WASH Site Engineer, Hargeisa Somaliland
Organisation Overview
Pharo Foundation (“the Foundation”) is a mission-driven, impact-oriented organisation that designs, funds and operates economic development programmes toward a vibrant, productive, and self-reliant Africa. Over the next decade, our goal is to create maximum impact towards three critical missions:
- Empowering the next generation: Our education mission is to ensure that all students have an opportunity to access a high-quality, affordable education, and become productive citizens of a rapidly changing world.
- Eliminating barriers to employment and productivity: Our productivity mission is to identify and eliminate health, financial, and structural barriers to employment and productivity for working people.
- Solving water scarcity: Our water mission is to ensure that people and communities across Africa have access to a safe and affordable source of water.
We are a diverse, multicultural, and passionate organisation, with over 450 employees in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Somaliland. Our headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, and we have a liaison office in London, UK, which is home to our parent organisation, Pharo Management
Job Title: WASH Site Engineer
Reports To: Head of Water Development
Functional Relationships: Country Director (Somaliland) & WASH Team.
Job Location: Various (Field based)
Contract/Duration: Project Based
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Supervise the earth dam rehabilitation works including the excavation of the dam and construction of other structures.
- Supervise the construction staff and monitor all construction activities.
- Manage all site activities of the earth dam according to the activity stages.
- Check workability of the concrete, seaming quality and material quality.
- Manage the construction of the project to ensure commissioning within the stipulated period and within stipulated budget.
- Coordinate with different levels of stakeholders: community, Rural Municipalities/ Municipalities, and District Coordination Committee.
- Monitor compliance with occupational health standards by organising materials, ensuring sites are safe, clean, and using personal protection equipment.
- Provide technical support to the Foreman/ subcontractors for site verification.
- Closely monitor, observe, as well as supervise the construction of civil works, excavations of the main dam, and construction of silt traps.
- Continuously monitor, observe, as well as supervise the installation of the geo-membrane lining system on the earth dam.
- Constantly monitor and assure the quality and workmanship of all construction works at the site and keep proper records of all quality assurance-related documentation.
- Checking technical designs and drawings to ensure compliance.
- Supervise contracted staff, provide technical advice, and solve problems onsite.
- Prepare monthly progress report of fieldwork (main dam’s excavation, silt trap construction and geo-membrane installation).
- Report instantly any issues (technical, social etc.) on the earth dam site and facilitate to resolve them.
- Submit progress report and measure work completed in percentages to ensure the flow up of the work progress and work schedule.
- Evaluate and resolve any discrepancies and problems arising during construction, which may affect the quality and performance of the work.
- Conduct regular inspections, assess the work performance done by subcontractors, and report any findings to the Head of Water Development
- Any other duty assigned by the Head of Water Development