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Project Management

Management is often a question of perspective that allows the identification of solutions.

OHC approaches every project using the tools of optimized project management. It clearly identifies the objective goals that are to be achieved and painstakingly ensures that the individual steps that are available to reach the goals are indeed practical and within the capacity of the team assembled to complete the project. This ensures a realistic effort versus completion scenario and proves beneficial to both the client and OHC. At the onset of each project, the OHC Project Manager will meet with the County's Project Manager to clearly define the project definition, deliverables, schedule and cost elements to ensure that the project is begun with the correct intermediate and final project milestones established to both parties satisfaction. Planning tools such as Timeline or Primevera are often used to schedule and plan large multi-task projects. A simple but comprehensive checklist approach will be used for smaller projects. OHC firmly believes in using the right tools and resources for projects, thereby executing and completing them expeditiously and cost effectively. Various project management approaches are envisaged to effectively provide the environmental consulting and engineering services required by the County as delineated in the invitation for proposal.

One of the most important aspects of project management is effective communications. Towards this end, OHC will assign a Project Manager who will be the main focal point of contact for all the environmental projects that the County will assign to OHC to manage and complete. The  Project Manager will plan, schedule and assemble from the pool of resources available the necessary manpower team to effectively execute and complete the project. He will ensure that detailed attention is given to the project elements to ensure that all the project sub deadlines are being accomplished. When and where problems arise, the Project Manager will effectively and quickly analyze the causes of the delays and improvise alternate routes to achieve the project objectives. OHC's Project Manager will often use the experience from other projects to anticipate possible problems and thus be proactive versus being reactive with respect to problems that can arise in most projects. Knowing the industry and the nature of necessary subcontract work helps very much towards the completion of environmental projects within budget and on schedule.

Another key element in project management is the capacity to be not dismayed by changes in the project scope and elements due to field conditions and additions to the overall project  objectives.

These types of changes are inevitable in most projects and it takes some maturity on the part of the Project Manager to deal dispassionately and effectively in such instances. An important aspect of these types of project scope changes is its impact on the cost of the project. OHC's Project Manager will always endeavor to keep such cost additions on a realistic level and inform the County's Project Manager of all the details of such cost revisions.

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