Job Summary:
The Provincial Civil /Water Supply Engineer is responsible for the sustainable management of land and water resources within a watershed area. Their work focuses on preventing soil erosion, improving water retention, and promoting conservation practices through the design and implementation of structures like check dams, contour bunds, and rainwater harvesting systems. They also analyze hydrological data and engage local communities to ensure long-term sustainability of watershed interventions.
In contrast, a Water Engineer focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Their role includes developing water distribution systems, irrigation networks, and wastewater treatment facilities, ensuring the delivery of safe and reliable water to communities. They are also involved in water quality monitoring, hydraulic modeling, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards. Both roles play a critical part in ensuring water resource sustainability, but while watershed engineers focus more on natural resource conservation, water engineers emphasize infrastructure and service delivery.
Job Responsibilities
- Support detailed designs, calculations, specifications, bills of quantities and drawings for district engineers and for contract work packages of water supply projects.
- Ensuring adequate technical oversight, including assessing the impact of engineering interventions on habitats, is provided in site selection, survey, and feasibility of the proposed sub projects before finalization of the proposals.
- Carry out technical and feasibility studies and draw up blueprints that satisfy technical specifications with donor requirements.
- Support district engineers for Preparation of summary documents including (Survey, GIS Map, and design of sub projects etc.)
- Provide advice and resolve creatively any emerging problems/deficiency that happen during project implementation at a provincial or district level.
- Oversee and mentor technical staff and liaise technically with a variety of stakeholders at provincial level.
- Providing technical assistance to district engineers, contractors, and other technical staff from each stage of subproject during its implementation period. This includes support and oversight into procurement and financial issues.
- Assists water service providers to develop business continuity plans and build rapid disaster response capacity, including budgets, water safety plans, contingency plans, and personnel to manage proactively and respond to acute shocks and restore water services when strikes.
- Ensuring that the site plan, section, details, and all required maps are completed and prepared as per site condition. In this process, impact assessment of the project element on human and eco system to be considered.
- Contributes to project learning, working with Regional Teams to ensure that gaps in the evidence base are identified and that project learning and results are captured and shared with the broader project team and other stakeholders.
- Collaborates with the Gender Advisor to ensure that gender is meaningfully mainstreamed throughout water services activities.
- Timely monitoring must be done with proper reporting and recommendations.
- Check construction materials in the field before the implementation of the project.
- Reporting the project progress which is under construction to Line Manager and Project coordinator.
- Perform any other duties as required by the line manager.
- Any other task assigned by line manager from time to time.
