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Project Overview
The Market Driven Irrigated Horticulture Project (MDIH) aims to establish a sustainable and inclusive model of irrigation, water resources, and land management in Lesotho.
About the Role:
The Chief Construction Manager shall report to the Team Leader and provide strategic direction and overall management to the Consultant team overseeing all construction matters for the Market Driven Irrigated Horticulture Project (MDIH)), with the overall responsibility of ensuring that the works are executed in compliance with Tender Documents.
The Chief Construction Manager shall also furnish advisory services to MCA-Lesotho II regarding its construction-phase obligations. The Chief Construction Manager shall be based in Maseru part-time for the base period and full-time during the option period.
Key Requirements:
Qualifications:
- University degree in engineering, construction management, Project management, or a related field.
- Qualified Chartered/Registered Professional Engineer or approved equivalent in their country of origin.
- Fluent in the English language (B2 level or higher of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR, Table 1).
General Professional Experience:
- 20 or more years of demonstrable experience and 15 years of relevant international construction experience in water resources/irrigation sector projects of similar scope, size, and complexity.
- Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa would be an added advantage.
Specific Professional Experience:
- Minimum of 10 or more years of experience managing construction teams, or at least one project with a value of over 50 million USD and containing multiple project components.
- Demonstrated experience and skills on a minimum of two projects in construction planning, procurement, construction management/supervision, project controls, contract management, quality management, and monitoring and reporting.
- Specific experience in the delivery of at least one design-build project using the FIDIC Yellow Book Contract.
- Prior experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa is preferred.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- You will have an agile and “Can Do” mindset.
- Ambitions self-starter with high self-standards.
- Motivated to be part of a Company with a real purpose, improving the quality of people’s lives and communities.