Construction Surveyor

Overview of position

• In late 2019 parts of Somalia experienced some of the worst flooding in the country’s recent history resulting in several deaths & significant damage to infrastructure, crops, property & livestock. Further to this flood event, a joint assessment undertaken by the World Bank & the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) assessed the losses & damage caused by the floods & developed a strategy for immediate recovery & longer term resilience building. As a result, Somalia Crisis Recovery Project (SCRP) financed by the World Bank through the Federal Ministry of Finance (MoF) was formulated. The project aimed at supporting the recovery of livelihoods & infrastructure in flood & drought affected areas & strengthening the capacity for disaster preparedness nationwide. The recovery interventions focus is on 3 flood affected states (Hirshabelle, South West State & Jubaland), while the longer term interventions focus on a broader national coverage, enabling government capacity strengthening in disaster risk management.
• The Project Implementation Unit (PIU) established within the MoF is managing the project implementation with our client providing technical support in project activities design, implementation, monitoring & reporting. Their input includes the development of designs for the rehabilitation of flood damaged roads, buildings & other infrastructure. As part of their technical advisory team, the Chief Surveyor is to be engaged to undertake the field materials investigation activities & pavement designs & report preparation.

Role objectives

The Surveyor will be assigned to one of the sites (Hirshabelle, South West State or Jubaland) & will report to the Resident Engineer. S / He will be responsible for all surveying tasks related to the SCRP works implementation of the assigned city & reporting to the Resident Engineer. The Surveyor’s specific tasks will include:

• 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 & other stakeholders.

• The Surveyor will also be required to interpret any survey data, maps & GIS outputs received from stakeholders.

• Ensure the accuracy of the survey equipment through testing & calibration & 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

The Surveyor will report to the Resident Engineer.