ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTOR COMPANY’S NEEDS ON THE COMPETENCE OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR GRADUATES OF CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE

This study aims to analyze 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 Knowledge 5th standard. The research data were collected from 130 small, medium and large qualified contractor companies in East Java-Indonesia using Likert Scale (1- 5). Respondents are contractor directors and contractor managers. The sampling technique uses combination of purposive sampling and simple random sampling method. Methods of data analysis using Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The result of this research concludes that the requirement index of contractor to the competence of construction project management graduate of civil engineering graduates is obtained at 61.92% or in the category of graduates quite competent in the field of construction project management. There are 23.81% of contractors answered very competent, 40.48% competent, 21.43% competent enough, 9.52% incompetent and 4.76% very incompetent. There are 14 main priority factors that need to be improved by the civil engineering bachelor's education provider to improve the competence of graduates in the construction project management.