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Trade District

🏗️ Construction Manager

Construction managers plan, budget, and supervise building projects from groundbreaking to inspection. Let's look at how someone gets there.

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What they do

  • Schedule crews and materials
  • Track budgets
  • Enforce safety rules
  • Coordinate inspections

Skills you use

  • Leadership
  • Budget math
  • Reading plans
  • Negotiation

School subjects that help

Training steps

  • Field experience in a trade
  • Project-management coursework

Certifications & licenses

  • OSHA 30
  • Certified Construction Manager

Every route in

Education or training
Trade experience, a certificate, or a construction-management degree.
College path
Bachelor's in construction management or civil engineering.
Trade or apprenticeship path
Move up from a skilled trade into supervision.
Ownership path
General contracting and development companies.

The path from today

  1. TodayStudy Mathematics, Career & College Readiness, Life Skills & Leadership.
  2. Skills to buildLeadership · Budget math · Reading plans · Negotiation
  3. Training stepsField experience in a trade → Project-management coursework
  4. Education or trainingTrade experience, a certificate, or a construction-management degree.
  5. Certifications & licensesOSHA 30 · Certified Construction Manager
  6. CareerConstruction Manager

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