Design Review Engineer - Hydraulic Works and Irrigation Structures

Provide independent technical review and assurance of CRLP Group 2B site-specific infrastructure designs, ensuring compliance with approved model designs, relevant codes, standards and IPMG requirements. Review engineering calculations, drawings, specifications and BOQs, identify safety and compliance issues, and provide clear recommendations to support safe, practical and context-appropriate infrastructure delivery.

Responsibilities

• Review the task assignment and confirm availability, competence and independence before starting work.
• Commit to the timeline for the review defined and agreed with IPMG focal point.
• Complete the assignment-specific conflict-of-interest declaration.
• Decline the assignment where the reviewer prepared, materially supported, supervised or directed the design, or where another actual or perceived conflict exists.
• Identify immediately where the design is outside the reviewer's technical category, authority limits or available time.
• Review design drawings, technical specifications, and BOQs in terms of accuracy and suitability to overall design requirements, identifying aspects where designs do not comply with minimum codes and standards and IPMG policies, and providing practical guidance for design improvement.
• Review the design brief, basis of design and applicable codes and standards.
• Check the completeness and reliability of site information, including topographic, geotechnical, hydrological, hydraulic, traffic, seismic and environmental inputs as relevant.
• Confirm that the approved model design is applicable to the site and that all adaptations remain within the approved limits.
• Review calculations, assumptions, load cases, dimensions and material parameters applying professional judgment in the application of relevant codes, standards, and IPMG policies.
• Check consistency between calculations, drawings, specifications, Bill of Quantities and supporting reports.
• Review constructability, maintenance implications and suitability for local materials, skills and operating conditions.
• Identify safety-critical omissions, inappropriate assumptions, unresolved interfaces and departures from the approved model design.
• Recommend additional site investigations, specialist input or escalation to the normal IPMG review route where necessary.
• Share the review comments with the designated IPMG focal point through official email communication.
• Record clear, specific and actionable review comments using the approved UNOPS format.
• Distinguish between safety-critical, compliance, coordination and advisory comments.
• Review the designer's responses and revised documents until comments are satisfactorily closed or escalated.
• Complete and sign the applicable model-design checklist and the review report.
• Sign the project review Sign-off certificate provided by IPMG.
• Recommend one of the following outcomes: accepted; revise and resubmit; or outside the approved route and to be escalated.
• Coordinate with IPMG focal point that will organize any necessary engagement with the project teams.
• Attend technical meetings where necessary to explain comments and resolve questions.
• Undertake site visits where critical assumptions cannot be confirmed from submitted documents, subject to security and travel approval.
• Prepare a concise site-verification note where a visit is undertaken and share it with the designated IPMG focal point.
• Provide limited technical guidance to help the designer understand review comments, without taking over design development.
• Maintain complete, orderly and traceable review records.
• Use the official project and IPMG systems and templates specified for the assignment.
• Protect confidential project, partner and design information.
• Return all required records and confirm assignment completion before payment approval.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in the relevant engineering discipline with at least four years of relevant professional experience or a master's degree in the relevant engineering discipline with at least two years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional registration or recognised professional membership is desirable where an appropriate system exists.
• At least three years of direct design experience relevant to the technical category.
• Independent design-review experience may count towards overall relevant professional experience but does not replace this direct-design requirement.
• Demonstrated responsibility for engineering calculations, design decisions or independent technical reviews.
• Evidence of at least three comparable assignments (design or design review), including one within the last three years.
• Experience in Afghanistan or neighbouring countries with similar geographic, geological, seismic, climatic, environmental and construction-industry conditions.
• Experience with UNOPS, another United Nations entity, an international NGO or an international development programme is desirable.
• Fluent proficiency in English.

Skills

• Hydraulic Works Design
• Irrigation Structures Design
• Engineering Calculations
• Design Review
• Technical Compliance Management
• Infrastructure Design Assurance
• Safety Assessment
• Construction Industry Knowledge
• Seismic Design Considerations
• Environmental Conditions Assessment
• Geological Conditions Assessment
• UNOPS Procedures
• International Development Programmes
• Technical Drawing Review
• Bill of Quantities Analysis
• Professional Engineering Registration

Languages

English