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Works supervisor
The works supervisor holds a site end to end: several teams, a schedule, a budget, suppliers and a client to keep informed. It is the role where technical competence meets economic responsibility.
Holding a site and its economics
Preparation decides everything: site setup, supplies, phasing, chosen subcontractors. On site, the day splits between coordinating trades, technical decisions and handling disruptions — a late delivery, bad weather, a requested change. Running alongside is economic management: progress claims, variations, expenditure tracking by cost item. The supervisor reports regularly to the client, with facts rather than impressions.
- Prepare a site: setup, phasing, supplies
- Coordinate several trades and hold the overall schedule
- Track the budget, issue progress claims and negotiate a variation
- Run the handover and clear snags within the deadline
The region's construction sites
Housing and public buildings
Apartment blocks, schools, health centres: numerous programmes, driven by public and private clients alike.
Infrastructure
Roads, bridges, networks, ports: long sites demanding rigorous schedule and budget control.
Industrial works
Plant extensions, site camps, mining facilities: an environment where safety structures how the site is organised.
What the institute puts in writing
A duration, taught hours, credits and a level of responsibility: these are the four commitments the institute makes on this programme, and they are public. You will find them identical on the qualification page, in the official catalogue and on the certificate issued at the end. One figure, three surfaces, no divergence.
- qualification level
- 6
- months of programme
- 12
- taught hours
- 800 h
- credits
- 80
- competency blocks
- 5
Manager and professional
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Works Supervisor » qualification, code TP21.
The blocks that make up the framework
The framework is split into self-contained blocks, each with its own taught hours. That split serves three purposes: organising the training, organising the assessment, and letting an already experienced professional have what they already command recognised. The same structure is what makes prior-learning validation possible.
- Site preparation and planning
- 210 (26 %)
- Running the works
- 210 (26 %)
- Safety and co-activity
- 170 (21 %)
- Site economics
- 160 (20 %)
- Managerial conduct
- 50 (6 %)
- Site preparation and planning · 210 h — Studies, quantity surveying, scheduling, set-up, resources, supply
- Running the works · 210 h — Progress monitoring, coordinating trades, quality, handover
- Safety and co-activity · 170 h — Prevention plans, safety coordination, permits, inducting workers
- Site economics · 160 h — Budget, progress claims, variations, subcontracting, disputes
- Managerial conduct · 50 h — Authority on site, dealing with the client, handling the unexpected
Taking charge of a site
This table sets side by side what genuinely prepares for this role. Credits and taught hours measure the gap between two options; fees relate that gap to a budget. Those are the three questions a candidate asks, and the three answers sit on a single row.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Management Certificate · Professional certification | 6 months | 18 | 180 h | 2 900 000 GNF in total |
| Health, Industrial Safety and Environment · Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
Answers to the most frequent questions
Can it be reached from site work?
That is the most frequent trajectory: team leader, then supervisor. The qualification supplies what experience alone does not — the economics of a site, contractual formality and running a multi-trade schedule.
What comes beyond the site?
The construction projects director, at level 7, carries several operations, relations with funders and company strategy. It is also a natural bridge towards leading a contracting business.
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