What Does a Public Works Director Do?

Project Director (Project Director) in addition to the FIDIC provisions stipulated that engineers have the status of intermediaries, designers, construction supervisors, quasi arbitrators and owners' agents, also has a special status in engineering project management.

Project Director

The project director is the highest position set by the supervision unit on the project after the implementation of the construction project. It is also a market economy. The ownership of the construction project is relatively separated from the management right.

The so-called basic responsibilities are the basic work content or scope that is commensurate with its status. With the development of project management, the content of modern project management has developed into a "three control, two management, one coordination" that runs through the entire process of a construction project. Therefore, the project director should play an important role as a planner, organizer, coordinator, and supervisor. In addition to performing the general duties stipulated in the FIDIC provisions, he must also perform the following responsibilities.

The project director should achieve the best combination of the "three control" goals. The focus of supervision work is on the control of the quality, cost, and construction period of the project. The director's work also focuses on "three controls." However, quality, cost, and construction period are a contradictory and unified system. The basic responsibility of the project director is to make the entire system optimal through effective control of the three aspects. First, we must adhere to the "hundred-year plan, quality first". Especially for some large-scale and permanent projects, such as the Three Gorges Project, the project director must focus on quality, grasp the quality control points, and do the work before, during and after the event. Second, we must do a good job in cost control. With the development of project management, modern project management is no longer the kind of management that only focuses on the construction class, and its scope has been expanded to the entire process of the project. In addition, the design stage has an impact on the cost of more than 75%, so the project director must do a good job of cost control in the investment stage, at the same time change the concept and attach importance to the claim. Third, do a good job of controlling the construction period. There are many factors that affect the construction period, including artificial, technical, financial, and environmental factors. Therefore, the project director must analyze various factors, take measures, and dynamically control to ensure the construction period.

The project director should do a good job of second management. The so-called "two management" refers to information management and contract management. First, information is the basis for the project director's control and the basis for the project director's decision. The project director should do a good job of information management from the aspects of information collection, sorting, processing, and storage. Especially with the popularization of computers, the informationization trend of project management has become more and more obvious. Project directors should make full use of this modern tool to complete information management. Second, once a construction contract is signed, it has legal effect. As the director, he must strictly fulfill the obligations stipulated in the supervision contract. In addition, help the owner to draft the terms of the engineering contract, and participate in the negotiation and signing of the contract, and act as the owner to strictly supervise the issuance of contracts by contractors, suppliers, etc., and handle claims and counterclaims.

The project director should coordinate well. The project director is entrusted by the owner to supervise the contractor on behalf of the supervision unit. These three are equal subjects in law, promote each other in work, and restrict each other in management. Therefore, the project director must coordinate the relationship among the three parties, follow the principles of fairness, fairness, science, and integrity from beginning to end, and always establish a transposition. ^[1]