Within a construction agency, a construction consultant is responsible for managing all the sites under his responsibility. The interlocutor of the project manager supervises the economic and financial monitoring of the sites, ensures the interface between the customers, the suppliers, and the management of the agency.
Main activities and role of construction consultant..
Monitoring of construction operations
Set the supervisors' objectives to ensure the customer delivery according to the rules (respect for costs, quality, and deadlines). Ensure the availability of resources: budget preparation, team allocation, equipment investments, etc. Monitor the work and intervene in support of the work supervisors (execution management and resolution of dysfunctions such as breakdowns, contractual disputes, etc.). Monitor site performance indicators: budget control, resource management, and meeting deadlines.
Ensure the application of contractual and regulatory standards, particularly in quality, safety, hygiene, and impact on the environment.
Ensure the acceptance of the works after the inspection phase by the supervisors of the work.
Management
Monitor activity for all the projects under its responsibility: current business volume, monitoring of customer and supplier invoicing, etc. Participate in investment choices in conjunction with the branch manager and support services (price studies, equipment, purchases): selection of suppliers or service providers, purchases of large equipment or materials, etc. Perform reporting and ensure the achievement of turnover objectives.
Supervise teams and participate in human resources development in their field of activity.
Commercial management and customer relationship monitoring
- Manage key account customers, even prospects for new customers.
- Represent the company to the client (client) and the project manager (architect).
- Ensure regular reporting to the client on the progress of the work and compliance with budgets.
- Deliver the sites to the customer per the costs and deadlines stipulated in the specifications.
- Guarantee the correct application of contracts and amendments related to the work to stakeholders, resolve disputes.
- Supervise after-sales service and follow-up of associated services (maintenance).
Required Skills
Excellent knowledge of the CONSTRUCTION consultant related to the field in which he operates: infrastructure (tourism, urban planning ...), building (industrial, housing, station). Strong management skills, mainly economic, administrative, and financial. The construction manager must be able to exercise transversal management on the various sites under his responsibility. Ability to negotiate and persuade to coordinate and optimize partnerships with service providers and subcontractors Mastery of the rules and legislation on public-private partnerships when the construction manager acts on behalf of public clients.
Leadership to represent the company manager and unite the teams present on the sites to achieve the project delivery objectives. Diplomacy, adaptability, and political understanding, to be able to take charge of high-level relationships. High availability, because the construction manager must lead several projects from upstream to downstream. Taste for mobility, the function of works manager involving many trips. Fluency in at least one foreign language for international construction sites.
Signing Off
The construction manager can also take over functions of assistance to the contracting authority within the framework of studies of real estate projects. It thus intervenes in the formalization of the functional specifications of the buildings (layout). He may be responsible for purchasing supplies common to several sites under his responsibility.
