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Responsibilities of Construction Project Manager
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| Responsibilities of Construction Project Manager |
For what concerns the construction’s domain it is a very well known fact that that one of the most important key actors in the process is the Project Manager. The duties and responsibilities of a PM are wide and complex and he has to improve his skills continuously from one project to another. An experienced and well-educated professional, the construction project manager is usually a very organized person, with abilities and training of a leader, well-equipped to deal with all kind of issues, skilled and intelligent.
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Responsibilities of Construction Project Manager
100: Plan the Work
Even from the tender procedure the Project Manager has to be involved in the project’s process in order to analyze (generally) the solutions, the budgets, the deadlines, the payment conditions etc. Before the first nail is hammered, the PM must plan the work that his or her crew will actually do for the whole project.
99: Hire, Fire, Supervise
From his office where he is planning the development of his project or on the construction site, the PM is the boss. The construction project manager is not only responsible for planning the work and making sure it gets done, but also supervising the hard hats who do it.
98: Get Materials & Equipment…at the proper time
"They want you to cook the dinner; at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries," legendary NFL coach Bill Parcells once famously said of his desire to be involved in choosing the players for his teams. For construction project managers, the sentiment also holds true when it comes to selecting the materials and equipment used to complete the job.
97: NEGOTIATE...everything
Among other important qualifications that a PM has to have, an important activity that he must pursue is to negotiate all the offers and the contracts on his project. Even if we are talking about buying screws, gaskets or silicone and arriving to the important material’s orders like steel/concrete structure, glass, aluminium, thermo-hydroinsulation etc.
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