Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Different Elements Of An Aviation Project Manager

By Jayne Rutledge


A professional aviation project manager is entrusted with the role of running all the operations that different air-based companies run. Most of these include the construction of new airports or expansion of the current ones. These professionals set up different budgets on which the operations will be based. They hire and assemble a team of experts who will run each of these operations. The decisions about the feasibility of an operation are done after the budgets have been drafted.

Managers are hired on different bases by the firms. In most cases, they are employed when the operations are about to be started. They help chart a path for the organizations and this is why most hold them with high regard. The stating of mission gives projects a direction. The objectives encompass what these operations are all about and the people who will help the firm achieve them. There is a need for them to be achievable and quantifiable.

Special tools are commonly employed during the management of the air operation. Management triangle is such a tool. This tool is very important to most operators. There are three sides to the tool. The internal players are mainly the workers who have been hired by the companies to carry out specialized duties. The external parties are the people outside the scope of various operations and end up being affected. Operations are different processes that end up having effects on the firm.

The direction of a firm is determined after the mission has been started. A company mission defines how each operation will be approached. In some cases, the goals in question have to be broken down into short term and long term. The inputs are determined by the goals. The inputs to an operation determine what an organization will produce as output.

There are various constraints to business projects. These include time, cost and scope. Managers have to create a special balance between the three elements. Time has to be defined very well. Thus encompasses the time frame by which certain stages of projects have to be completed. The costs are taken into consideration through the analysis of cost and benefits estimation. Before a venture starts, most of the managers prepares an estimate of the costs likely to be incurred and balances this with returns.

Managers hire and assemble a team of experts. This team has different professionals. There are engineers, architects, planners and system analysts. Each and every operation and duty entailing the construction is delegated to these professionals. Managers rarely do any line work. They are just supervisors.

Break down tools are used for breaking down complex work schematics in a number of smaller tools. The breaking down of large operations into smaller tools reduces the risks of handling complex operations. Critical value analysis tools are used to assess the operations that add value to the firms. Those that add value are invested in while those that do not are stopped in stages.

The aviation project manager has to factor in various elements of risk. This comes up due to uncertainty involved in the projection of prices and returns. It is their work to work on various ways of reducing the amount of risks within the ventures especially if the organization involved has a very low risk appetite.




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