Chief Responsibilities of a Construction Manager

Writing is an essential activity in many jobs and services all over the world including the construction management field. Since grade school teachers have stressed to us the importance of writing. Most teachers will stress just how important it is to know how to write because, we will be writing for our future professions. In relation, some professions call for much more writing than other jobs and some jobs involve very little writing. Construction managers are in the category of those who have less to write than people on other jobs. Some writings that construction managers may take part in are: planning, emails, and bids. Although construction managers do not do a lot of writing, it is a very important part of their work and could make or break their business. It is important to make sure all these writings are done to ensure good business and efficient work ethic. Without most of the writing a construction manager does, it would be quite impossible to finish a job. Writing is not all that the job entails though.

A construction manager’s chief responsibility is to make sure the customer’s building or house is being built properly. Having such a responsibility means that the construction manager will most likely be examining the build site and overseeing what is going on, as well as doing manual labor here and there. Not only does the construction manager have to do these jobs but also he or she has a little bit of writing to do before hand. Construction managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from development to completion. In the construction field “planning is a fundamental and challenging activity in the management and execution of projects”. (Wilson) Planning a construction ...

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...n to be able to have better writing skills in your profession, not only construction management. Writing is a very important part of just about every field including construction management. Someone may see a scatter of construction managers just walking around job sites, but they do more than just that; they do their fair share of writing as well, whether it may be writing an email or a letter to a sub-contractor or planning out a job. The writing in this field may not be as much as other fields, but it is still equally as important.

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