Construction Management Engineer

United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS | Consultant |
Closing: 03 Feb 2026 11 days remaining
Location: Port Moresby

Overview

Provides end-to-end technical leadership across construction delivery, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery while strengthening partner, contractor, and team capacity.

Tasks Summary
  • Lead day-to-day site supervision across civil, mechanical, electrical and associated works.
  • Verify compliance with drawings, specifications, Bills of Quantity (BoQs), method statements and schedules.
  • Plan, coordinate and witness Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)/ Site Acceptance Test (SAT), testing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning.
  • Apply Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) procedures.
  • Manage non-conformities and closeout actions.
  • Review contractor progress, claims, variations and Extensions of Time (EoTs).
  • Enforce UNOPS and site-specific HSSE requirements and plans.
  • Track schedule, cost, scope, risk and quality.
  • Coordinate with design consultants, supervisors, contractors, suppliers and authorities.
  • Provide technical direction to junior engineers and site supervisors.
  • Support the organization, facilitation and delivery of training and learning sessions on project management and construction management.
Experience Requirements
  • Relevant experience in building construction, site supervision or infrastructure project management or similar fields.
  • Experience in quality control, monitoring and reporting within construction projects.
  • Demonstrable proficiency in the use of collaboration and productivity tools (e.g. MS Office, G-Suite, etc) and web-based management systems.
  • Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
  • Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
  • Experience in project documentation, report writing and technical communication is desired.
Qualification Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or related fields with 4 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 2 years of relevant experience is required.
  • A globally or nationally recognized professional certificate in Administration is desired.
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