Project SuperVISION® for SupervisorsCourses

Course Descriptions

Professional Construction Supervisor (PCS)

Leading the Project SuperVISION® core group is the Professional Construction Supervisor course. Its objective is to introduce the supervisor to the fundamentals of effective supervision emphasizing professionalism through knowledge and applied skills.

Topics Covered:

• How to be a professional field supervisor and produce results and impact profits
• How to apply the Total Safety Performance Program through effective preplanning and project scheduling
• The basic components of a master project plan and schedule, and how to prepare daily and weekly plans and schedules
• The basic logic and standard language of project planning and scheduling
• How to solve problems related to daily and weekly crew and project production and productivity, and apply the major components for improving productivity
• The types of contracts, basic parts of contracts and supporting documents, and how to maintain documentation
• The basic communication tools, how to actively listen, speak, instruct, write, make presentations, and conduct meetings
• How to manage important working relationships with owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and other contractors, and how to resolve conflict
• How to recruit people, carry out industry primary employment laws and regulations, how to be an effective leader and motivator, build a team, handle discipline, train staff, and set practical work objectives

Specifics:
Length: 40 hours
Certification Points: 10
CEU: 4.0
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Total Safety Performance (TSP)

Unlike other safety programs, this course teaches the supervisor how to encourage people to take individual responsibility for safety. This course stems from the fundamental belief that all safety ultimately depends on the accountability of each individual to maintain a safe and healthy place in which to work. This course teaches the importance of managing safety and productivity equally. Participants qualify for their 30-hour OSHA certification.

Topics Covered:

• How the management of safety is critical to company and employee health
• How to identify and control construction hazards
• How to demonstrate methods of effectively communicating safety information and enforcement of safety policies to contractors, material suppliers, and employees
• The how’s and why’s of appropriate record maintenance to comply with OSHA regulations
• Proper ways to impress upon subordinates the responsibility and accountability of each individual to maintain a safe workplace
• The proper use of OSHA 1926 standards
• How to pre-plan safe work activities into the construction schedule
• How to instruct all employees performing new construction activities in safety
• The proper methods to maintain protective equipment and replace it when needed
• How to handle an OSHA site visit

Specifics:
Length: 40 hours
Certification Points: 10
CEU: 4.0
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Effective Preplanning and Project Scheduling (EPS)

Careful planning and scheduling before and during construction make a job run smoothly and result in satisfied owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, construction workers, and company managers. This "how to" course teaches supervisors to better understand plans and schedules and to improve their skills by using the latest technology. Understanding computer-based planning and scheduling by actually using computers is built into this course.

This course will expose the supervisor to the need for and the process of preplanning construction projects as well as the mechanics and vocabulary of project scheduling. Project preplanning, several scheduling formats, planning for production, short interval planning, and schedule updating and revising will all be covered in depth. Upon completion of this course the supervisor understands the need for good planning and scheduling, understands the language and logic of scheduling, and is versed in many specific planning aids that can be used immediately upon returning to the jobsite.

Topics Covered:

• Why planning is the most cost-effective function of management and how to effectively apply basic planning principles to construction projects
• How to coordinate preplanning and develop a complete plan for a project
• Basic project scheduling concepts and how the logic inherent in construction activities can be expressed in a diagram, and ultimately converted to easily understood information
• How to organize and do detailed planning for multiple aspects of a job
• How to effectively use short-term planning techniques and forms
• How to update the schedule, and its legal implications

Specifics:
Length: 40 hours
Certification Points: 10
CEU: 4.0
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Cost Control and Productivity Improvement (CCP)

This course teaches the relationships between time, work completed, work-hours spent, schedule duration, equipment hours, and materials used. Production rates, productivity unit rates, work method improvements, and overall total project cost control will be explored. Upon completion of this course, the supervisor will have a solid understanding of what affects costs, and how to control those costs.

Additionally, productivity improvement offers the participants some very simple yet effective techniques to use on their projects. Materials for improving work methods and project administration will be developed using actual case studies.

Topics Covered:

• The basic activities to be accomplished in a project, and what makes it challenging
• The difference between production and productivity, and how the estimate is converted to budgets and ultimately to productivity measurements
• Differences between reporting and controlling costs
• Tools to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of work performed
• The need for detailed planning for key production items, and how to structure that planning so it is most effective
• How fixed costs such as subcontractor’s equipment, materials costs, and safety can affect overall project costs

Specifics: Length: 40 hours
Certification Points: 10
CEU: 4.0
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The Human Side of Project Success (HS)

Supervising the people side of a construction project is the most complex and sometimes the most difficult part of a supervisor’s job. This course will provide a realistic learning experience based on the human side of project success. The entire spectrum of human relations issues as they relate to construction projects will be covered. Starting with a basic overview of the traditional discussion of basic human needs, motivators and satisfiers, the course will cause a student to introspectively look at his or her own needs, goals, paradigms, and style of supervision.

The course will then focus on subordinates, their needs, their goals, and their paradigms. With this understanding, students will study topics including the project environment, teams and team building, communications, conflict and crisis management, laws, regulations and policies, and relationships at all levels.

Topics Covered:

• Basic concepts of human behavior needs, wants, motivators, and satisfiers
• How to evaluate and prioritize needs and wants, and how they affect individuals
• How the project environment affects the human side of the project
• The supervisor’s role in project staffing and the applicable laws and support activities
• How teams work and their importance to a successful project
• How to build effective communication networks on the job
• How to identify and respond to conflict, crisis, and discipline
• Applicable government laws and regulations, and how to get specific advice and help
• The importance of maintaining good relationships with the key groups associated with the project

Specifics: Length: 40 hours
Certification Points: 10
CEU: 4.0
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Please contact Carolyn Milliron (5255) at the CAGC Charlotte Office, 704-372-1450 for more information.