Construction Engineer at Crestsol Limited

Crestsol Limited is recruiting for an affiliate Infrastructure Construction Company that offers integrated engineering solutions, and related building construction products and services across Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Construction Engineer

Location: Lagos

Details

We are looking to hire Construction Engineers (Professional & Interns) for the provision of Construction Engineering Services covering Engineering Planning, Design, Supervision and Project Management for building infrastructure construction projects across Nigeria and beyond.
As a Construction Engineer, your role includes design specifications and quotations for all civil and structural engineering systems for Infrastructure development projects – Building and Road Construction Services across Nigeria.
You are required to coordinate with the architectural design team to plan, direct, and supervise large construction projects as well as also mentor graduate engineers within your team.
This role requires extremely high level of technical engineering creativity and solutions mindset, attention to detail, project management and relationship management – business development skills.

Job Summary
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

Develop Construction Plans from start to finish – manages the planning and design stage of construction projects by careful and thorough evaluation of the structural fabrications, electrical, and mechanical conditions/requirements of all projects.
Manages designs of all Infrastructure development projects – Building (commercial, industrial, sport, residential) buildings and Road (bridges, tunnels, and underground wastewater plants) Construction Services, as well as budget management, project scheduling, material procurement, and labor planning.
Operates as a construction engineering subject-matter-expert, project manager, and business manager – an excellent creative leader and middleman on construction projects to make sure everything about the project is safe, smooth, and structurally sound from preconception meetings to grand opening.
Effective resource manager that plans and manages personnel flow, contractors’ interface and subcontractors onboarding to support multiple ongoing operations with keen eyes on project cost control, cost accounting, and management of project schedules. He/she must constantly refer to schedules to ensure quality work is done on time. Whenever necessary, he/she must facilitate friendly open discussions to create solutions for all project stakeholders.
Demonstrate strong analytical and leadership effectiveness in coordinating/monitoring multiple constructions/projects (different sites/locations) physically/remotely as well as travel on short notice towards delivering clients/stakeholders expectations across multiple locations/regions/time zones.
Ensures engineers carefully inspect all drawings and designs before they are implemented and complete routine tests to make sure all legal regulations are followed to avoid costly errors that could adversely affect projects financial projections.
Ensures an up-to-date understanding of all legal obligations and contract terms to prevent project delays, support all construction workers, and actively drive projects to completion.
To ensure all project financial projections are accurate and practical in overseeing all the different engineering processes in a construction project that culminates to a successful project handover and grand opening.
Prepares Technical Support Documents – he/she must keep up-to-date logs, estimates, change orders, vendor forms, and surveys with different software – these are fundamental skills to help identify and spot technical problems in the construction process before they come to head.
Ensures seamless communication with team members and management via regular weekly meetings/reports with all parties involved in all various construction projects. These weekly meetings/reports must provide necessary status updates to all project stakeholders, and he/she must respond to questions from contractors, clients, management and all other project stakeholders.
Ensures regular project assessments across all projects to identify better (& different) cost-saving techniques for projects.

Minimum Requirements

M/B. Eng. Degree in related Engineering field;
COREN Registered, Industry Certification, and NSE Membership;
5 years post NYSC hands-on Engineering design experience in building and infrastructure projects (candidate with more years of relevant experience would be considered for senior position);
Ideally the candidate will have a minimum 3 years’ experience in a design consultancy role and/or Construction/MEP contractors;
Proficient use of relevant design/drafting tools is an added advantage;
Good project management and technical skills;
Experience of working in REVIT.
Experience of working on projects in the following sectors is desirable Higher Education, Healthcare, Commercial, Luxurious Residences, Roads, Industrial and Laboratories.
Familiar with local code and authority submission procedures;
Team player and able to work independent with minimal supervision;

Others – Person Specification (Behavioral Attributes):
Be Decisive in Leadership:

Know how to prioritize, set critical path necessary to achieve a grand opening, advocate focus and accountability, and then plan accordingly towards exceeding clients’ expectations.

Be Impactful:

Use clear and frequent communications, drive execution and results.

Safeguard:

Operate ethically with high level of integrity, while prioritizing safety and security in all that you do.

Be The Role Model:

Lead by example, demand and maintain excellence at all times, maintain safety and integrity as top priorities.

