Position Title: Dam Design Specialist (International Expert)
Key Qualifications/Requirements: He/ She should have a degree in Civil Engineering with post-graduation in structural/water resources engineering and have at least 15 years of experience in planning, designs as well as detailed engineering of dams and its appurtenances. He/ She should have worked in at least 5 large dam projects.
Job Descriptions
- Serve as the Nodal Expert for all design review matters after DTL and TL.
- Review all submitted PSTs, focusing on design aspects and basic layout plans.
- Assess and finalize the preliminary design of rehabilitation works for PSTs before submission to the World Bank.
- Review technical bid documents, bill of quantities, and technical specifications for rehabilitation activities.
- Provide need-based design of major rehabilitation components to support DRIP IAs.
- Estimate costs based on item rate analysis or Scheduled of Rates (SOR).
- Offer expert input for physical modelling of significant structural interventions.
- Participate in CS&QA activities on behalf of CPMU as a third-party CS&QA representative.
- Conduct dam safety inspections and manage transmittals.
- Facilitate capacity building of DRIP IAs through customized training programs at various levels.
- Contribute to the revision of existing guidelines and the formulation of new ones.
- Provide inputs for the National Website for dam safety information and the MIS system.
- Assist in the development of in-house expertise at select Academic Institutes.
- Develop a Training Calendar for design activities and customized training programs for the annual DRIP Calendar.
- Conduct need-based inspections of DRIP dams.
- Accompany central DSRP panels for special safety issues.
- Support any DRIP-related activity assigned by the Project Director, DRIP, CWC.
- Present technical case studies at Annual Dam Safety Conferences and international workshops/conferences.
- Collaborate with CPMU, CWC for joint publication of technical papers.
- Prepare Project Rehabilitation Reports (PRR).
- Contribute to the finalization of the CS&QA Manual and Plan.
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SMEC is a global engineering, management and development consultancy with a 70-year history of delivering advanced solutions on a global scale across urban development, infrastructure and management services industries.
We are specialists in providing design leadership, consulting and advisory expertise across the roads and highways, rail and metro, aviation, hydropower and renewable energy sectors.
SMEC has a long and proud history which dates back to Australia’s iconic Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in 1949, one of the largest and most complex hydroelectric schemes in the world.
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