Abstract: For an EPC contract, the purposes of the employer are to better control the total project cost and effectively avoid the potential risks, while the contractor needs to manage the project more efficiently and reasonably to maximize the profit. Therefore, an in-depth research and analysis of the key points of project management in EPC model, including early-stage planning, engineering management, procurement management, design change management, stakeholders management, project human resource management, risk management and quality management, needs to be carried out to find out how to improve the management efficiency by using reasonable means and skills, so that the cost, schedule and quality of the project can be effectively controlled during the whole process including planning, engineering and construction. Also the management means and skills should be reasonably and flexibly adjusted according to the characteristics of different projects to help to understand the differences between the management models of domestic projects and overseas projects while achieving efficient project management, thus continuously improving the customer (employer) satisfaction and providing references for engineering companies to open up international market and promote the integration with overseas EPC projects

Key words: EPC, engineering management, procurement management, quality management, stakeholders management, design change management, risk management, human resource management