Project Engineer
Programs | West
This position is responsible to deliver as an overall subject matter expert in construction research, implementation, and training. He/she ensures that Habitat Nepal construction activities are delivered according to Habitat Housing Quality Standards and the Nepal Government codes and regulations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for monitoring and construction supervision of Housing Projects implemented through partners
Involves in construction research and development of appropriate technologies, and leads construction-related trainings
Ensures that Habitat Nepal construction designs meet Habitat for Humanity Housing Quality Standards and/or appropriate government building codes and regulations
Ensures construction research, preparation of BOQs, construction/ maintenance manuals
Develop guidelines on selection and quality of materials
Evaluate quality of materials from local vendors and select the optimum ones
Provides support for training design, proposal writing and research
Responsible for delivering or support to quality construction-related trainings as per DUDBC curriculum or any other curriculum as per Habitat Nepal request
Ensure that partners (engineers, site-supervisors and other staffs) fulfill their duty following their M&E responsibilities and feed into the real time database
Work in close coordination with the Habitat Nepal GIS/Database expert to maintain an updated database
Ensure timely reporting by providing the necessary information in a timely manner to the project manager/coordinator/supervisor
Undertake weekly/monthly/quarterly or as per need monitoring visits to the designated implementation areas to support the partner with implementation aspects of the project and/or monitoring visits as per program M&E plan
Provides subject matter expert (SME) support for GV build implementation, and works in close coordination with the Program Manager, GV Engineer and other GV staff
Provides supervision and oversight to partner staff, including performance, planning, goal setting, monitoring, feedback, evaluation and development
Liaison with all related stakeholders on district, municipality and community level to support the project implementation
Other related duties as assigned by supervisor
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
At least 3 years of relevant work experience in re-construction, including significant on-site or field experience
Professional Engineering License
Monitoring and supervisory experience preferred
OTHER INFORMATION
Duration: Through December 2020 (Extendable if funding and need permits)
Location: Habitat Field Office, West – Kanchanpur
Reports to: Program Manager
Field Visits: Frequent travel to project areas
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with an updated resume and application letter mentioning expected monthly gross salary. Please indicate the position applied in subject of the email and send it by February 19, 2020 addressed to:
Human Resource Department,
Habitat for Humanity International Nepal.
E-mail: recruitment@habitatnepal.org
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Habitat for Humanity started working in Nepal since 1997. In the eight years till 2005, Habitat for Humanity Nepal has helped 830 families to build decent homes in the districts of Kailali, Surkhet, Kaski, Chitwan and Jhapa. To increase its impact, HFH Nepal began to leverage on partnerships with non-governmental organizations, microfinance institutions, and village lending and saving groups. Driven by the overall vision of the organization, the Meaningful Life through Housing Campaign was launched in July 2011. Through the campaign, HFH Nepal aims to develop a people-driven and community-owned methodology to address the need for decent housing in a sustainable and viable way. Programs are largely focused on rural housing in eastern and western Nepal.
In June 2011, HFH Nepal celebrated its 10,000th family served and by the fiscal year ended 30 June 2014 more than 54,000 families were helped. The momentum continued until Nepal was hit by two major earthquakes on 25 April and 12 May, 2015.
The earthquakes, in April and May of 2015, destroyed and damaged more than 880,000 houses killing over 8,000 people. HFH Nepal’s disaster response included rubble removal with the help of local volunteers, distribution of temporary shelter kits and water backpacks for the affected families to enable survivors’ to fetch and store water. Through generous funding, HFH Nepal is helping affected families by providing technical assistance in conducting safety assessment of the damaged houses and distribution of winterization kits to the affected families to protect against the cold weather.
Through the Build Nepal strategy, Habitat Nepal is committed to building homes and hope in both disaster-affected and non-affected areas across the country.