Project Management Team - Roles

The direct control and responsibilities relative to the project would be as follows:-

Managing Director

Responsible for the company's performance in ensuring progress and completion on time and within budget to the client's entire satisfaction.

Project Director

Responsible to the managing director and chairman, supervising site and project engineers. Liaises with all individuals involved with the project and co-ordinates all departments to facilitate the smooth running of the project, including:

• Professional team
• Contract team
• Project engineer
• Site foreman
• Procurement manager
• Personnel manager
• Company safety officer
• Company plant manager

in direct control of the project performance in ensuring progress of works, within the budgets provided by the company's tender, to the clients satisfaction and within the time constraints of the overall project programme.

Main duties are formulating a detailed programme, installation/builders work drawings from tender and main contractors master programme. On-going responsibility throughout the contract for programme updates and production control monitoring and reports.

The preparation of a suitable programme co-ordinated with the major sub-contractors and main contractors is fundamental in planning to meet the objectives set out in the overall strategy document included within our proposal.

Programmes are prepared in conjunction with site teams and in liaison with the major sub-contractor and suppliers.

From these, progress schedules will be prepared for:-

• Construction programmes
• Pre-construction programmes
• Material control chart
• Commissioning programme

The programmes form an integral part of the monitoring and control of the works.

For pre-construction programmes the following activities are considered:-

• Information release
• Finalisation of manufacturers information
• Material control charts
• Main ordering of sub-contractors and capital plant
• Production of drawings
• Approval by the professional team
• Manufacturing period off site
• Works test inspection prior to delivery to site

Project Engineer

Reports to the Project Director and is responsible for the detailed engineering procurement and administration matters.

Also responsible for all site based line management and operatives, day to day planning and site organisation, along with co-ordination and detailed liaison with the main contractor and other trades and supervises the following:-

• Site Foreman
• Section Foreman

He consults with:-

• Professional Team
• Contract Team
• Purchasing Department
• Personnel Department
• Company Safety Officers
• Plant Department.

Responsible for executing the engineering aspects of the contract to the client's requirements within the budgets provided by the company's tender. This encompasses direct control and supervision of the staff listed in order to ensure productivity is maximised to meet with completion dates and to maintain quality standards.

Detailed responsibilities include:-

• Direct site management of the electrical installation including specialist sub-contractors. Responsible for the planning of the installation schedule and ensuring the schedule dates are met in line with client requirements.
• Labour efficiency ensuring that direct labour efficiency is correctly monitored in order to control the cost and ensure that the necessary action is taken to minimise non-productive labour time.
• Control of quality standards, ensuring that correct inspection procedures are adopted along with inspection of the finished installation in conjunction with Clients' representatives and ensuring the workforce is instructed on quality standards required.
• Establishing and maintaining safe working procedures with strict observance of the company's safety training policy by all the workforce; and compliance by subordinates of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in respect of protective clothing and equipment for safe working and Construction, Design and Management Regulations 1996.

Planning Engineer

The Planning Engineer will be responsible for the planning and control of the installation, utilising a completely computerised system showing bar charts and network analysis.

The Company also employs programme evaluation and review techniques, a probability distribution method, taking into account optimistic, pessimistic and expected duration for complex projects.

Labour efficiency is also monitored using our internal production control reporting procedures and associate production management reports to ensure that productivity is being correctly monitored.

These computerised systems together with the operation research techniques ensure effective quality control.

Buyer

Joint project team/branch responsibility to ensure forward ordering of all materials and equipment to phase deliveries in accordance with the detailed programme requirements. Working closely with the contracts manager to ensure that specialist and sub-contractor orders are placed with the contract requirements and special attention to deliveries where site conditions are restricted.

Site Foreman

Responsible to the Project Manager regarding electrical and/or mechanical aspects of the contract and supervises the Section Foreman, and all grades of skilled craftsmen.

Consults with:-

• Project Team
• Planning Engineer
• Company Plant Manager

Main duties are to supervise the installation of labour force, maintaining discipline, ensuring all works carried out safely in accordance with the method statements, day to day inspections for quality assurance of the installation and client liaison on site.

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