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Team Roles

CSM Team Roles

Project Executive

Project Executives are industry experts with overall responsibility and accountability to a client for project management at the strategic level. They serve as the lead point of contact, involved from initial assessments, in the course of bond and/or funding strategy planning, preconstruction activities, into buyout throughout project closeout, and through the warranty period. Acting on the owner’s behalf, the project executive interacts with and offers guidance to the client project team on a regular basis.


Project Director

Project Directors are industry professionals who provide leadership to the Project Team. As champion of project collaboration, the project director provides guidance through recommended design improvements, construction techniques, and schedules, while seeking construction economies for all projects. Monitoring cost and progress information, the project director ensures the owner's best interests are served. Project Directors bring continuity and process efficiencies to the projects, and are involved for the duration of the pre-construction activities through project closeout, attending project/owner-architect meetings.


Project Manager

Project Managers are technical experts who provide day to day on site project management. They are responsible for project execution and maintaining continuous communication between the owner, design team, and trade contractors to inform all project members of project status, issues, schedule impacts, and cost changes. Through precise direction and verifying contract compliance by trade contractors, Project Managers ensure the Owner’s highest expectations are met. The Project Manager uses their acquired professional training, technical expertise, and superb organizational skills to coordinate the construction efforts, predict and resolve conflicts before they impact the project, and deliver timely and cost effective solutions. The Project Manager works under the direction of the Project Director.


Project Engineer

Project Engineers are technical staff who manage small scale projects or assist project managers in the performance of their duties on larger, complex jobs. They are proficient in scheduling, trade work coordination, safety compliance, and researching cost issues. Project Managers provide continuous support and assistance to the Project Engineer and typically assign them quality assurance duties.


Project Coordinator

Project Coordinators are contract and budget specialists providing assistance to the project team. Working under the direction of the Project Director, they ensure tracking and expediting of all required and relevant project documentation. Project Coordinators are responsible for coordinating efforts from both the corporate and field offices with the other team members, which include the Owner’s representative and the Architect. Project coordinators work under the direction of the Project Director and Project Manager.


Safety Director

The Safety Director is a corporate director and industry specialist responsible for the management of our behavior-based safety program and processes. Coordinating with project partners, the safety director maintains and promotes programs and policies which seek to shape behaviors towards safety focused outcomes in the performance of construction activities. The primary focus is on pre-planning and complete coordination. In addition, the safety director assists the Project Managers through the conduct of safety audits and inspections, accident investigations, and providing internal safety training and awareness.


Estimator

Estimators are highly skilled technical experts in construction techniques and costing. They perform constructability analysis, logistics planning, preliminary scheduling, and assist in market research and procurement strategies. Further, they maintain connections through various professional organizations for industry trending and awareness of new market products and processes. During the budgeting process, they calculate detailed takeoffs and controlled hard costs for competitively bid and construction managed projects. Estimators directly assist the Project Directors and Project Managers in analyzing bid comparisons for awarding of contracts and contract negotiations.


Accountant

Accounting professionals are technical experts who track all cash inflows and outflows after budgets and schedules are established by the project team. They oversee all billing with subcontractors and CSM. Additionally the Accounting Manager tracks all legal requirements, waivers, lien law compliance and ensures proper licensing per individual project type and location.


IT Field Engineer

The IT Field Engineers are industry technicians who support the full range of services offered by CSM Group, which include: consulting, local and wide-area networking, network security, wireless networks, document management, desktop support, exchange support, storage area network, active directory support, off-site data storage, and Web site and intranet development.