Senior Civil & Facilities Engineer Career Opportunities: Tullow Uganda Operations Pty

Job Title: Senior Civil & Facilities Engineer

Department: Engineering
Business Unit: Uganda

Location: Albertine Oil Belt and Kampala
Reports To: Head of Engineering

Job Purpose: To support the Head of Engineering in planning and execution of all Civil Works & facilities programs by offering technical planning support and project managing on all agreed plans.

Responsibilities / Key Objectives:

• Overall accountability for managing the execution of Civil Works & other facilities projects.
• Steer overall detailed planning & execution of Civil Works projects.
• Support sourcing and evaluation of Civil Works contractors to ensure value for money in the contacting and procurement process.
• Evaluate plans; participate in drawing up scopes of work, bills of quantity and technical specifications for planned activities.
• Provide decision support information to project managers with respect to Civil Works requirements for various projects.
• Agree plans with consulting engineers.
• Supervise the Field Civil Engineer(s) to ensure works are executed according to plan.
• Provide overall technical support for civil projects by evaluating designs and calculations.

Education and Experience:

• Bsc. Degree in civil engineering, Postgraduate qualifications in project management.
• At least 5 years experience in Managing Civil Engineering works.
  
• Specific experience in general roads and facilities construction is required.
• Fluids storage and pipeline constructions experience is desirable.
• Experience in managing multiple projects in a busy operation is required.

Skills:

• Sound Civil Engineering & mechanical technical skills.
• Environment, Health and Safety awareness.
• Ability to maintain an overview of entire projects while continuing to attend to detailed technicalities.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Negotiating skills.
• Proven Management ability and supervisory skills.
• Proven project management & reporting skills.

Basic Occupational Competence

• Fully conversant with MS Office, AutoCAD

Language skills

• English as working language
• Swahili will be viewed as beneficial

Other

• The ability to work and operate in remote locations.
  
• The position will be Kampala based initially with the Lake Albert region seen as developing into the main area of operation.
• The ability to remain flexible and travel to and from site locations to meet operational requirements as required.
• Recognised driving licence.

Business Behaviours:

• Integrity
• Commitment
• Team Player

Address to:

The HR Manager
Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Limited
Plot 15 Yusuf Lule Road
P.O. Box 16644 Kampala

Label: Application for the particular position.

Preferably e-mail application to hruganda @ tullowoil.com

Deadline Friday 27th November 2009

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