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The road to becoming a project manager?

  • 16-11-2009 8:35pm
    #1
    drunken_munky52
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    Just started project management as part of my course. Its quite different to what Iv'e been doing up to now (technical jargon).

    Is the road to becoming a senior project manager long and hard? Is it the ultimate position in an engineer's career to have?


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  • #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Its all about experience.

    Also depends on what kind of project manager you want to be


  • #3
    dan_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    No more so than any other type of senior manager.
    Don't expect to walk into it straight out of college either....senior project managers are in those positions almost entirely because of their experience. And also - - - -what type of project do you want to manage?
    It's not cut and dried, in that, you don't do a course then go straight into a job as a "project manager". And no, I don't think it's the ultimate position in an engineer's career. Depends on what you want personally.


  • #4
    SparkyLarks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭SparkyLarks


    Project Mamager is not the be all and end all of Engineering.
    If instead of becoming a project manager, you can become a technical expert, I know a lot of top class engineers, who don;t manage projects they solve technical problems. At the top level they fly around the world dropping into major projects with major issues.

    If you go down the PM route, even that isn't the end there is the role of Projects Manager, i.e overseeing all the projects for a Company, and then of course the board of mamagement....

    If your going the project management route you normally need to get experience as a working engineer, be it design, comissions, construction.

    As you work you will have to look at managing time, costs and the like. Then as small projects arise you will get to manage those, moving onto larger projects

    I'd reccomend getting a few years experience then looking at some mangement courses, diploma or MBA


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