Controls manager

Yasser,

Project Controls consistes of the following.

1) Planning and Scheduling

2) Cost Control

3) Estimation

The role of project control manager is to over see these functions of the project and assist the Project manager in particular and the project management team in general for issues relation to project control.

Some of the major activities which are part of project control is.

1. Setting up Cost/Schedule baseline.

2. Progress monitroring and reporting.

3. Preparation/Approval of progress invoices.

4. Provide input for variation order/additional jobs/ claims.

5. Forecasting / Variance analysis.



Regards,


Ashraf

Ashraf,

Thanks for your input. But do you think that the Engineering Dept., document control Dept., and contract administration Dept. are also considered under the responsibilities of the controls manager?

Regards,

Yasser

Yasser,

For an EPC project and Major Construction projects Engineering and Contract administration are seperate departments and document control is part of engineering dept.

However for smaller construction projects say upto 10 million US$ companies tend towards lower overheads and have few staff in Engineering and Contract administration hence project control manager is overburdened by this additional job.

Experience shows that this type of arrangement lacks foresight as when the project is on full swing the project control manager is too bogged down by engineering / contractual issues that the planning & scheduling portion is grossly effected.

Also as so many departments under Project control manager makes the project with two power centres the other being the project manager.

Regards,

Ashraf