Employability skill 

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include: 

Communication 

• Analyses, evaluates and interprets a range of complex and technical documents, including relevant regulatory, legislative, and licensing requirements, codes and standards, plans, drawings and specifications, invitations to tender, contracts and procurement reports
• Discusses construction issues and compliance issues with relevant stakeholder
• Maintains, checks, records and reports information
• Understands relevant definitions, terminology, symbols and language
• Interprets complex numerical information
• Prepares complex business documents, including development proposals and feasibility studies, tenders, staff duty schedules, reports, project briefs, organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct and strategic plans
• Communicates effectively with a range of relevant parties
• Negotiates project approvals
• Interprets strategic and sometimes ambiguous information
• Provides relevant legal, regulatory and administrative advice and feedback to colleagues as required
• Evaluates resource ordering information for compliance
• Establishes communication policies and principles, review and feedback systems, recording and evaluation systems, and documentation processes
• Reads relevant publications to maintain contemporary industry knowledge

Teamwork 

• Uses network contacts to generate business opportunities
• Supervises and monitors performance of systems and individuals
• Interacts with internal and external personnel
• Manages relationships on legal matters
• Facilitates meetings between client and teams
• Maintains effective industrial relationships with subcontractors
• Consults and works with industry professionals on construction projects
• Coordinates input of expert advice where appropriate

Problem solving 

• Analyses construction problems and applies appropriate and compliant remedial solutions
• Assesses structural integrity of large, high rise and complex buildings
• Performs various complex calculations relating to costings and returns, building designs' structural requirements and loads, effects of force and movement on structural elements, analysis of behaviours and properties of structural materials, quantitative analysis of market data and sensitivity analysis
• Uses strategic level skills to conceptualise solutions to unique problems
• Takes remedial action to address non-compliance issues
• Addresses and resolves industrial relations issues
• Deals effectively with procurement problems and delays
• Conducts risk assessment of facilities management outcomes

Initiative and enterprise 

• Develops effective and compliant design solutions and quality assurance processes
• Generates and directs development of new projects
• Identifies potential projects and develops feasibility studies
• Demonstrates strong and decisive leadership
• Facilitates implementation of various new management systems
• Implements energy conservation strategies and cost saving practices
• Develops and reviews workplace sustainability policy
• Establishes and implements costing and construction documentation quality control systems
• Formulates investment scenarios

Planning and organising 

• Establishes processes to coordinate others' work
• Manages project commissioning
• Delegates and directs work activities
• Selects and deploys resources to enable new project development
• Establishes, maintains and reviews contract administration procedures and frameworks
• Develops strategic plans for the development of contracts administration and facilities/asset management
• Manages processes for legal obligations of a building or construction contract, including ensuring required licences are obtained and regulatory compliance is administered
• Manages processes associated with tender development for major projects and resource procurement and acquisition for building or construction projects
• Develops, plans and implements systems designed to manage environmental practices and processes, including workplace sustainability policy
• Develops and implements estimating and tendering systems, building or construction planning processes
• Plans, develops and implements building or construction, energy conservation and management practices and processes
• Directs and manages design and development of the organisation's project planning system
• Manages and administers development of documentation for building or construction projects
• Applies structural principles to the planning of the erection and demolition of a structure and coordinates and manages the structural elements of the construction process
• Gathers relevant information to conduct feasibility studies

Self management 

• Understands organisational and professional procedures, ethical practices and business standards
• Recognises limitations of own work role, responsibilities and professional abilities

Learning 

• Ensures staff receive appropriate training and instruction in matters relating to insurance and taxation and are made aware of their responsibilities
• Ensures staff are trained and managed to ensure that quality assurance practices and energy conservation and management practices are applied

Technology 

• Operates office equipment, computers and electronic communication systems
• Understands and applies new technologies in concrete

This qualification is designed to meet the needs of builders, including selecting contractors, overseeing the work and its quality, and liaising with the client. The builder may also be the appropriately licensed person with responsibility under the relevant building licensing authority in the State or Territory.

The qualification also meets the needs of senior managers within building, construction and services firms typically working in larger organisations and managing more complex projects and processes.

Occupational titles may include:

• Construction manager.

The qualification has core unit of competency requirements that cover common skills for the construction industry.

The construction industry strongly affirms that training and assessment leading to recognition of skills must be undertaken in a real or very closely simulated workplace environment and this qualification requires all included units of competency to be delivered in this context.

Completion of the general induction training program specified by the National Code of Practice for Induction Training for Construction Work (ASCC 2007) is required before entering a construction work site. Achievement of unit CPCCOHS1001A covers this requirement.

Additional units of competency may be required to meet builder registration requirements in various States and Territories.