Education programmes of job
Nature of work
Responsibilities typically involve the following major areas:Coordinating Design & Construction activities:
- Ensure that design packages comply withclient requirements, health & safety regulations, and engineering codes and standards.
- Ensure that construction works are constructed in accordance with original drawings and schedules.
- Ensure the efficient use of resources.
- Ensure that all change orders and schedule delaysare documented, project schedules are updated, and the as-built plans/drawings are prepared.
- Prepare final inspection and final closeout report accordingly.
Communication and work coordination:
- Meetteam members and senior foreman daily to review work progress.
- Liaise with project stakeholdersto resolve technical difficulties, and schedule delays.
- Ensure that updatedschedulesarecommunicated to project stakeholders.
- Prepare regular reports for senior management to report on: work progress, workplace injuries, and cost overruns.
Health & Safety checks:
- Produce risk assessments and safe work method statements (SWMS).
- Ensure company health & safety systems are implemented and complied with.
- Produce precise information and instructions to project personnel.
- Stop and record unsafe operations.
Environment of work
- Normal working hours: Sunday to Thursday, between 9 am and 5 pm.
- Construction project managers might need to work extended hours on occasions when required.
- Construction project managers work either from a main office, or a field office at the construction site, where they monitor work progress and make daily decisions about construction activities.
- Construction project managers must be sufficiently mobile and flexible to travel up to a few days a month to attend meetings with stakeholders.
- Depending on the nature and scale of the project, project managers may delegate some of their responsibilities to their assistant manager or other project team members while keeping the directing role.
Professional life
- Construction project managers typically work for construction consultancy firms, however,clients and main contractors may employ their own project managers.
- Project managers report a senior project manager who might be managing different projects simultaneously on a more strategic level.
- Project manager supervises the project team that may include planners, site engineers, quantity surveyors, andengineering foremen.
- A project manager with extended experience and/or higher education may become a senior project manager
Sectors of careers
- Project managersoversee all types of construction projects. They work for construction companies or consultancy firms operating in different sectors of the construction industry, such as:
- Infrastructure construction: highways, railways, bridges, airports, dams and canals, oil/gas pipelines and transmission lines, large water supply and sewage disposal networks, harbors, and nuclear and thermal power plants.
- Residential housing construction: new construction developments, renovations, and major repairs on existing facilities.
- Commercial building construction: schools and universities, hospitals, recreational facilities and sports stadiums, retail chain stores and large shopping centers, warehouses, office skyscrapers, and hotels.
- Industrial construction: manufacturing, processing and industrial plants like oil refineries, steel mills, chemical processing plants and consumer-goods factories.
Getting the job
Candidates should ideally have:- BSc in Civil Engineering or Architecture from a recognized University, preferable with a higher degree in Construction Management.
- Project Management Certification (PMP or PSP) is an advantage.
- Sound knowledge of the design process and construction methodologies.
- Sound knowledge in project networking, i.e. planning, monitoring, and controlling construction activities within time, budget and stakeholders requirements.
- Sound knowledge of health & safety regulations, and a high regard for the consequences of their decisions on the safety of workers onsite.
- Considerable and relevant working experience from similar construction projects.
- Advanced knowledge in using MS office products (Excel, Words, PowerPoint… etc.), and networking software e.g. MS Project or Primavera P6.
Skills
- A natural forward person who critically assesses own and team performance.
- Excellent leadership skills: honesty, delegation skills, motivating others, ability to inspire others, expressing commitment,positive attitude and creativity.
- Ability to keep the critical balance between strategic objectives of the firm and project objectives, and deal with objective’s contradictions.
- Ability to inspire team members and encourage them to adhere to and followfirmprocedures and guidelines.
- Ability to propose solutions to technical and engineering problems.
- Ability to communicate ideas and see things from the other person's point of view.Excellent face-to-face and telephone communication skills.