construction manager

Additional Skills

• Read blueprint, schemas and drawings

• Hire and supervise activities of subcontractors

• Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers

Work Setting

• Residential construction

• Commercial and/or industrial construction

Specific Skills

• Select trade subcontractors and co-ordinate their activities

• Prepare contracts and negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements

• Prepare and submit construction project budget estimates

• Plan and manage budgets

• Plan and prepare construction schedules and milestones and monitor progress

• Oversee the analysis of data and information

• Establish and implement policies and procedures for quality control

• Direct the purchase of building materials and land acquisitions

• Develop and implement quality control programs

• Prepare reports

• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily operations

Personal Suitability

• Effective interpersonal skills

• Flexibility

• Team player

• Excellent oral communication

• Excellent written communication

• Judgement

• Values and ethics

• Organized