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re: Construction Managers
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:08 am to GeauxLSU25
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:08 am to GeauxLSU25
Get up early
Manage subs for an hour or two
Stay on the phone
Leave the job site at 3
Keep lies to owner about schedule and change orders straight
Rinse and repeat
Manage subs for an hour or two
Stay on the phone
Leave the job site at 3
Keep lies to owner about schedule and change orders straight
Rinse and repeat
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:33 am to PearlJam
What most mentioned.. you're babysitting adults.
Then , taking there bs excuses , translating them to reasonable ones, and selling them to the owner.
Same shite , different toilet .
Then , taking there bs excuses , translating them to reasonable ones, and selling them to the owner.
Same shite , different toilet .
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:38 am to BearCrocs
I have a couple of buddies that are construction managers with a focus on data center builds. They make a damned nice living.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:39 am to GeauxLSU25
Meetings, babysitting, listening to bitching, walk around and check my projects, sort priorities and filter down to my contractors. I probably spend 80% in my office fricking off when we're slow, and probably 50% when we're busy.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:05 am to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:until Iran nukes Saudi
Market is already saturated and oil isn't going to be $100/barrel
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:13 am to The Ostrich
quote:
Managing Construction
I wish I actually managed Construction!
On the commercial side the lack of reliable subcontractors and shitty work force you spend more time baby sitting and doing every one else job. The commercial Construction industry has gone down a very steep hill in the 20+ years I have been in the industry and getting exponentially worse!
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:14 am to The Ostrich
quote:
Managing Construction
and
quote:
playing in golf tournaments.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:26 am to GeauxLSU25
Glorified babysitter, honestly
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:27 am to finfeathersport
quote:
I wish I actually managed Construction!
On the commercial side the lack of reliable subcontractors and shitty work force you spend more time baby sitting and doing every one else job. The commercial Construction industry has gone down a very steep hill in the 20+ years I have been in the industry and getting exponentially worse!
There are as many shitty general contractors with shitty and unqualified construction managers, project manager and superintendents as there are sub contractors. And there are a lot of shitty subs.
You are correct-it has gone downhill fast. I grew up in commercial and industrial construction. I only do industrial as a direct vendor or commercial out of state if I act as the GC. I haven't done commercial in LA for a long time and won't again specifically for that reason.
Well that and most have a problem writing checks.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 9:23 am to GeauxLSU25
CM is a degree that you can pretty much do anything you want in construction. Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Heavy Civil, Piping, Structural Steel. etc. etc. You can either work in project management of some sort or estimating. What was said earlier about being experienced to be a manager is correct. Working in the field, you'll start out scheduling, writing daily reports/RFI's, timesheets/payroll, or purchasing and spending as much time as possible doing walk-down's and trying to learn the field you are in. If you're in estimating you'll be sending out RFQ packages, preliminary schedules, and doing takeoffs. The downside is you're a desk jockey 95% of the time with the occasional site visit or out of office meeting. The positive for that is you work normal hours, out of the heat/cold all day, and usually work from a main office instead of traveling from job to job. I've worked both field project management and estimating now in my 12+ years and prefer estimating, you have to be a good people person to be a PM. It really is a babysitting job most of the time whether it be your own people, subs, or clients. Eventually you get tired of working with some of those people and the bullshite they bring to you on a daily basis at 6am after you drove and hour to get to the jobsite. With estimating you get a package on your desk, usually bid it within a month or so, get instant results of your work win or lose, then move onto the next one. Depending on what size company you're with, you may have to help get the project going with contract buyouts, submittals, and purchasing. Smaller company PM's usually wear all the hats, estimate & manage. Being a traveling PM has benefits in pay, but not very conducive to family life.
Main thing is CM is knowledge based, knowledge you learn outside of school. If you've worked in the field at all, which is preferable, use your knowledge to expand in that field. You could always change fields, but you'll have to learn a whole new type of construction. I.E. going from commercial interior work to heavy civil/structural.
Main thing is CM is knowledge based, knowledge you learn outside of school. If you've worked in the field at all, which is preferable, use your knowledge to expand in that field. You could always change fields, but you'll have to learn a whole new type of construction. I.E. going from commercial interior work to heavy civil/structural.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 9:26 am
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