Overview
The role involves providing strategic and technical advice for infrastructure rehabilitation projects, focusing on design review, project management, and contract management to strengthen national preparedness and response capabilities.
Tasks Summary
- Plan and coordinate technical workplans, site visits, meetings, and workshops.
- Conduct multidisciplinary condition assessments.
- Identify technical, ESSH, administrative, and operational risks and propose mitigation measures.
- Prepare rehabilitation scope recommendations and implementation plans.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, correspondence, and financial records.
- Review architectural, civil/structural, electrical, and mechanical designs.
- Ensure constructability, BOQ alignment, and compliance with FAO standards.
- Review and validate outputs from engineering design and CAD software.
- Review technical specifications and Bills of Quantities (BOQs).
- Provide technical inputs to bid evaluations and procurement processes.
- Support contract and asset management.
- Monitor payment processes and support financial documentation.
- Coordinate with end-users, contractors, consultants, and relevant authorities.
- Organize project meetings, prepare minutes, track action points, and report on progress.
- Support effective communication among all project stakeholders.
- Support Engineer/Employer’s Representative functions.
- Review contractor programmes, method statements, and technical submissions.
- Monitor construction progress, quality, and compliance.
- Ensure enforcement of ESSH and site safety requirements.
- Support resolution of technical and operational issues.
- Verify quantities and support certification of Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs).
- Review variation orders and cost claims.
- Witness testing and commissioning activities.
- Support practical completion, defects rectification, and final project close-out.
Experience Requirements
- At least eight (8) years of relevant professional experience in infrastructure rehabilitation, building construction, site supervision, or construction/project management.
- Demonstrated experience in engineering design and design review, construction supervision, and contract management.
- Working knowledge of FIDIC conditions of contract and ESSH implementation in construction projects.
- Experience in quality control, monitoring, and reporting within construction projects.
- Experience with a UN Agency is an added advantage.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work.
Qualification Requirements
• University degree in Engineering (Civil, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, or related discipline).
