Leadership
Their role is to execute the plan and lead their crew.
Who is a foreman?
The four major cost categories.
What are labour, equipment, subcontractors, and materials?
Built by solid partnerships with subcontractors.
What is mutual respect and an environment of shared success?
The preferred method of communication.
What is face-to-face?
The basics to focus on when analyzing an operation.
What are access, staging, material flow, equipment cycle times, and crew coordination?
This skill identifies tasks for others to allow leaders to focus on the bigger picture.
What is delegation?
Two forecast goals that should be shared daily to align efforts.
What are Manhour Factors (MHF) and Performance Factors (PF)?
Four parts of the subcontract.
What are scope, exclusions, deliverables, and payment terms?
This should be reviewed to understand who your counterpart is.
What is a zipper plan?
The least complex analysis option that should be scheduled at the 10% and 25% completion point.
What is an operational shutdown?
A type of environment created by good leaders.
What is an environment of fair-mindedness and teamwork?
Their role is to ensure accurate timekeeping and quantity tracking with crews.
Who is a foreman?
A type of undocumented issue that can lead to change orders and disputes if not identified early.
What are scope gaps?
This helps resolve issues faster and at the appropriate level.
What are strong client relations?
Specific objectives focused on improving operational efficiency.
What is minimizing downtime, removing unnecessary steps, or better allocating resources?
These expectations should be set by the leader for the team and put in writing.
What is a clear division of responsibilities?
Their role is to review claiming schemes and ensure alignment with actual field execution.
Who is a field engineer?
Held weekly with the subcontractor's management team.
What is a progress meeting?
This is Kiewit's role for our clients.
What is a "solutions provider"?
This kind of operation benefits the most from an analysis.
What are long duration, high man-hour operations with repetitive activities?
Kiewit's core values as leaders.
What are People, Integrity, Excellence, and Stewardship?
An example of a proactive response.
What is identifying cost and productivity risks early?
The risks of poor subcontractor management.
What are cost overruns, project-wide delays, safety risks, quality issues, and poor client relations?
These are important to learn and understand when interacting with clients.
What are hot button issues?
Most commonly used to analyze a single incident and involves looking for contributing factors.
What is a root cause analysis?