How to Answer: What was the most difficult estimating assignment you have faced? How did you get through?
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28. What was the most difficult estimating assignment you have faced? How did you get through?
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1. Taking the Continues Miner out from underground. Team work, ideas, and strategy.
2. Most difficult would be where I was given the task of supervising an under performing team whose manager had just walked out on. I geared the guys up, threw in some incentives and did some monitoring and evaluation on each individual.
3. Cost Controlling a running projects for more than a one year, Revised the Book of quantity, Studied the contract and the aggrements.
4. I was a intern in construction company, in the night, all the workers were staying there because of the casting of slab. suddenly there was a dispute between workers and engineers and nobody was agree to work that night. So I was the only person who tried to talked to the workers... And manage thaT SITUATION ANYHOW AND IT WORKED
5. Building on a limited budget. I completed the task with a lot of research in order to find reasonable material and labor costs.
6. Count the no. Of hose reels.
7. Doing many project for the same bid date with many details. I completed with organization and I used all tools.
8. The most difficult task that I faced in the drywall business was when the ceiling of the house is not level and the spacing of the studs is more than 16in on center.
9. Offshore Bid. With confidence.
10. Shipping of structures as full modularised. Need to check all the points during transportation...