Lead Civil Engineer

The priorities of this role include:

 Reports and is responsible to the Technical Director/ Chief Engineer technically,

strategically, and tactically for the development and performance of the civil teams

throughout FAEC;

 Reports to the designated Project Manager for all day-to-day project issues in

respect of the performance of the civil teams;

 Leads the civil engineering teams in the preparation of overall concept, detailed

design and working drawings as necessary for the highways, land grading, potable

water supply, storm water drainage, foul sewer drainage, irrigation networks, pump

stations and rising mains, and structure layouts as necessary for all infrastructure

development. The structural aspects of bridges and other structures are to be

undertaken by the structural teams and/or specialist sub-consultants;

 Leads, directs, and checks the civil engineering teams in the preparation of the civil

design, grading, highway alignment and pipeline models, using industry standard

software and ensures that the models, load configurations, connection and joint

details are appropriate and correct;

 Leads the coordination and liaison of the civil teams with all other technical

disciplines; eg architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation

telecom, landscaping, quantity surveying, etc to ensure that the civil design is

optimised to accommodate all the infrastructure utilities and there are no clashes

between the highways, pipelines, structures, and the utilities;

 Responsible for arranging and managing the civil engineering staffing resources,

and training where necessary and appropriate, to satisfactorily deliver the civil

engineering solutions;

 Leads and promotes the continuous improvement of the FAEC Quality Management

System in respect of all civil engineering work;

 Organises the preparation of civil engineering presentations internally and externally

as required to develop the work stream for FAEC;

 Determines whether Client instructions or requests comply technically with the scope

of services utilising all relevant information and documentation;

 Ensures requirements of the Client’s project management representatives are

adhered to in respect of all technical and contractual aspects including comments

and ensures speedy and satisfactory closure by the civil engineering team;

 Provides necessary documentation to enable the Operations/ Commercial Manager

and Project Manager to discuss any issues with the Client arising from civil

engineering disputes where necessary;

 Ensures all civil engineering staff satisfactorily and correctly record all time inputs in

the appropriate job codes for time capture for budget and commercial monitoring

purposes;

 Assists the Project Manager and Operations/ Commercial Manager in the

preparation of Change Notices on the design scope of work where appropriate and

necessary;

 Monitors performance of individual design packages and advises the Project

Manager and Operations/ Commercial Manager of the necessary actions to ensure

that they meet or exceed the financial targets for the packages;

 Assists the Project Manager and Operations/ Commercial Manager with debts and

major claims for extra fees;

 Deal with any other duties that may be reasonably assigned from time to time by the

Technical Director/ Chief Engineer, Operations/ Commercial Manager and Project

Manager.