Work gets done most efficiently if workers are divided into crews with a common purpose. When a crew is formed to tackle a particular job, one person is appointed the leader. This person is usually an experienced craftworker who has demonstrated leadership qualities. To become an effective leader, it helps if a trainee has natural leadership qualities, but there are specific job skills that each craftworker must learn in order to do the job well.
This module will teach the skills needed to be an effective leader, including the ability to communicate effectively, provide direction to a crew and effectively plan and schedule the work of a crew.
Work gets done most efficiently if workers are divided into crews with a common purpose. When a crew is formed to tackle a particular job, one person is appointed the leader. This person is usually an experienced craftworker who has demonstrated leadership qualities. To become an effective leader, it helps if a trainee has natural leadership qualities, but there are specific job skills that each craftworker must learn in order to do the job well.
This module will teach the skills needed to be an effective leader, including the ability to communicate effectively, provide direction to a crew and effectively plan and schedule the work of a crew.
- Teacher: Stephen Gast
Field supervisors play a major role in every construction company and every construction project. They are the frontline managers on the job, directly supervising workers and other field supervisors. They are both the engine and the anchor of the construction team, driving it toward effectiveness and efficiency, and stabilizing it with consistency and good judgment. To fill this role, field supervisors need more than experience in the field. They also need management skills in problem solving, planning, estimating, safety supervision, scheduling, controlling costs and resources, and, perhaps most important, managing people.
Project Supervision is a comprehensive, competency-based program that gives both veteran and new field managers a step-by-step approach to honing their natural abilities, developing essential skills, and generally improving their performance as leaders. As a one-level curriculum, Project Supervision covers topics such as Human Relations and Problem Solving, Safety, and Quality Control.
- Teacher: Stephen Gast
Today’s construction industry provides more than just buildings where people live, work, shop, worship, and learn. The construction industry also builds highways, bridges, airports, and tunnels that enable goods and people to move freely about the country. It builds reservoirs, dams, power stations, irrigation systems, sewer systems, and flood control networks that provide water and power and protects public health. Our lives would be significantly different without the construction industry, and considerably less comfortable
the construction industry is expected to continue to grow, and the need for more trained construction personnel is anticipated. The skills of project manager needs are acquired and refined through experience and education. NCCER has developed this project management training curriculum to provide that education and to give the industry the highly qualified, highly trained managers it needs to survive, roll, and prosper.
A construction project is a short term endeavor based on specifications and requirements that are driven by functional, budgetary, customer, and time constraints. The construction project manager needs to be sensitive to the project itself as well as the customer's desires and companies constraints that can appear between pre-construction and completion of the project. This course provides an overview of the responsibilities and characteristics of a project manager along with phases and flow of a project.
Welcome to the world of construction! Construction is one of the largest industries, offering excellent opportunities for high earnings, career advancement, and business ownership.
Work in construction offers a great variety of
career opportunities. People with many different talents and educational backgrounds—skilled
craftspersons, managers, supervisors, and superintendents—find job opportunities in construction
and related fields. As you will learn throughout
your training, many other industries depend upon
the work you will do in construction. From houses
and office buildings to factories, roads, and bridges—everything begins with construction.
- Teacher: Stephen Gast
Work gets done most efficiently if workers are divided into crews with a common purpose. When a crew is formed to tackle a particular job, one person is appointed the leader. This person is usually an experienced craftworker who has demonstrated leadership qualities. To become an effective leader, it helps if a trainee has natural leadership qualities, but there are specific job skills that each craftworker must learn in order to do the job well.
This module will teach the skills needed to be an effective leader, including the ability to communicate effectively, provide direction to a crew and effectively plan and schedule the work of a crew.
- Teacher: Stephen Gast