Ep.258 - A Super's Biggest Support

Jason addresses utilizing field engineers as superintendents' best support system. Superintendents plan and execute work while field engineers are builders who handle layout, quality control, safety, and production tracking. Contractors are incentivized to undercut costs upfront and pay for mistakes out of contingency rather than investing in field engineers. Jason argues spending 230k on field engineers prevents 280k in mistakes and black eyes.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Field engineers are builders: Superintendents plan and execute, field engineers do dirty work with foreman and craft
• Quality control frontline: Layout, production tracking, trend charts, high risk features of work, overhead sealing inspections
• Safety presence daily: Help with pretask plans, paperwork, build rapport with trades, brainwashed into right behaviors
• CM at risk incentive problem: Easier to negotiate contingency for mistakes than spend money upfront on field engineers
• Shortchanging extends duration and cost: Undercut project financially you spend more money, shorten duration you extend it
• Oakland on fire for field engineers: Great program, leads in each region, best boot camps and training right now

If you try to shorten duration too much you increase duration, if you shortchange project financially you spend more money.

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