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The roles and responsibilities of Project Manager (client side/owner representative) are as follows.
Project Planning and design
1. Set a clear project goal and Objective
2. Establish activities and detail budget
3. Prepare Project schedule
Project Implementation
1. Direct people individually and as project team
2. Keep everyone connected with the project Informed
3. Supervise the progress and work of project contractor
Project Control
1. Review project progress every week and take action to move forward as planned
2. Empower yourself and others on the project team
Project closing and Handover
1. Please train people to take over the Project Function
2. Handover the project as planned
If we look the project manager form the contractor’s side, he/she will ensure project implementation and support the project manager (owner side) exactly in the same way to achieve the project goal. However, as an employee of contractor, he has to look after contractor’s interest in timely completion, submission of report and claim for work completed.
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A Project Manager is a professional in the field of Management. Project managers have the responsibility of the planning, procurement and execution of a project, in any domain of engineering.
They are organized, passionate and goal-oriented who understand what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change.
Project managers are change agents: they make project goals their own and use their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the responsibility of driving business results.
They work well under pressure and are comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments. They can shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.
Project managers cultivate the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members.
They have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. They adapt their approach to the context and constraints of each project, knowing that no "one size" can fit all the variety of projects. And they are always improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion.
Project managers are found in every kind of organization -- as employees, managers, contractors and independent consultants. With experience, they may become program managers (responsible for multiple related projects) or portfolio managers (responsible for selection, prioritization and alignment of projects and programs with an organization's strategy).
And they are in increasing demand worldwide. For decades, as the pace of economic and technological change has quickened, organizations have been directing more and more of their energy into projects rather than routine operations.
Today, senior executives and HR managers recognize project management as a strategic competence that is indispensable to business success. They know that skilled and credentialed practitioners are among their most valuable resources.
the responsibility of Project Manager for Client or owner is
1- to insure that All works done as per scope of work & Standard Specifications & delivered in the Scheduled date
2- Co-ordinate between contractor & the owner Company
3- Help Contractor if Some circumstances out of his hand may be affect the Project
Many milestones in a construction project are established or acknowledged through certification by a third party designated by the project owner. This individual, stipulated in the construction contract, is typically the project architect or engineer. It may be a different owner’s representative. But the operative word is owner’s representative.The denial of certification or a delay in certification can be very costly for a contractor. The contractor, however, has very little influence over or leverage with the certifier. The certifier is the agent of the owner with a duty to protect the owner’s interests. The certifier has few obligations to the contractor, possibly just the obligation to avoid bad faith or fraud.
The nature of this relationship was illustrated in a couple of recent court opinions, one involving a project engineer and the other a construction manager. In both cases it was ruled that the owner’s representative could not be sued by a contractor for delay damages allegedly incurred as a result of project mismanagement. Any duty to the contractor would conflict with the rep’s obligation to protect the interests of the project owner. The contractor can sue the owner for breach of the construction contract. But the owner’s representative, as a disclosed agent operating with the authority of the owner, is virtually untouchable.
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It depends from company to company. When you are an Owner representative, you look into the Owner's interest, whereas, on the other side, it is for whom you are designated
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