Overview
Manage infrastructure projects, including design, tendering, implementation, and closure, ensuring quality assurance and compliance with technical aspects.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise design, tendering, implementation, and closure of infrastructure projects.
- Prepare/review tender documents, BOQ, and verify prices.
- Follow up on tenders, assist in technical analysis and review evaluation reports.
- Conduct field technical engineering follow-up on site implementation and progress.
- Arrange weekly meetings with contractors and draft Minutes of meetings.
- Review field inspection reports.
- Assist in drafting and issuing tenders, budgets, cash flows, and preliminary schedules.
- Follow up on project schedules, coordinate activities, and solve site problems.
- Assist in approving materials and follow up on their installation.
- Monitor daily site activities and lead site engineers.
- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reports on site development and contractor personnel.
- Supervise and monitor physical and financial progress against work plans.
- Review workshop drawings and as-built drawings.
- Prepare variation orders and review details with contractors.
- Prepare payment certificates and update site measurements versus BOQ weekly.
- Follow up on required tests for materials, concrete, or equipment.
- Monitor access, storage, and distribution of coordinated materials.
- File project documents and records.
- Prepare substantial completion certificates and obtain project close-out documents.
- Monitor and ensure safety precautions are implemented.
- Monitor project risks and issues and provide solutions.
- Identify changes and challenges in the external environment and suggest corrective measures.
- Monitor and ensure gender mainstreaming considerations are embedded in project activities.
- Ensure project implementation complies with UNDP Rules and Regulations.
- Liaise with stakeholders and relevant authorities.
- Prepare and assist in finalization of reporting requirements, filing system, and communication materials.
- Handle correspondence and maintain the filing system.
- Document lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
- Monitor project implementation against established indicators.
- Support the development of communication and visibility materials.
- Ensure donor branding and visibility requirements are fulfilled.
- Identify, synthesize, and document best practices and lessons learned.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years (with High School Diploma) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in supervising similar civil construction projects including health and public buildings.
- Experience in the environmental requirements in construction of public buildings.
- Experience in AutoCAD drafting and drawings.
- Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Project planning software.
- Proven experience in project/construction planning.
- Professional experience in reports writing, email writing, preparation of Meetings minutes, etc.
- Experience and knowledge of the local rules and regulations for construction in East Jerusalem.
- Demonstrated experience in site supervision.
- Certification in health and safety for infrastructure projects.
- Experience in quantity surveying and construction measurement.
- Familiarity with UN and/or UNDP procedures.
Qualifications
- Secondary Education is required.
- Or A university degree (bachelor´s degree) in Civil Engineering will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
- Valid membership in Local or International Engineering Association is required.
