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.
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17 years 3 monthsDear Ming, Welcome to the
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