Abstract
This study revealed the current situation and problems for engineers of local government through hearing survey and questionnaire, and discussed the desired role and duty for them and the required counter-measures for solving the problems. First, we summarized the many comments for their job environments and problems of local government and divided them into 6 categories such as “job”, “skill and technology”, “cultivation”, “system”, “position” and “consciousness” for the hearing survey. Second, we confirmed about the problems by questionnaire for many local government engineers. Third, we considered the six categories from the structured analysis of construction management drawing and clarified the desired role and duty for engineers of local government. Finally, we proposed the necessity of ethics for engineers, management of technology, technology evaluation in order to solve the their current problems.