Engineering Management

Engineering Management

Executive Summary

SMEC is a professional services firm with Australian origins and a strong global footprint. SMEC has over 5000 employees and established network of more Than 70 Offices throughout the Middle East, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America and South America. The company is specialize in providing high quality consultancy services and engineering project management including natural resources and environment, transport, water, Geotechnical, Mining and Tunneling Services, Urban Development, Energy and Renewable, Social Development, and Government and Advisory Services. Consultancy services include laboratory testing operation and maintenance, tender and contract management, commissioning, laboratory testing, computer modeling, detailed design, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, construction supervision, quality assurance, , field investigations, training and project management.

SMEC is among the top most Engineering Company in Australia and has been graded as top 100 International Design Firms for fourteen consecutive years. Its successful projects include Gateway Upgrade Project, Queensland project, Victoria (Planning and Urban Development category); and Ipswich Motorway Upgrade (Dinmore to Goodna) Mine Fill Project. SMEC is not directly involved in the construction and equipment installation. They create projects that provide their funding, negotiate with suppliers and contractors are hired, which, in turn, is directly carries out the construction, installation and implementation of other works (http://www.smec.com, 2012).

The technology is the set of scientific and empirical knowledge, skills, experience and organization required to produce, distribute, sell and use goods and services. It includes both theoretical and practical knowledge by using physical means. It refers to know how, methods and production processes, and organizational management, among others, as well as the identification and assimilation of past successes and failures, capacity and skills of human resources, etc. From another point of view, the technology also can be understood as the activity of searching for applications to existing knowledge. The scientific and technological knowledge have different characteristics. The former are more complex, arising from the observation and analysis and seek to provide sets of concepts that are more comprehensive. In return, it turns out to be as simple as possible with respect to the phenomena, its links and its variations, their causes and consequences.

Technological expertise at SMEC includes new procedures through which practical purposes are reached. They are even considered as the knowledge of proven procedures by which predetermined objectives are achieved. Scientific advances consist of new or improved theoretical explanations of certain phenomena. Technological knowledge is fed into various objects: Objects (hardware): materials, machinery, and equipment, in records (software): procedures, manuals, databases, in man (human-ware): knowledge, skills, and in institutions (org-ware): structures and organizational forms, interactions, business experience (http://www.smec.com, 2012).

To set up a project is the most important task that is performed by the managers within the organization. Setting up a project is the initial stage and needs great concentration of the managers to start a project. Different steps are involved in setting up a project and all the step needs to be completed in a perfect manner so that the goals of the project can be achieved in a significant ...