer differ from those of an Incorporated Engineer.

• Stage 0 (optional): Pre-screening CV
  Still doubting your qualities as an engineer? Send a CV in Dutch or English to chartered@kivi.nl for an initial screening.
• Phase 1: Submit CV
  Convinced of your qualities as an engineer and want to obtain the quality mark for top engineers? Then register on charteredengineer.nl and upload your CV (Dutch or English). After an entry check, you will gain access to the special online environment to compile your portfolio.
• Phase 2: Drawing up portfolio
  The user-friendly online portfolio environment is structured according to the five core competences and corresponding sub-competences and helps you describe your skills and attach supporting evidence. Still not sure what to do? Our mentors are ready to help you, or use our instruction material.
• Phase 3: Quick scan
  Are you well on your way, or (almost) ready? Then submit your portfolio to us to see if you are on the right track. Using a simple checklist, we will show you how your portfolio is doing.
• Stage 4: Review
  Is your portfolio ready? Then submit it for formal review. A Chartered or Incorporated Engineer will review your portfolio and feed back points of improvement for you to work on. The reviewer finally approves your portfolio.
• Stage 5: Professional Review Interview (PRI)
  When your portfolio is approved, you will be invited to your PRI. In this, you will be interviewed for 90 minutes by two assessors (both Chartered or Incorporated Engineers), at least one of whom is from your field. You start with a 10-15-minute presentation and are then interviewed about your presentation and your portfolio. As an engineer, you yourself are at the centre of this interview.
• Stage 6: Chartered or Incorporated Engineer
  If the whole process is successful, you will be included in the KIVI Chartered Engineer Register as a new Chartered or Incorporated Engineer. You will be awarded a certificate in recognition of your achievements and after this you may use the professional and internationally recognised title CEng or IEng.

Every Chartered or Incorporated Engineer must register 100 CPD hours biennially in the online tooling, spread across all 5 main competences. This extends registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer by two years each time. With CPD, you can think of work experience, attending a course, giving a presentation, writing an article, mentoring a student or a role as a volunteer. It is also for personal reflection and helps guide your professional development. For anyone who becomes a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer, CPD often comes naturally.

Our dedicated Chartership team is here to help and advise you at all stages of the process. For example, as a candidate, you can be paired with a mentor who can help you build your portfolio. This is also possible if you are already a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and have questions about your CPD registration. The mentor is himself a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and has completed our mentor training. All your personal and professional information is kept confidential, our mentors and assessors have all signed a confidentiality agreement and our online tooling is certified cybersecure. If your employer requires heavier confidentiality for certain pieces of evidence you want to include in your portfolio, customisation is possible.

For candidates and Chartered and Incorporated Engineers, membership of KIVI is a requirement. In addition, there is an annual contribution of 120 Euro for (candidate) Chartered and Incorporated Engineers. This contribution includes guidance and possibly coaching, use of the online tooling for your portfolio, inclusion in the Chartered Engineer Register and membership of KIVI section Chartered Engineering. Prior to the PRI, a one-off contribution of €375 must be paid. Membership and Chartered Engineering fees are reimbursed by many employers. Ask about it within your company.