Інженер/ка-будівельник/ця / Civil Engineer – Kharkiv

Background information

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects around the world. Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement, and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors, and United Nations organisations. With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical, and management knowledge they need, where they need it. By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.

Local Context: With presence and experience in Ukraine since 2016, UNOPS has provided, on behalf of the Government and people of Ukraine, project management and procurement services to support the national reform and sustainable development agenda, take environmental and climate action, strengthen the rule of law, improve energy and healthcare solutions, as well as address economic and governance institutional weaknesses.

The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to a severe and highly complex humanitarian emergency with a global impact not witnessed in Europe for over 70 years. The international response to the Ukraine crisis has been significant, with exceptional support being provided by many donor countries and organizations. UNOPS, with its ability to add considerable value in its core mandated areas of infrastructure, procurement, and project management services, is part of the response to the ongoing emergency and is augmenting its capacity to be able to provide robust and timely support over the long term, through the recovery and eventual reconstruction phases. Recognising the enormity and complexity of the challenges ahead, UNOPS is establishing a dedicated Ukraine Country Office (based in Kyiv), from where UNOPS’ operations will, with the support of the UNOPS ECR Regional Office (based in Geneva) and UNOPS’ HQ (Copenhagen), be planned, resourced, implemented, managed and controlled in the months and years ahead.

UNOPS Ukraine Country Office is looking for Civil Engineer positions to provide required services ensuring smooth implementation of the engineering works within ongoing and developing infrastructure activities in Kharkiv.

She/he is required to follow up on Work Plans and activities of contractors and report accordingly to the Lead Civil Engineer as a direct supervisor or designated alternate. The role will be based in Kharkiv with frequent field travels to different regions of Ukraine on an as needed basis.

The Civil Engineer provides technical assistance and expertise with reference to the construction works as well as field coordination, ensuring high quality and consistency of work, for the construction works. The Civil Engineer promotes a collaborative, client focused, quality and results-oriented approach in the Project Team.

Functional responsivities 

Under the direct supervision of the Lead Civil Engineer the Civil Engineer will undertake following tasks/duties in geographically determined area of responsibility:

1. Construction works supervision
2. Quality Assurance
3. Monitoring and progress controls

Construction works supervision:

• Provide expert opinion/advice to the Project Managers and the Lead Civil Engineer on all engineering issues for assigned works.
• Conduct needs assessment of the building and structures that are to be reconstructed and provide comprehensive needs assessment reports.
• Contribute to development, implementation, monitoring and updating of the Project plans and strategies in order to ensure delivery according to the scope budget and time.
• Provide regular reports to the Project Managers and the Lead Civil Engineer and provide inputs for the periodic and final Reports to inform donors and the key stakeholders on Project progress.
• Manage contractors and contract execution to ensure delivery according to the scope, budget and time and in compliance with the technical documentation.
• Formulate and/or check and revise Terms of Reference, scope of works and all technical documents/designs in line with national legal framework and UNOPS norms and standards.
• Ensure that documentation on site are kept according to the valid law for planning and construction (daily logs, quantity books, approvals, act of appointments, tests, attest documentation).
• Maintain the cooperation with the construction supervisors, contractors, designers and local authorities.
• Ensure the Construction Supervisor provides reports on the activities specified within the valid law for planning and construction. 
• Ensure respect of Health and Safety procedures on the site and notify the Supervisor of any irregularities immediately after.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Civil Engineer in the agreed timeframe.

Quality Assurance:

• Supervise the quality of the construction materials and collected attest documentation.
• Verify and contribute to technical specifications of products, apparatus, services and associated quality material
• Ensure the contractor provides method statement for works prior commencement and perform the quality check of the presented document.
• During the Defect Notification Period (DNP), intervene as required and liaise with the contractor to fix in a timely manner issues that arise and covered by the defect notification period.

Monitoring and progress controls:

• Conduct needs assessment of the building and structures that are to be reconstructed and provide comprehensive needs assessment reports.
• Review and contribute to Contractor’s Quality Health and Safety, Social and Environment plans and ensure its compliance.
• Ensure on site works are provided in accordance to all Health and Safety, Social and Environmental requirements, norms, national and international best practices 
• Hold sites coordination meetings with the contractors, technical supervisors and other stakeholders as necessary and provide minutes of meeting for construction-related meetings.
• Provide Site Visit Reports on Project related activities, specifying work progress and arising issues
• Contribute to development, implementation, monitoring and updating of the Project plans and strategies in order to ensure delivery according to the scope budget and time.
• Provide UNOPS with photographic (before, ongoing, after) and reports including lesson learned.

Education/Experience/Language requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor degree  in Civil Engineering is required

Experience:

• Minimum two years of relevant professional civil engineering experience is required.
• Experience in civil works design and construction, supervision and/or implementation of buildings construction and reconstruction for medium to large scale construction projects is required.
• Experience in working with the EU and/or a UN agency would be a strong asset.

Certifications:

• Certification/registration for construction supervision and quality assurance from the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing Ukraine is desirable.
• Certified/Registered for consultant engineer would be an asset.
• Project Management certification (for example PRINCE2® Foundation) would be an asset.
• Driving license (B category) is required.

Language requirements:

• Fluency in Ukrainian is required.
• Working knowledge of English is advantage.

Functional competencies:

• Ability to travel independently.
• Strong computer skills and advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required
• Knowledge of a CAD software is required
• Familiarity with FIDIC Contracts is desirable.

Contract type, level and duration: 

Contract type: ICA
Contract level: Local ICA Specialist
Contract duration: Ongoing ICA – ‘Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance

For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:
https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx 

To apply for the position please follow the link.