Construction Project Managers and Related Professionals
What they do most days?
Writes reports for funding bids and planning authorities and acts as expert witness.
Examines accident ‘blackspots’ to improve road safety.
Assesses schemes to manage traffic such as congestion charging and parking controls.
Forecasts the impact on traffic and transport of new developments (e.g. shopping centre).
Records, monitors and reports progress.
Identifies defects in work and proposes corrections.
Regularly inspects and monitors progress and quality of work, ensures legal requirements are met.
Hires and may supervise site staff, establishes temporary site offices, takes delivery of materials.
Plans work schedules for construction projects based on prior discussion with architects, Chartered architectural technologists, surveyors etc..
Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.
Briefs project team, contractors and suppliers.
Draws up budgets and timescales for new construction projects based on clients’ requirements.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.