Job Description
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
Reporting directly to the JICA VI Project Manager, the QA/QC Engineer is expected to perform the following duties and responsibilities:
- Prepare QA/QC plans for new construction and refurbishment work.
- Ensure the establishment of quality procedures including time limits for inspection, sampling and testing of works and other QA/QC requirements.
- Oversee and manage quality assessment of materials through regular and rigid laboratory tests.
- Ensure specific quality standards are constantly met at all levels of construction projects.
- In consultation with the project staff, review technical specifications and recommend standard construction specifications for all items of works for their effective use in projects’ works.
- Review all standard test forms to be used during laboratory tests, QA testing schedules and procedures and evaluate results as appropriate.
- Review contractor practices and conventional methodologies and make recommendations where remedial action is required.
- Work with project engineers and design consultants for establishing procedures with time limits for the inspection, sampling and testing of works and all other QA/QC requirements.
- Conduct initial survey queries on sources to materials, ensuring quality and quantity is of economic value to the project.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned.
Monitoring and Progress Controls
- Establishment of procedures with time limits for inspection, sampling and testing of works and all other QC/QA requirements.
- Implementation and monitoring of quality assessments.
- Monthly QA/QC report to the Project Manager on project QA/QC activities.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Qualifications and Experience
a. Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with an additional 5 years of relevant experience in Engineering & Construction.
b. Work Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in construction work with emphasis on materials testing, quality control and assurance, laboratory testing and a firm understanding of requirements and specifications of testing and materials.
- Demonstrated experience in pre-stressing works and quality control, and experience in different classes of concrete mix-design, under different condition of construction procedures.
- Knowledge of procurement practices an advantage.
- Knowledge of UN/UNOPS rules and regulations highly advantageous.
c. Key Competencies
- Demonstrated planning and organizational skills and ability to coordinate the work of others, work on tight deadlines, and handle multiple concurrent activities;
- High degree of personal initiative and willingness to accept wide responsibilities;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity;
- Excellent communication skills (spoken, written and presentational), including ability to present sensitive issues/positions and to write reports and technical decisions quantitatively justified;
- Proficiency in usage of computers, office software packages and advance design management software.
- Competent user of project control software, such as MS Project.
Excellent knowledge of both written and oral English is required
About the Organization
Background Information - UNOPS
UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.
UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.
Working with us
UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.
Diversity
With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.
Work life harmonization
UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.
Afghanistan
UNOPS strategy for Afghanistan is aimed at providing maximum support to the Government and people of Afghanistan though the delivery of projects and services in line with the government’s own priorities. The UNOPS Afghanistan Operation Center (AFOC) has been established as an organizational mechanism to deliver a range of projects for which UNOPS has been designated as the implementation agency. At present, UNOPS AFOC is implementing a number of projects in a range of sectors including infrastructure (roads and schools) development, capacity building to various ministries, and environmental protection, among others, on behalf of the Government of Afghanistan and the donor community.
The functional objective of UNOPS AFOC is to deliver projects in an efficient and effective manner, to achieve the development outcomes sought by the Government of Afghanistan and the donor community, where capacity building is always considered and encouraged. The aim of UNOPS AFOC is to provide implementation services to the Government of Afghanistan, the donor community and partner agencies in the reconstruction and development of the country. In doing so, UNOPS aims to exceed client expectations in the delivery of quality services throughout the country.
