In order to make a good career in construction industry as a civil engineer, you need to learn, how things are done, can I do it in more better way without increasing the cost but by improving the quality of the work. You need to understand ways of reducing the reworks, why reworks do occur, how you can bring the change in current working environment and make things better.
You need to show your leadership skills which gets develop once you understand the process flows and way of improving. there is a very thin line difference between peoples who are growing in their career and peoples who got stuck in the situation.
Growing people not only see the things, they observe it.