Drawing and Model Support
Prepare drafting updates from approved instructions and maintain revision records. The responsible engineer reviews technical decisions and issued documents.
Engineering consultancies, contractors and construction businesses
Offshore Staffing for Engineering & Construction
Give drawings, tenders and project records the coordination they need, with technical approval kept clear.
Covela recruits, employs and supports your Philippine-based team. You direct their daily work.
Our Customers
Australian industry context
1.313m
People Employed in Construction
Employment at June 2025 · Australia
Define the project stage, drawing volume and review deadlines. Construction activity and engineering consultancy work need different role briefs.
ANZSIC Division E; excludes engineering consultancies classified elsewhere. Source: ABS Australian Industry, 2024–25. Checked 15 October 2026.
Australian industry context does not establish offshore hiring demand, candidate availability or Covela results.
Work with a clear owner
What work can your offshore team handle?
Start with recurring responsibilities and the decisions your team needs to review. These examples help you define the brief.
Estimating and Tender Support
Compile quantities, supplier inputs and submission documents against your templates. Your estimator or commercial lead reviews assumptions and approves the tender.
Project Documentation
Maintain registers, track requests for information and organise progress reports. Escalate overdue inputs to the project manager before submission deadlines.
Roles for Engineering & Construction
Shape each role around your workload, systems and supervision. Explore a role or function, then tell us what you need covered.
CAD Drafter
Prepare drawing updates within your review process.
Explore the roleBIM Coordinator
Coordinate model information and revision records.
Explore the roleEstimating Assistant
Compile quantities and supplier information.
Explore operations rolesDocument Controller
Keep project records current and traceable.
Explore the roleExample responsibilities for discussion, not fixed staffing packages or advertised vacancies.
Experience from Adaca
Software for a Construction Supply Chain
Adaca rebuilt the platform for Plant Hire Solutions to move beyond its legacy system.
This is adjacent construction supply-chain experience. Technical design certification and site responsibilities remain with your qualified professionals.
Read Adaca’s Plant Hire Solutions case study ↗Working together
Clear Access. Clear Approvals.
Your qualified professionals retain design certification, technical sign-off, site safety and contractual commitments. Specify supervision and any qualifications required for the role.
Your Systems and Review Points
Name the drafting or modelling tools, common data environment and estimating system. Provide sample deliverables, naming conventions and the review steps required before issue.
ISO 27001-Certified Operations
Covela’s staffing service is covered by ISO 27001 certification. Agree the information each role needs, the access you authorise and the review and escalation requirements before onboarding.
Discuss your information requirements ↗Your Business Leads
You set priorities, manage daily work and approve access and outputs.
Covela Supports
We handle recruitment, employment, payroll and HR. Leave, overtime requests and performance reviews come through our platform for your approval.
From Your Brief to Your Team
Our platform keeps the brief, candidate coordination and ongoing people administration together, with human support across Australia and the Philippines.
Define the Work
Set responsibilities, systems, experience and the manager who will guide the person.
Meet Candidates
We assess your brief and provide candidate profiles within 48 hours. Interviews and candidate refinement shape the hiring decision.
Start and Settle In
Agree a start date around notice periods, prepare access and introduce the person to your team’s review process.
Questions About Your Engineering & Construction Team
Scope the role before recruitment, so everyone knows what the person will own and when to ask for guidance.
Can a drafter use our standards and templates?
Include sample drawings, model conventions and revision rules in the brief. Assess candidates against the actual work and build a review step into the first assignments.
Who signs off estimates and engineering work?
Your authorised technical and commercial leads do. Define which preparation tasks can be delegated and which decisions require qualified review before work starts.
Who manages the person’s daily work?
Your business sets priorities, gives instructions and reviews the work. Covela recruits and employs your people, handles payroll and HR, and coordinates ongoing people support.
How long does recruitment take?
We assess your brief and provide candidate profiles within 48 hours. Hiring generally takes around two weeks, assuming two to three interview rounds and candidate refinement. The person may then start immediately or up to four weeks later, depending on their notice period.
Build Your Engineering & Construction Team
Tell us what needs doing, which systems you use and who will direct the work. We’ll help you shape the role.