It's your first week as a project engineer on a site where the superintendent has run jobs for thirty years and openly calls the trailer staff the paperwork department. You've been handed the RFI and submittal logs, and both are weeks behind. How do you establish yourself?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

It's your first week as a project engineer on a site where the superintendent has run jobs for thirty years and openly calls the trailer staff the paperwork department. You've been handed the RFI and submittal logs, and both are weeks behind. How do you establish yourself?

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