Overview of position
Somalia Urban Resilience Project II (SURP II) is a municipal governance & infrastructure development project financed by the World Bank & its partners, aimed at improving access to urban infrastructure & strengthening municipal governance in Somalia. The government of Somalia, through the Benadir Regional Administration (Mogadishu) representing multiple cities has selected our client to provide the consulting services for the urban transport infrastructure works to be executed by the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of the respective municipalities under the project. The works involve construction of urban roads to bitumen standards, construction of bridges / drainage works & installation of streetlights, by the contractors engaged by the respective PIU. our client assists the PIUs in the contracts management, supervision of works implementation by the contractors as well as in other technical areas related to the project activities. The scope of our clients engagement is to provide technical assistance to the PIUs in the works implementation & contracts managements in the areas of design review, technical supervision, performance monitoring, quality control etc., as well as contributing to PIUs capacity building.
Role objectives
The Surveyor will be assigned to one of the cities & will report to the Resident Engineer. S / he will be responsible for all surveying tasks related to the SURP II works implementation of the assigned city & reporting to the Resident Engineer. The Surveyor?s specific tasks will include but are not limited to:
Checking the accuracy of established control points & measures to ensure acceptable level of accuracy is maintained throughout the project.
Check & verify works undertaken by the contractor to ensure works implementation are as per the design drawings & specifications.
Carry out topographic surveys of roads & generation of digital elevation models, maps & drawings from the survey data as directed by the Resident Engineer.
Carrying out field measurements in support of maintaining works progress records, preparation of work quantities for the bill payments & management of variation claims etc.
Preparation of survey reports & any other relevant documents as may be required / directed by the Resident Engineer.
Generation of outputs on GIS platforms for use by the project team and other stakeholders.
The Surveyor will also be required to interpret any survey data, maps and GIS outputs received from stakeholders.
Ensure the accuracy of the survey equipment through testing & calibration and be the custodian of survey equipment & tools availed to him / her.
Management of all survey records generated by the project with the responsibility for the final hand over to the client.
On the job training of the counterpart staff provided by PIU on engineering surveying tasks.
Project reporting
This role reports to the?Resident Engineer.