Technical Office Engineer (VAC-A952)

Job description

Our client is a construction company based in Ethiopia and they are currently looking to recruit a Technical Office Engineer for their offices /on site in Ethiopia. 

Job’s General Objective:

The successful candidate will be responsible to manage and control project scheduling, resource requirement, cost control, design review, quality control and laboratory function, payment/claims and surveying issues of the project. 

Job Duties

• Review project work program and follow up its compliance and implementation.
• Review material, machineries and manpower requirements of the project and follows up their delivery.
• Maintain and follow-up a critical material and equipment delivery status log; monitor status weekly.
• Makes a close follow-up of the operation and prepares cost analysis-variance from target or plan by reviewing job costs to date and review cost projections for remaining duration of the project.
• Initiate and determine change orders on operations according to degree and quantity of the contract specifications when such changes are necessary.
• Review and determine sub-contract work, ensure the work completed before effecting the payment.
• Determine and ensure that the executed work have the right quality by controlling all testing and sampling which is conducted at laboratory or site level; and performing routine job-site visits.
• Monitor on-site inspections and testing, and compare submitted samples against the actual work in place to verified required standards.
• Determine and verify shop drawings and field drawings for compliance with contract plans and specifications, and compare actual work against show drawing.
• Determine and verify compliance of tests, certificates, warranties, bonds, and as-built drawings with project requirements.
• Review and verify change order request with detail of quantity take of sheet and drawing and send to PM for approval purpose.
• Determine and submit as-built drawings of all approved deviations from contract documents and shop documents.
• Ensure that supporting record and evidence are maintained for request to extension of time and cost claim; and timely notification or correspondence letter submitted to consultant/client.
• Maintain logs for unit price, manpower-hours and material contracts or change orders.
• Ensures that all documents, correspondences, contract, RFI, etc. are kept properly.
• Review and send to PM a project daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly performance report.
• Supervise employees under him and evaluates their performance periodically.
• Perform other related tasks assigned by the Project Manager.

Job Requirements

• MSc. /BSc. Degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Technology and Management or related field.
• Previous experience in road/railway/dam construction and/or Design Projects (+- 10 years).
• Adequacy for the Assignment Years of experience as a Technical Office Engineer/Senior Quantity Surveyor in Design and Build Road Project (+- 8 years) and and project amount (=162,000,000 USD) for at least one project.

Job Benefits

• Salary is based on skills and experience
• Relocation package

TO APPLY for this job opportunity, send your CV (in English please) and include the reference: Technical Office Engineer - VAC-A952. We look forward to hearing from you!