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Engineering Industry Partners

Engineering Industry Partners
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Industry Partners

SOE is a professional membership organisation that represents more than 18,000 individuals and companies in the engineering industry.
It supports and encourages best practice and health and safety initiatives, and is committed to the ongoing growth and personal development of its members, through specialist knowledge-sharing and professional learning.

SOE represents the Professional Sectors IRTE, IPlantE and BES (see Represented Sectors). Whilst SOE has a collective and central role for its members, each of the Professional Sectors remains dedicated to developing the skills of its members in their specialist areas of activity.

Company membership

SOE has established the Industry Partners Scheme to develop a mutually beneficial relationship between companies and the Society.

A bespoke relationship

SOE’s relationship with its Industry Partners, and between the Partners themselves, is individual, flexible and dynamic depending on what each party seeks to contribute or gain. SOE is keen to enter into dialogue with its Partners to help them get the most out of their membership.

Who should join?

SOE welcomes applications for membership from companies, large or small, involved in road transport or plant engineering, engineer surveying or those working within the sphere of operations engineering.

The Society’s aims, which include education and training, professional standards and safety and best practice, benefit not just individual members and affiliated companies but the engineering industry as a whole.

Membership of the Industry Partners Scheme is formal recognition of your company's commitment to best practice.

Industry Partners case studies

Benefits of becoming an Industry Partner:

  • Enhanced corporate profile, recognition and quality credentials by association with SOE and its Professional Sectors
  • New business opportunities via access to SOE members – many of whom are key decision makers in the road transport, engineer surveying/insurance and plant industries
  • Preferential membership rates for your staff
  • Priority booking and reduced rates at SOE seminars, events and conferences
  • Accreditation or approval of your company training schemes
  • Greater media exposure via free advertising space in Operations Engineer newsletter, currently sent to 18,000 practitioners in the industry
  • Complimentary subscription to leading industry magazines: Transport Engineer and Plant Engineer and the SOE newsletter Operations Engineer
  • Discounted advertising rates in Transport Engineer and The Plant Engineer and other SOE publications
  • Authorisation to use the Society or Professional Sector logo in your printed materials
  • A competitive edge for your business through SOE’s many training schemes and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Scheme
  • The opportunity to be involved in, and learn from, technical working groups
  • Access to the SOE Register of Consultants and Expert Witnesses
  • Free Conference Suite in Westminster, central London for up to 6 half days a year

It is the Society’s aim:

“To be recognised world-wide by all of our stakeholders as being the most relevant and professional organisation; to continually deliver best practice amongst engineering individuals and their related companies.”

Professional standards

Any professional body that values its role must expect professional standards of its members.

The trust placed in plant and transport engineering of all kinds to function safely, reliably and effectively depends entirely on the integrity and skill of its practitioners.

This is the fundamental basis on which SOE awards membership. Accordingly members of SOE do not hesitate to subscribe to a rigorous Code of Conduct; their commitment to this is a clear sign to contractors and the public alike that they can be relied upon.

For more information about membership, read:
» Application forms