Question: You are working in an engineering consultancy services company in the oil and gas industry as Project Manager. Your company consists of an engineering department

You are working in an engineering consultancy services company in the oil and gas industry as Project Manager. Your company consists of an engineering department with different engineering disciplines and supported by the administrative, finance, commercial and human resource departments.Recently your client is facing a severe environmental issue at the Industrial Effluent Treatment System (IETS) where the acid scrubber system is releasing high concentrations of harmful gases to the environment. The project was awarded to your company to investigate the problem and to rectify or to modify the acid scrubber system so that it would only release the gases within the permissible limit.

As the Project Manager for the project, you are required to prepare a Project Master Plan to be presented during the kick-off meeting. Based on the given information,

a) Outlined TWO (2) points on what you believe you will accomplish as an engineering manager that you might not achieve as an engineer and listed ONE (1) point on how you would describe the role of an engineering manager in resolving an IETS problem.

b) Established TWO (2) points describing the difference between leadership and management in project completion.

c) To address the aforementioned issue, create a comprehensive project organisation chart based on Matrix Project Organization and state FIVE (5) points on how this type of project organisation chart can help engineers understand the "big picture" of their work.

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