Design Review Engineer

The Design Review Engineer is responsible for ensuring the safety and functionality of UNOPS infrastructure by evaluating and reviewing medium and high-risk infrastructure works, providing technical guidance, and supporting knowledge-sharing and risk management in infrastructure design. The role involves liaising with design teams and third-party reviewers to resolve technical issues and promote consistent design standards.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and review medium and high-risk infrastructure works and verify reviews of low risk works
• Engage with design teams and IPMG design review technical retainers to identify and resolve technical design issues
• Provide technical guidance on design aspects of infrastructure works
• Cultivate informed risk management in infrastructure design
• Liaise with third-party reviewers to review and issue reports for the designs of medium and high-risk works and verify the process of review of low-risk projects
• Engage regularly with infrastructure project teams to evaluate and support technical design development and design review processes
• Communicate and coordinate with field office design teams to resolve technical issues or deviations from codes
• Support development of local design management activities and guide project teams on control/assurance procedures
• Act as the Focal Point for a Region and engage with country offices/projects as needed
• Assist in organizing and summarizing technical data from Design Review activities and support development of monthly reports for senior management
• Apply professional judgment in the technical application of relevant engineering codes and standards and evaluation of design packages
• Provide independent technical evaluation and recommendations free of conflicts of interest
• Monitor task completion, meet quality expectations and deadlines, and complete progress reports
• Contribute to the team's mandate as a Center of Excellence and Strategic Partner by engaging in knowledge-sharing, developing guidance material, and cultivating a culture of informed risk management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil Engineering or related fields with 7 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 5 years of relevant experience is required
• A globally or nationally recognized professional certificate or licensure in engineering (CEng, PE, P.Eng, or equivalent) is considered an asset
• Relevant experience is work in infrastructure design development or design review or related areas
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in technical infrastructure engineering/design production with focus on stakeholder coordination and effective resolution of technical issues in development context is considered an asset
• Experience in buildings and other vertical infrastructure, transport infrastructure (bridges, roads, ports and airports), utilities infrastructure (water/wastewater treatment and delivery systems, green power technologies, irrigation, solid waste management) is highly desired
• Experience in infrastructure in a developing country context is considered an asset
• Experience performing engineering design software (e.g Bentley, ETABS, SAP2000 or similar) and preparing/editing AutoCAD design files is an asset
• Fluent English is required
• Fluent Spanish is desirable
• Fluent Portuguese is desirable
• Fluent Arabic is desirable
• Fluent Ukrainian is desirable
• Fluent Russian is desirable

Skills

• Infrastructure Design Review
• Technical Infrastructure Engineering
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Engineering Design Software
• AutoCAD
• Bentley
• ETABS
• SAP2000
• Infrastructure Risk Management
• Building Infrastructure Design
• Transport Infrastructure Design
• Utilities Infrastructure Design
• Engineering Licensure
• Design Standards Compliance
• Technical Issue Resolution
• Infrastructure Development Context

Languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian