Design Review Engineer

• The Design Reviewer Engineer will play a support role in assuring the safety and quality of designs for UNOPS infrastructure. Applying his/her technical expertise and professional experience, directed by the Design Review Manager, the Engineer will liaise with third-party reviewers to review and issue reports for the designs of medium and high-risk works and verify the process of review of low-risk projects.

• The incumbent will regularly engage with infrastructure project teams to evaluate and support technical design development and design review processes with field office project teams, third-party design reviewers, and peer reviewers of design packages.

• The Design Review Engineer will regularly communicate and coordinate with field office design teams to successfully resolve technical issues or designed elements that deviate from codes.

• The Design Review Engineer will assist the team in organizing and summarizing technical data from Design Review activities and support the development of monthly reports for senior management.

• To ensure the safety and functionality of UNOPS infrastructure while recognizing the circumstances and constraints of the UNOPS operational context, the Design Review Engineer will be required to apply professional judgment in the technical application of relevant engineering codes and standards and the evaluation of design packages.

• In the performance of his/her services, the Design Review Engineer will provide independent technical evaluation and recommendations, free of conflicts of interests, and be able to maintain the integrity of the technical opinion against project pressures.

• Ongoing assessment of task completion that meets quality expectations

• Successfully meeting deadlines

• Completing progress reports as required

• An Advanced University degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering (or relevant field) is required.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering (or relevant field) with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a Master’s degree (total 7 years of experience).
• Professional certification/licensure in engineering (CEng, PE, P.Eng, or equivalent) is considered an asset.

Required experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure design development or design review is required.

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in technical infrastructure engineering/design production with focus on stakeholder coordination and effective resolution of technical issues in development context is considered an asset.
• Experience in buildings and other vertical infrastructure, transport infrastructure (bridges, roads, ports and airports), utilities infrastructure (water/wastewater treatment and delivery systems, green power technologies, irrigation, solid waste management) is highly desired.
• Experience in infrastructure in a developing country context is considered an asset.
• Experience performing engineering design software (e.g Bentley, ETABS, SAP2000 or similar) and preparing/editing AutoCAD design files is an asset.

• Fluency in English required.

• Working Knowledge of French and Spanish is highly desirable.