Hi Everyone
As a rookie in the field of project management in the construction industry, I feel quite lost in finding the route to manage mega size of information and quite afraid of making any mistake in proceeding my role as an assistant to PM, I suppose this may be the matter of sequence control, time control and management art.
Can anyone there show me roughly how you performed or behaved from the time you just stepped in this field?
In practice, books can not help any more even though I am not a bookworm.
P.S: Now I am working in a contruction company, providing civil work, MEP and interior services.
Thank you in advance!
Ming
Dear Ming,
Welcome to the construction field and I hope that you have a long and happy journey.
As an Assistant to the PM, you will have a lot of information to read and understand. Communication is what the PM does most of the time. Hence, your job would be to communicate effectively to the different parties.
From my experience on different sites, you will need at least 3 months to create a productive team. That is, to understand the project, drawings, people, processes, and continuously produce deliverables. So you need to know the people and the processes. Try to get to know the team around you by name. At site, the site engineers and the supervisors are the people who know exactly what is going on at site, you need to know these people pretty well and to understand their needs on a daily basis. They will provide you with the deliverables. If their work proceeds fine, your job will be complete.
As a start, try to spend most of your free time reading the Contract Documents and Drawings, you need to know them very well, and as soon as possible.
And finally don't be shy and try ask as much as you can. The more you ask about things you don't know the better you can complete your job.
With kind regards,
Samer