Strengthen delivery with engineering outsourcing from $1,390 a month, all in

Sourcefit’s engineering support rates are $1,390 a month for entry level, $2,195 for mid level and $3,000 for senior engineers and drafters, per full-time employee working from home. Office-based staff add $100 a month. Each rate is all in: salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 management fee. There are no setup, recruitment or exit fees. Where the work suits it, output-based pricing is also available, built on the same transparent framework: we show how the unit price is calculated, so you know exactly what you are paying for.

No. The fee is already inside every rate on this page and on every quote. A $1,390 rate is about $995 of salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 fee. You will never see the fee added to a rate you were quoted.

Legal employment and compliance with an HR team on the ground, recruitment, an i5 computer with dual monitors and headset, a 24/7 IT help desk, a secure managed network, our security certifications and insurance, training and quality, client success management and the Knit workforce platform. For office-based staff it also covers the seat, office network and utilities.

Most engineering support roles are recruited, interviewed and onboarded in two to three weeks. Licensed Philippine engineers with analysis software experience can take longer. You interview and choose the engineers and drafters.

That is your choice. Most clients manage the team directly: the engineers and drafters report to your managers and work inside your processes and tools, with Sourcefit handling employment, HR, equipment, IT and quality support behind them. If you would rather not manage day to day, our Sightline model builds an autonomous team with its own Sourcefit team lead and quality layer that delivers against agreed SLAs, while still reporting directly to you and working to your KPIs, not ours. Sightline is quoted separately.

Yes. Engineers and drafters work in your design, analysis and documentation tools, such as AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, SolidWorks, Inventor, STAAD.Pro, ETABS and Navisworks, under your access rules. You keep ownership of every account, and access is revoked the day someone leaves.

Sourcefit holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701 certification directly, is PCI DSS validated, has a SOC 2 report, signs HIPAA business associate agreements where needed and operates GDPR-aligned data handling. Home-based staff work on company-managed computers over a VPN with traffic routed through Cloudflare.

The team is yours. If you decide to move them to your own entity or take them with you, they go with you. There is no transfer fee, buyout or conversion charge.

No. Your locally licensed engineer remains engineer of record and reviews and seals; the offshore engineer prepares calculations, models and drawings for that review. Because some jurisdictions restrict sealing work done by non-employees, a dedicated employee under documented supervision is the arrangement that satisfies responsible-charge rules.

Drafting, modeling, calculations, design validation, documentation, takeoffs and standards checks move offshore well, and so does senior engineering work: design engineers who own a package, BIM managers, QA reviewers and team leads who run a drafting and design group. Many of our senior engineers are licensed in the Philippines and have years of work on US, Australian and UK projects. Sealing, site visits, inspections and jurisdiction-specific judgment stay with your locally licensed engineers; client-facing design intent decisions stay with whoever owns the client relationship.

A US civil or structural engineer runs $65,000 to $95,000 in base salary, an Australian engineer A$90,000 to A$120,000 loaded. UK salaries for the same roles run somewhat lower in US dollar terms; the gap to the offshore rate holds in all three markets. Sourcefit’s engineering support rates are $1,390 to $3,000 a month, all in. The senior rate reflects a licensed Philippine engineer with analysis software experience, with salary passed through at cost.

Philippine engineers hold four-year engineering degrees and many are licensed through the Professional Regulation Commission board exams, which is a recognized credential in the region. They are not licensed in your jurisdiction and are not positioned as engineer of record. We screen for discipline, software and English, and you can set a technical test.

Familiarity varies and we say so. You specify the code, edition and local amendments in the brief, your engineer owns the design criteria, and the offshore engineer works to them. “Design to ASCE 7”, “design to AS 1170” or “design to the Eurocodes” is not a design criterion; a documented brief is.

Design and analysis seats such as Revit, Civil 3D, SolidWorks, STAAD.Pro and ETABS are normally licensed by you, because they are expensive and tied to your environment, and this is agreed before recruitment; where it is simpler, Sourcefit can procure the seats and pass the cost through at cost. Sourcefit supplies the computer, with a higher-spec workstation for analysis and simulation billed at cost, or the engineer works by remote desktop into your infrastructure.

A defined review chain on your side (who reviews, against what criteria), revision baselines so drawings, calculations and quantities match, and written feedback that is closed out. Sourcefit’s training and quality team samples work and coaches alongside your reviewer.

Yes for steady workloads, and we will say so if it is not. Your engineers will spend real time reviewing offshore work, and it takes about ninety days before a new engineer is fully productive on your standards. Count both and the saving is still large: ongoing capacity at roughly a third of the local cost, for work that would otherwise sit in your backlog. If your volume comes in occasional bursts rather than a steady flow, a project firm may suit you better, and we will tell you that too.

Australian firms get same-day overlap; US and UK firms get overnight turnaround, with work submitted at the end of the day ready in the morning. Turnaround commitments and escalation are agreed before the engineer starts.