Maintenance Engineer South Region

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The Directorate invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the following vacant position of Maintenance Engineer South Region. NB: The closing date for the submission of applications is 17th June 2022. No late applications will be accepted. Only those shortlisted for interviews will be contacted.

Applications should be submitted to the following email address [email protected]

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Engineer is responsible to assist the Senior Engineer; specifically does the following:-

Planning and Programming
a) assists in formulating annual capital development projects; road maintenance programmes and recommending the required resources.
b) plans and design of road development projects.
c) assists in the Preparation of medium and long term road upgrading and re-gravelling work programmes.
d) prepares project proposals, job reports and project completion reports.
e) maintains the inventory filing system for recording historically relevant data for each road.
f) monitors collection of field data relating to traffic counts, road and bridges scope inventories, production of job reports for new projects and completion reports at the end of each project.

Procurement and Contract Management
a) assists in the establishing of appropriate unit rates for the various categories of work activities executed by the contractors.
b) assist in the procurement of contract works and services.
c) assist in the contract management and monitoring

Supervision and Quality Assurance
a) assists in supervision and guidance of field staff in the execution of the approved work programme for the region.
b) assists in ensuring that road upgrading, re-gravelling and maintenance works in the region are carried out to the specified technical standards and that corrective action is taken as needed.
c) ensures that all environmental measures to protect the land in the vicinity of the roads are implemented.
d) Ensure and monitor compliance with regard to the issues of health and safety at the construction site.

Communication
a) implements standard work reporting systems and ensures reporting accuracy to facilitate evaluation of performance of the region.

Training
a) assist in the development and updating of syllabi for the training school.
b) assists in the development of curricula for Directorate trainees, technical officers and contractors.
c) conducts training for technical officers and contractors on the training centre’s courses.

Financial Management
a) assists in the preparation and monitoring of the annual divisional budget.
b) Structure consultants & contractors invoices and prepare IPCs

JOB SPECIFICATION
• BSc Degree / B Engineering – Civil Engineering from a recognised institution
o Minimum 3 years of working experience in Management and Supervision of Civil Engineering Works both Equipment Based and Labour Based works. 1-2 years should be in field assignment with strong knowledge of project management and contracts administration (management of both civil works and services).
• Experience in FIDIC contracts is mandatory

Other Skills:
• Good verbal communication
• Good written communication skills;
• Performance management skills
• Effective presentation and public speaking skills
• Knowledge of technical standards, procedures and contract specifications;
• Human resource management;
• Understanding of consultative processes;
• Computer literacy skills
• Strong project supervision skills are highly desirable
• Good communication skill (written and spoken)

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