Construction Supervision Manager

Background: The position is for an international development project working to deliver social infrastructure across Pakistan.

Position Summary: This position is responsible for managing the District Senior Site Engineers. At the district level the Engineering team will be collating information in a specified report format which will be reported up to the Construction Supervision Manager who will in turn report this to the central project management unit (CPMU) infrastructure team; progress will be managed through a traffic light system. In addition to progress monitoring the District team will also technically manage the process for variation orders in the contract but this will be reported centrally for financial approval. This position shall monitor and verify the works of the senior site engineers, providing technical assistance and other capacity building interventions, reduce capacity gaps by interfacing with Parent Teacher Council/ School Council, Community Committee for School Infrastructure (PTC/SCs, CCSIs), Contractors and Provincial District colleagues.  In addition this position will manage the resources of engineering staff at district level and distribute as necessary for the programme needs.

Location: Lahore/ Peshawar, Pakistan

Reporting and Supervision: The Construction Supervision Manager reports to the Chief Engineer/ Provincial Director.

Specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Establish good interpersonal relationships within the provincial and school support teams. Proactively build effective working relationships with Provincial Education Officers, PTC/SC Members, CCSI members and Contractors
• Create a win-win environment by gaining agreement from partners and / or Customers before taking partnership-oriented actions.
• Using Capacity Assessment tools identify project related Infrastructure Engineering capacity of target Customers: PTC/SCs, CCSIs, Contractors, School Support Team Colleagues, and Self-Development.
• Manages the senior site engineers on district level, allocates human resources between the districts if necessary
• Providing advice and technical support on all construction related procurement; 
• Oversee school senior site engineers to ensure work is conducted and completed to programme standards; 
• Regular inspections of construction work. Working across multiple sites;
• Participate in the organization and delivery of Introduction Cluster Training for PTC/SCs, DEOs and CCSIs.
• Deliver project Engineering technical assistance and capacity building interventions to all Customer segments.
• Provide accurate and timely activity based reporting as per project SOPs: weekly, monthly, quarterly etc.
• Provide informative, timely and effectively presented written reports/numerical data as required.
• Collect weekly reports of senior site engineers
• Maintains the provincial project tracker
• Responsible for filing all project related documents

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 15 years of experience in site management at various management levels
• Previous work in managing the building of social infrastructure, such as schools, sanitation facilities, community centers, etc.
• Experience of leading teams of over 100 staff in various locations
• Understanding of local community and related cultural sensitivities
• Understanding and experience of implementing procedures and ensuring teams are compliant with these procedures
• A relevant BSc in Engineering, preferably a MSc/MBA including modules in construction management;
• Registration with PEC
• Written and spoken English as well as local language(s)
• IT Literacy: able to use M’soft Word, Powerpoint and Excel at an intermediate level plus knowledge of Smartphone / tablet applications.

Due to the urgency of these positions applications will be reviewed as and when they are received. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted