Main Responsibilities of a Project Manager at SoCalGas
Michael, a Project Manager at SoCalGas, identifies three core pillars of project management: "manage your cost, manage your schedule, and manage quality," with safety as a fourth, often invisible, component. Currently focusing on detailed design engineering, Michael's responsibilities center on "hitting our milestones" and managing expectations between the client and contractor throughout the project's lifecycle.
Project Management, Cost Management, Schedule Management, Quality Management, Safety Management
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Michael Andrawis
Project Manager
SoCalGas
University of California, Riverside 2012
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management
Engineering - Chemical
Energy & Utilities
Operations and Project Management
Worked 20+ Hours in School
Video Highlights
1. Managing project costs, schedule, and quality are the three main pillars of project management.
2. Safety is an often-overlooked, but crucial, fourth pillar.
3. A project manager's responsibilities shift depending on the project stage, requiring adaptability and a focus on key milestones and client/contractor expectations.
Transcript
What are your main responsibilities within your role?
That's a good question. As a project manager, there are three main pillars to effective project management. You need to manage your costs, your schedule, and your quality.
These three principles are interconnected. If you shift one, another may be affected. There's also a fourth, often invisible, pillar: safety.
My job as a project manager is to execute based on these three pillars, depending on the project's current stage. For example, we're close to negotiating a contract to begin detailed design engineering.
Over the next year and a half, my focus will be on the schedule, hitting milestones in engineering, design, and procurement. I'll also ensure we're adhering to contract expectations. This focus will obviously shift as we move towards procurement and construction.
Then, we'll manage deliverables from the contractor. Essentially, it's about executing and managing key milestones and expectations from the client and contractor's perspective. That's pretty much it.
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