Quality Assurance Engineer

The Building Alliance for Local Advancement, Development, and Investment (BALADI) program is a five-year USAID funded program that supports locally-generated socio-economic development projects throughout Lebanon. The BALADI program seeks to encourage service delivery by local governments through municipal projects that respond to citizens’ needs. It assists municipalities and communities that have collaborated together to prepare and well plan for livelihood improvement projects. In 2015, 22 new municipal projects were awarded USAID-BALADI funds to be implemented by René Moawad Foundation (RMF), among which are constructions and solar energy related projects. Position Summary The Quality Assurance Engineer will be technically supporting RMF/BALADI team to ensure the implementation of the Quality assurance (QA) process for all USAID/Baladi Projects. He/she will also play an advisory role to BALADI’s stakeholders in ensuring sustainability of these initiatives. Specific Duties and Responsibilities Perform all daily inspections and tests of the scope and character necessary to achieve the quality of construction required in the drawings and specifications for all works under the contract performed ON or OFF site. Carry out inspection and checking for all quality related procedures in the site and ensures activity at the site are as per QA/QC RMF and USAID Protocol. Coordinate with RMF site Engineer for inspection and meeting about quality problems including the closure of Non-Compliance Report. Control, and monitor all activities related to Quality Management. Handle QA/QC documents of the projects including certificates, calibration, test results, inspection requests, non-compliance reports and site instruction/observations, permanent materials delivered and other QA/QC documents. Responsible for the closure of Non-conformance, NCR and Site Instruction, SI. Responsible for the quality and workmanship of every activity, thorough knowledge of all phases of engineering construction relating to Civil, Architectural and Structural discipline interfacing the multidisciplinary operations. Inspects and documents acceptance of construction activities and installations Carry out regular Internal Audits as required. Follow up on Corrective Actions needed Conduct regular Site inspection to check if the works on site are moving as per drawing, as per material approved, as per method statement and as per quality control procedure. Prepare QA/QC weekly report stating all activities performed in additional to critical issues noticed including all relevant documents. Supports construction civil activities relating to construction supervision, field engineering and subcontracts. Interprets design drawings and specifications. Qualifications and Skills Required: Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or direct relevance in Quality Assurance Engineering 3+ years professional experience in Construction Quality Control and/or Field Engineering 3+ years professional experience in performing inspections in the civil discipline on construction projects Qualified in language and writing skills and ability to produce high quality professional reports, and technical summaries Qualified presentation skills and ability to communicate to large audiences. Qualified people skills with ability to communicate effectively in person, verbally and in writing. Strong communication & leadership skills and the ability to organize and conduct meetings & workshops. Ability to work in the office and travel on-location. Mastery of computerized tools, specifically with Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) Fluent in English and Arabic.  REPORTS TO: Deputy Program Director/Senior Technical Manager