Senior Planning & Control Engineer / Architect

The Merida New Consulate Compound (NCC) includes a new Consulate office building, MCAC, CCAC, SCAC, Utility buildings, Staff, Official, and Visitor Parking, Warehouse, Pool and Cabana. The NCC site is a 7-acre rectangular and generally flat parcel of land within a 60 acre mixed-use master planned community, including retail, office, residential, and recreational space. The site is a brownfield site as it was a former industrial land for steel manufacturing. It is located approximately 5km from the existing U.S. Consulate in Merida.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Functions as the project architect, providing OBO/Merida a full range of critical architectural and construction quality assurance and management and technical oversight of the Merida NCC Project


• Being responsible for performing technical inspections, monitoring the contractor's quality control program, and reviewing project drawings and specifications to ensure compliance


• Support and assist OBO/Merida in ensuring the completion of the project in accordance with contract requirements


• Ensures that the contractor is performing the required contract work in accordance with the design documents


• Review engineering shop drawings and determine if the contractor has complied with the final design parameters


• Observe onsite construction and determine if construction elements are being installed, formed, and executed properly


• Responsible for performing quality assurance tasks, ensuring contractor's work is properly inspected and corrective actions take place, ensuring materials meet contract, reviewing contractor submittals for compliance with contract requirements, and resolving conflicts


• Monitor the construction contractor's quality assurance and safety program


• Monitor construction progress vis-à-vis the project schedule and submit weekly progress reports with recommendations based on the technical review of project documents and field inspections


• Perform technical inspections of the architectural elements of the project


• Prepares construction reports detailing construction progress and identifies any problem with the construction process related to the incumbent's area of expertise. After problems are discovered, evaluate contractor's proposed remedy


• Formulate solutions for the Project Director/Construction Manager


• Work on the construction site will be performed to U.S. standards; the incumbent should have current working knowledge of acceptable products and procedures


• Other duties as assigned by the Project Director