Overview
Your technical competence, along with your management skills, will determine how far you can go in your career. This course will help you observe the three stages of a project, acquire knowledge in nine project management areas, and apply management techniques to the unique challenges in your own projects. Why Should an Individual Attend?
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Gain End-to-End Project Insight: Understand the full lifecycle of engineering projects—from initiation and planning to execution and closure.
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Master Core Project Management Skills: Acquire practical knowledge across nine key areas including scope, cost, time, risk, and stakeholder management.
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Control Costs and Schedules Effectively: Learn to apply proven tools and techniques for budgeting, scheduling, and performance measurement, including earned value management.
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Lead with Confidence: Develop leadership capabilities to manage teams, delegate tasks, and run effective project meetings that drive results.
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Navigate Complex Project Environments: Build awareness of project complexity factors and learn to adapt strategies to different contexts and challenges.
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Boost Project Success Rates: Discover how to define clear objectives, prioritise goals, and monitor progress using key performance indicators.
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Enhance Collaboration and Communication: Strengthen your ability to manage stakeholder expectations, foster teamwork, and close projects successfully.
Outcomes
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
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Understanding the fundamentals of engineering project management.
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Key project management skills needed to maximise project performance.
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Planning, organising, implementing, and controlling engineering projects.
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Managing engineering projects risks.
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Engineering project scheduling and progress measurement techniques.
Program Outline
Engineering Project Fundamentals
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Key project terms and definitions.
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The engineering project life cycle.
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Engineering project complexity factors.
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Understanding project environment & context.
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Defining engineering project scope.
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Key financial concepts.
Engineering Project Planning & Organising
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Identify objectives & prioritising goals.
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Engineering project planning methods.
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Developing work & cost breakdown structures.
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Project management roles & responsibilities.
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Project estimating techniques.
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Project scheduling methods.
Performance & Progress Measurement
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Measuring projects for success.
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Project management success factors.
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Project monitoring & reporting methods.
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Key performance indicators.
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Performance measurement (earned value management).
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The time-cost trade-off.
Engineering Project Leadership
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Project interface management.
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Team building & the team development cycle.
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Communication, delegation, and motivation skills.
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Running effective project meetings.
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Managing stakeholder expectations.
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Successfully closing engineering projects.
Who Should Attend?
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Technical Assistants
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Procurement Managers and Asset Managers
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Cost Estimators and Project Planners
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Project Engineers and Discipline Engineers
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Project Managers and Contract Managers
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Quality Assurance Managers
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