The Building Alliance for Local Advancement, Development, and Investment (BALADI) program is a USAID funded program that supports locally-generated socio-economic development projects throughout Lebanon. The BALADI program seeks to encourage service delivery by local governments through municipal projects that respond to citizens’ needs. It assists municipalities and communities that have collaborated together to prepare and well plan for livelihood improvement projects.
Position Summary:
The Civil Engineer will be technically supporting RMF/BALADI team to ensure the execution of Construction works for all USAID/Baladi Projects. He/she will also play an advisory role to BALADI’s stakeholders in ensuring sustainability of these initiatives.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee day to day project implementation and ensure effective and timely completion of the infrastructure interventions according to project specifications and standards.
- Supervise the implementation of the technical components of the project contracted.
- Ensure proper project implementation, full compliance with required standards and specifications.
- Conduct regular Site inspection to check if the works on site are moving as per drawing, as per material approved, as per method statement and as per quality control procedure.
- Generate, in coordination with the Project Manager and the Deputy Program Director, designs, illustrations, and Bills of Quantities (BOQ) for the required projects.
- Conduct field assessments and coordinate with different stakeholders to determine the scope of work, resource requirements, and estimated costs.
- Monitor work progress as per USAID/Baladi regulations and standards.
- Prepare weekly field plans/reports to be submitted to the Project Manager; Support in establishing and maintaining proper project documentation and records, including but not limited to:
- Needs assessments questionnaires, monitoring questionnaires, certificates of vouchers receipts, consolidated list of beneficiaries, photos etc.
- Identify equipment and material needs by developing a detailed bill of quantities (BOQ), and in co-operation with the local Procurement team assess what is available in the local market.
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
- 5+ years professional experience in Site and Field Engineering
- 5+ years professional experience in performing inspections in the civil discipline on construction projects
- Qualified in language and writing skills and ability to produce high-quality professional reports, and technical summaries
- Qualified presentation skills and ability to communicate to large audiences.
- Qualified people skills with the ability to communicate effectively in person, verbally and in writing.
- Strong communication & leadership skills and the ability to organize and conduct meetings & workshops.
- Ability to work in the office and travel on-location.
- Mastery of computerized tools, specifically with Autocad, Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Fluent in English and Arabic.
- Deadline for application is on Friday, May 18, 2018.
To those interested, please apply at: [email protected]
