Engineer (P-3) - Engineering and Facility Management

About the role

The United Nations Support Office in Haiti (UNSOH) is recruiting an Engineer (P-3) in its Engineering and Facility Management Section, based in Port-au-Prince. The post reports to the Chief of the Engineering and Facilities Management Section (P-5) or a designated officer. UNSOH supports the Gang Suppression Force, BINUH, the Haitian National Police and the Haitian Armed Forces in joint operations, and provides technical assistance to the OAS.

Key responsibilities

• Apply engineering calculations and practices to design, construction or repair of buildings, roads, bridges, airfields, helipads, railways, docks, waste disposal, flood control, water treatment, power systems, environmental control, field defenses, blast and ballistic protection, perimeter protection, access control, facility hardening and mine detection and clearance.
• Establish and manage UN engineering records systems (e.g. Umoja Real Estate accounting) and solicitations, shopping carts and other procurement processes.
• Handle requisitioning, asset management and property management rules.
• Evaluate engineering solicitations, including physical security works, and plan and design specifications for engineering and physical security infrastructure projects.
• Develop and review physical security engineering solutions with security stakeholders, liaise with other engineers and mission specialists, and produce cost data and estimates.
• Analyze project proposals for technical feasibility and resource constraints.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in engineering, architecture or a related field; a first-level degree plus two years of qualifying experience may be accepted.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience managing civil engineering works, especially human habitation, and multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Experience in planning, designing or implementing physical security engineering solutions for buildings or field infrastructure, and in blast mitigation, ballistic protection, perimeter protection, access control and facility hardening.
• Experience providing civil engineering solutions for field mission infrastructure and managing engineering administration (budgeting, requisitioning, contract and records management).
• English at UN Level II reading, writing and speaking; French or Spanish at UN Level I is desirable.
• Roster-only recruitment: only applicants on pre-approved rosters with similar functions at the same level are eligible.

Required skills

• Desirable: certification in a project/programme management methodology (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2).
• Desirable: experience supervising professional teams, contractors and enablers, and using CAD or Revit for design and construction documentation.