volume 8 foreign aided project management manual contents

MANAGEMENT MANUAL VOLUME 8
RHD Specific Job Description – Foreign Aided Project Operations
SJD/FAP/3.1 – Engineer’s Representative – PIU Roads or Bridges or PMP
Foreign Aided Project Management Manual – PIU
Approved:
OFFICERS UNDER THE ENGINEER’S REPRESENTATIVE – PIU
• Project Manager
• Supporting officers
PERSONNEL SPECIFICAT IONS:
The Engineer’s Representative (ER) shall meet the general requirements of a prudent
international consultant as specified by FIDIC and the requirements as provided in the contract
agreement between the ‘Consulting firm’ and the ‘Employer’.
When the ER is engaged from the RHD Superintending Engineers or the Executive Engineers
he should have ability to perform duties according to the responsilities of an Engineer’s
Representative and the general duties and responsilities as specified in the RHD Management
Manual Volume 1 and as provided in the recruitment rules of the government. The post holder,
in this case, shall be a minimum graduate in civil engineering and served as a Project Director or
Additional Project Director or Project Manager of a foreign aided project for a minimum period of
three years. He should preferably have received training in construction and maintenance
management of roads and bridges.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
General
1. Prepare contract packages and bidding document based on Standard Tendering
Documents as modified by RHD and in accordance with PPR 2003;
2. Participate actively in the selection process of contractors;
3. Prepare project specific Quality Assurance Plan for the works incorporating amongst
others, procedures for document control and quality control;
4. Review contractor’s work programme, statements of methodology and instruct for
necessary adjustments in a particular work item to avoid delay in the completion of the
works;
5. Ensure that the contractor establishes site facilities according to the requirements of the
contract for proper arrangement and management of the project;
6. Ensure that the laboratory tests are certified and records of tests are maintained by the
contractor in accordance with the Quality Assurance Plan;
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