Be Client-Focused (Customer-Centric):

Be constantly collaborative, strategic and creative in providing innovative solutions to solve technical engineering challenges while managing a large construction team across multiple locations.

Essential Competencies Expected for all Positions

To perform the job successfully, every person within our organization must be team-oriented, dedicated, and hands-on towards exceeding clients’ expectations at every contact point; and must demonstrate the following competencies.

Personality:

We expect every person within our organization to possess very good entrepreneurial spirit, warmth, dynamic, with high level of integrity, excellent organizational, planning, and reporting skills; he/she must possess strong determination & motivational drive for excellence and can effectively support multiple clients/customers at all times.

Leadership:

We expect every person within our organization to possess excellent leadership, cooperation, supervision and learning skills with strong problem-solving and decision making skills; he/she must possess sound understanding as well as willingness to develop sound knowledge and understanding of the Nigerian Construction industry.

Teamwork:

We expect every person within our organization to contribute extensively to building a positive team culture. Every person within our organization must put success of team above other considerations; he/she must be willing to build high morale and group commitments to goals and objectives, and must support everyone’s efforts to succeed.

Ethics:

We expect every person within our organization to treat all people with great respect and must honour commitments. He/she must inspire the trust of others, must work with integrity and ethics, and must uphold organizational values which include consistency at work, arriving punctually for business meetings and appointments, and ensuring prompt solution delivery.

Professionalism:

We expect every person within our organization to approach clients/customers and colleagues in a tactful manner; we expect him/her to react well under pressure; treat others with respect and consideration regardless of their (social) status or position; he/she must accept responsibilities for own actions all the time.

Relationship:

We expect every person within our organization to develop and maintain a continuous level of engagement with its target audience; every person within our organization must constantly aim to create a partnership between himself/herself (Crestsol’s representative) and its audience rather than consider the relationship merely transactional.
This is because clients that feel we respond well to their needs are more likely to continue using our products and solutions. Additionally, every person within our organization must maintain a constant level of communication with the clients/customers in identifying potential sources of costly problems before they come to head.

Customer Service:

We expect every person within our organization to effectively manage difficult or emotional customer situations, responds promptly to all agreed commitments to the clients/customers. He/she will need to follow through on all our commitments to our clients/customers.

Interpersonal Skills:

We expect every person within our organization to maintain strict confidentiality with qualitative listening skills (i.e. listens to others without interrupting) and keep emotions under control.
He/she must consider and respond appropriately to the emotions and capabilities of different people in different situations; he/she must always respond tactfully and diplomatically; and treats everybody with respect. He/she must possess the ability to work well with various skill levels of clients/customers and other project stakeholders.

Oral Communication:

We expect every person within our organization to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; the individual must possess innate skills to make clear and convincing oral presentations to individuals or groups, facilitates an open exchange of ideas that fosters atmosphere of open communication. He/she must listen effectively and clarifies information as needed, and must respond very well to questions from clients, consultants, media and other project stakeholders.

Written Communication:

We expect every person within our organization to express facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing and organized manner devoid of grammatical & spelling errors; the individual must possess innate skills to read and interpret written information/data, and effectively present numerical data in easy-to-understand format.
He/she must possess the abilities to read and comprehend instructions and correspondences, as well as the ability to write correspondence.
He/she must be socially enabled on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube and WhatsApp.

Aggressively Productive:

We expect every person within our organization to be consistently persuasive and committed to the logical productive completion of all sales-cycles. The individual must be extremely influential among key decision makers and must not accept ‘No’ for an answer.

Strategic Thinking:

We expect every person within our organization to assist management in formulating effective strategies that are consistent with the business objectives of the organization; he/she will help management define strategic objectives, sets priorities and interpret these strategic goals into operational tasks; makes strategic plans with short-term and long-term perspectives while articulating potential threats & opportunities.

Business Tool Proficiency:

We expect every person within our organization to possess excellent use of relevant working applications such as Project Management tools, Microsoft office Suites; OUTLOOK, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, MSWORD, VISIO, etc.

Safety and Security:

We expect every person within our organization to observe all known and unknown safety and security procedure in the course of his/her daily assignments; he/she must report potentially unsafe conditions, and must use organizations’ resources – time, money, equipment, tools and materials properly, appropriately and judiciously.

Salary
Kindly state your salary expectations in your application cover letter.

Application Closing Date
7th June, 2019.

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