Analysis of contractor company requirements on the competence of construction project management for graduates of civil engineering degree

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the level of needs of contractor companies to the competence of construction project management for graduates of civil engineering scholars. The research variables consisted of a group management process and a construction project management knowledge area consisting of 53 indicators adopted from the Project Management Body of Knowledge5th standard. The research data were collected from 130 contractor companies in East Java-Indonesia using Likert Scale (1-5). Respondents were contractor directors and contractor managers. The sampling technique used combination of purposive sampling and simple random sampling method. Methods of data analysis used Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The result of this research concluded that the requirement index of contractor to the competence of construction project management graduate of civil engineering graduates was obtained 61.92% or in the category of graduates was quite competent in the field of construction project management. There were 23.81% of contractors answered very competent, 40.48% was competent, 21.43% was competent enough, 9.52% was incompetent and 4.76% was very incompetent. There were 14 main priority factors that needed to be improved by the civil engineering bachelor’s education provider to improve the competence of graduates in the construction project management.