Overview
Provides end-to-end technical leadership for construction delivery, ensuring safety, quality, and timely completion while strengthening partner and team capacity.
Tasks Summary
- Lead day-to-day site supervision across civil, mechanical, electrical, and associated works.
- Verify compliance with drawings, specifications, BoQs, method statements, and schedules.
- Plan, coordinate, and witness testing and commissioning activities.
- Coordinate Operations & Maintenance (O&M) training and handover.
- 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).
- Prepare quantity checks and recommendations for interim payments.
- Maintain technical and contract files.
- Enforce UNOPS and site-specific HSSE requirements and plans.
- Conduct toolbox talks, risk assessments, and incident reporting.
- Embed sustainability, gender, inclusion, and decent work practices.
- Ensure contractors’ Code of Conduct compliance.
- Track schedule, cost, scope, risk, and quality.
- Maintain dashboards, diaries, and photographic evidence.
- Produce weekly/monthly site reports and commissioning reports.
- Support project close-out documentation.
- Coordinate with design consultants, supervisors, contractors, suppliers, and authorities.
- Chair or record coordination meetings.
- Provide technical direction to junior engineers and site supervisors.
- Strengthen implementing partners’ and contractors’ delivery discipline.
- Support the organization, facilitation, and delivery of training and learning sessions.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives and Communities of Practice (CoPs).
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.
