Field Engineer

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.

The purpose of the assignment is to provide support to education section and camp coordination team in managing, operationalizing and upgrading the educational facilities in camps, specific responsibilities includes but not limited to, the following: 

• Support the Senior Engineer in preparing detailed and comprehensive maintenance plans for all the existing education facilities, including playgrounds. 

• Perform day-to-day coordination with the contractors and suppliers according to the needs and requirements on site. 

• Draft as-built and general arrangement drawings for the existing KGs and Schools and other facilities in Azraq and Zaatari camps. 

• Provide detailed and accurate Bill of Quantities (BoQ) for the facilities to be maintained or rehabilitated.

• Assist in preparing Long Term Agreements/Request for Proposals for the services required by the Education Section.

• Apply quality control and safety procedures on site for the maintenance and rehabilitation works that will be taking place by supervising contractor(s)’ performance and reporting any discrepancies of quality and quantities of work to be completed. 

• Alert the Senior Engineer of potential challenges in advance to mitigate delay-related risks. 

• Supervise and monitor performance of contractor(s) on site.

• Submit weekly progress reports to education Senior Engineer. 

• Support in the preparation process of materials on site data base and provide daily inputs on labors productivity and percentage of progress in maintenance and upgrade of  educational facilities in camps. 

• Responsible for the preparation and verification of a database for the available materials shipped to the project, schedules of labor force, and monitoring of quality of such during the progress of works.

• Support with all opther tasks as requested by Senior Engineer.

Drive with Energy

• Initiative

• Ability to learn

Focus and Execute

• Ability to analyse

• Organising and Quality Orientation

Impact and Energize

• Communication skill

• Teamwork Skills

Guide with Passion

• Motivation and Inspiration

• BA in Civil/ Architectural engineering or any other related to Engineering studies.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience of construction works 

• One year of experience in education and/or humanitarian sector. 

• Fluency in both English and Arabic is required.

Contract type: Local ICA

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.