Project Proposal Personnel

When you submit your course project proposal, your budget section should indicate the employees that will be working on the project. For the course proposal, you can include fictitious people (don't do that on a real proposal!), but we want you to consider the personnel levels. So if you include the employee names, you should also include their level to indicate experience level. Later in the semester when costs are added to the project file (in MS Project or ProjectLibre), you will be including the human resources by job type and level to get you thinking about who would be doing the work. For example, you don't need a senior engineer to be doing the work that could be done by a Level 1 engineer. Similarly, you don't need a senior trainer to do work that could be done by an entry-level trainer.

Examples of Employee Types and Levels

Here are some examples of employee types and levels that might be used for the two course RFPs. The hourly rate for each employee type and level would vary by position, discipline, and level. This is not a comprehensive list but is intended to get you thinking about the personnel that you would have in your project proposal. The point of this is that you need to illustrate that you have thought through the type of employee and experience level required for your tasks and indicate that by assigning the "type" and "level" of the resources used.

SVRA Boardwalk Replacement RFP

For the engineering personnel, you would also specify discipline:

• Engineer I: Entry-level engineer that works with a senior staff engineer to learn the relevant processes, procedures, practices, and regulations.
• Engineer II: Independent contributor to the project teamwork.
• Staff Engineer: Completes all functions of lower level engineers as well as higher level, more complex engineering tasks. May be responsible for monitoring each assignment and project and coordinating assignments.
• Senior Staff Engineer: Completes function of lower level engineers and also coordinates and establishes approvals for engineering work.

Other employee types and levels may include:

• Electrician I
• Electrician II
• Draftsman
• Construction Site Foreman
• Construction Worker

Engineering Leadership Development Camp RFP

For those working on the Engineering Leadership Development Camp RFP, below are employee types and levels you may wish to consider:

• Trainer I: Applies basic skills while developing some specialized skills in procedures, operations, and so on; performs routine tasks, limited decision-making.
• Trainer II: Applies skills and job knowledge in area of expertise; may adapt procedures, operations, techniques, and so on to meet needs of area of specialization; may work on nonroutine tasks.
• Trainer III: Applies full range of job knowledge and specialized skills; frequently adapts procedures, techniques, and so on to meet specialized needs; may serve as lead; relies on experience and judgment; regularly works on varied and complex tasks.

Other employee types and levels may include

• Training Manager
• Instructional Designer
• Administrative Assistant

You are not limited to any of the above disciplines or levels, and again these are not comprehensive. Rather, they are intended to get you to think about the needed resources for your project.

---