Construction Inspection Engineer Jobs – Bureau Veritas
Job Title: Construction Inspection Engineer
Organisation: Bureau Veritas
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has 78,000 employees located in more than 1,600 offices and laboratories around the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its clients improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Inspection and logging of exploratory borings. Approving drilling activity, directing sampling and interpreting conditions encountered.
- Observation and documentation of construction for underground structures such as driven piles, drilled piles, sheet pile, tieback anchors, tie-rods, wales, slurry trench and slurry wall excavations, earthwork, and ground improvement.
- Inspection, testing, and approval of excavated subgrades, subgrade preparation and mudmat placement, installation of drainage systems, geotextiles and geogrids, and structural fill.
- Inspection and approval of reinforcing arrangements, concrete placement, and sampling by others.
- Inspection of controlled fill, placement, compaction, and protection. May include performing sand cone density QA testing to confirm QC testing by specialty test contractor.
- Inspection and approval of concrete reinforcement installations / arrangement and size, in accordance with drawings.
- Installation of instrumentation in conjunction with MRCE Instrumentation Engineers, and using instrument data in the inspection process.
- Instrument training and use may include Vibrating Wire Piezometers, Casagrande Piezometers, inclinometer casing installations and reading, vibration sensors, crack monitors, assisting with AMTS survey robots and targets, , assembly of down-hole instruments.
- Attending site construction meetings on behalf of Bureau Veritas to discuss construction problems, review specialty needs, coordinate with other service providers, and understand schedules. Communicating with the site project management team.
- Utilize AutoCAD Civil 3D software to prepare or review work product
- Prepare and maintain the Project Quality Plan, Project Quality Control Plans (or ITPs) and other quality procedures.
- Review key project deliverables to confirm compliance with quality requirements.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Graduate with bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent. Post graduate qualification will be an added advantage.
- At least five to eight years of direct experience in quality assurance system activities of which five (5) years must be in managing quality systems relating to EPC oil & gas projects.
- Familiar with subsurface investigations, sampling, and field testing.
- Experience inspecting construction,
- Familiar with documenting instrument installations and taking and interpreting instrument readings.
- Experience performing field testing for Code Compliance.
- Work experience in African countries.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office software.
- Adaptable to cross-cultural work environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Good health and capable of working in a remote project area.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join Bureau Veritas should apply online at the link below.
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