Senior Associate Civil Engineer - RETAINER

Functional Responsibilities:

The Senior Associate Civil Engineering shall be responsible to contribute to the proposed design solutions to meet the minimum requirements for life safety and functionality as stated in the applicable UNOPS design planning manual.

The Senior Associate Civil Engineer contributes to knowledge sharing and operational advice within the practice, working with a productive and collaborative approach, with colleagues at all levels and across the Jerusalem office and other Offices within the Organization of which the ISSC is engaged in providing support to.

Under the direct supervision of Head of the ISSC, and in full coordination with the Lead Civil Engineer, the Senior Associate  Civil Engineer shall be responsible of the below duties:

• Provide procedural support to the ISSC team in assuring the safety and quality of designs for transportation, Civil Roadway design, Highway design and Drainage / stormwater design  infrastructure. Applying his/her technical expertise and professional experience to evaluate whether the proposed design solution meets the specified requirements, and at minimum the requirements of UNOPS applicable design planning manual.

• Check process-wise that  the production of structural designs meet the high standards expected by UNOPS, while delivering the program within its time and budget constraints

• Preparation of comprehensive design documentation, drawings,  calculations, specifications, BoQs and other documents to meet the required quality and detailing.

• Highlight the need to seek additional information or explanation, if necessary, to understand the rationale for decisions contained in the design.

• Contribute to technical feedback, observations and advice that will lead to the improvement of the process for designs to meet the requirements.  

• Assist the ISSC team in completing the relevant design review checklist and/ or compiling the design review report including the feedback, observations and design review findings.

• Ensure that the identified design solution has met the functional statement of the applicable UNOPS design planning manual and is compliant with UNOPS policy for sustainable infrastructure.

• Check & verify that UNOPS design planning manual and any relevant national or international standards must be jointly applied and compliance with the more stringent standard is required.

• Check & verify that the design solution complies with and, in some cases, surpass national standards related to life safety.

• In the performance of his/her services, the Civil Engineer will provide independent recommendations to the relevant processes, free of conflicts of interests, and be able to maintain the integrity of the technical opinion against project pressures.

• Contribute to the dissemination and sharing of best practices and lessons learned for development planning and knowledge building.

• Maintain effective communication with ISSC team members and with the project team.

• Perform quality control, design review for different infrastructure design works including but not limited to:

1. Buildings

2. Water and sanitation

3. PV structures

4. Civil Roadway design

5. Highway design

6. Drainage / stormwater design

7. Traffic engineering.

• Applying technical expertise and professional experience in support to design development and infrastructure assessment tasks and processes.

• Use computer-assisted engineering and design software as necessary to perform design review / design support tasks, such as:

  • AutoCAD.

  • Civil 3D.

  • Project Scheduling software such as Primavera, MS Project or similar

  • GIS based Traffic software

  • BIM based software

  • Hydraulic simulation software

• Knowledge of the following:

• Modern and complex principles and practices of civil/road engineering.

• Methods and techniques of project scheduling.

• Principles of municipal budget preparation and control.

• Principles and practices of construction management.

• Structural design engineering and analysis.

• Sanitary engineering, waste engineering and wastewater reclamation regulations.

• Wastewater treatment, collection and disposal.

• Traffic engineering.

• Transportation planning and traffic forecasting models.

• Civil engineering hydraulics for water, wastewater and reclaimed water systems including pumps, pipes,

• Environmental engineering.

• Construction safety practices.

• Design and construction of roadway asphalt construction