Managing the Project: The Supervisors Role Session 8: Working with Project Partners

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Managing the Project The Supervisors
RoleSession 8 Working with Project Partners
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Session 8 Topics

• Corporate culture
• Project delivery system
• Sales approach
• Project location
• Organizational structure
• Project complexity

• Repeat sales
• Repeat partnerships
• On-time completion
• Future sub relations
• Future inspector relations
• Job security

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SESSION 2 TOPICS
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Working with Project Partners

• Upstream
• Corporate culture
• Project delivery system
• Sales approach
• Project location
• Organizational structure
• Project complexity

• Downstream
• Repeat sales
• Repeat partnerships
• On-time completion
• Future sub relations
• Future inspector relations
• Job security

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Working with Owners(Supervisor as the
Salesperson)

• Effect of delivery system
• Professionalism
• Can do attitude
• Customer is almost always right
• Give the owner what they want, unless
• The owner needs to be coached
• Respect the owners chain of command
• Problem-solving ability (managing changes)

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Working with Subcontractors in the Field

• Hard bid vs. negotiated subs
• Resolve/firmness
• Resolution of performance issues
• Taking excuses away
• Coordinated planning
• Cleanup
• Monitoring sub progress
• Assessing sub completion percentage

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Working with Designers

• Project delivery system effect
• Constructability
• Safety
• Change management
• Punch list management
• Quality and inspections

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Working with Inspectors/Governments

• Entities with limited or no stake in project may
  have power to bring project to a halt
• Coordinating inspection schedules
• Allowing lead time for inspections prior to Cert.
  of Occup./Cert. of Comp. and move-in
• Involving inspectors in change as necessary
• Acknowledging limited technical knowledge of some
  code officials

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Unions

• Jurisdictional disputes
• Political power
• Dual gates
• Work rules

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Working with Internal Stakeholders (accounting,
PM, corporate, etc.)

• Timely response to requests for information
• Respect for other parts of organization
• Setting appropriate boundaries
• Respect of higher decision-making authority
• Profit center vs. cost center

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Project Partners

• Can be helpful to think of an integrated
  construction team

Owners
Contractor
The Project
Unions
Subcontractors
Designers
Government agencies