Vacancies at SMEC

Key Responsibilities

• To advise the contractor on how to improve current quarrying operations, including the optimisation of drilling and blasting practices to target the production of graded rockfills to specification for a rockfill dam with minimum practical material selection and processing.
  Improvement of Contractor’s QA/QC systems and protocols.
• Adhere to corporate values, policies and procedures
• Preparation of technical and progress reports including assessment of resource availability and material balance for project construction
• Review monthly payment certificates, contract documentation, bills/schedules of quantities and technical specifications and ensure that documentation is correct for monthly or interim payment certificates submitted to the client
• Preparation of site correspondence as well as other documentation required for site administration and/or reporting

Key Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree/Masters from accredited university.
• Substantive experience of dam and underground works grouting and associated QA/QC arrangements is preferred.
• Knowledge of curtain, contact and consolidation grouting operations, equipment and methods
• Technical qualification is preferred with at least 20 years’ practical relevant experience
• Willingness to work with a Chinese contractor in an area of Kenya approx. 2.5 hours’ drive from Nairobi.
• CAD skills, preferably REVIT and knowledge of BIM (experience in BIM will be an advantage)
• Proficient in use of MS Office suite (including MS Project)
• Record keeping
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to make technical decisions which are outcome driven

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Key Responsibilities

• To give advice and guidance to the contractor on how to improve his grouting operations, including ground treatment in mixed biotite and granitic gneiss terrain for waterproofing a major 1500m long CFRD dam, a 250m long concrete spillway weir as well as embankment saddle dams;
• Grouting for underground works (curtain, consolidation and contact grouting) for approx. 1800m of large diameter tunnels and shafts that have substantively been excavated and lined.
• Improvement of Contractor’s QA/QC systems and protocols
• Preparation of technical and progress reports including assessment of resource availability and material balance for project construction
• Improving quality assurance and quality control to achieve earliest practical contract completion to specification.
• Curtain, contact and consolidation grouting at the CFRD plinth and in underground elements of the Works.
• Working with an inexperienced and under -resourced Chinese Contractor
• Working in a relatively remote location with ad hoc specialist technical support