Design Engineer - Community Resilience Project, Myanmar

About the role

The Community Resilience Project, implemented by UNOPS over four years starting in the latter half of 2025, helps communities in six states of Myanmar cope with and recover from ongoing crises and prepare for future shocks. The Design Engineer, reporting to the Deputy Programme Manager, ensures the technical feasibility and quality of community-prioritized infrastructure, integrates climate resilience and disaster risk reduction into designs, and gives technical guidance to implementing partners.

Key responsibilities

• Support partners in designing infrastructure sub-projects: drawings, technical specifications, bills of quantities and cost estimates, adapted to local conditions and community capacity.
• Review designs from concept through detailed design and ensure they meet UNOPS standards, including climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, environmental, accessibility and safety considerations.
• Monitor implementation against approved designs and specifications, conduct site visits and technical reviews, and recommend corrective actions.
• Verify design changes during construction, support the review of completed works before handover, and coordinate with the 3PI infrastructure team and partners.
• Provide technical guidance on materials, methods and locally appropriate solutions, and advise on risk mitigation.
• Supervise junior engineers, document lessons learned, maintain a repository of model designs and templates, and support technical training for partners.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree (preferably Civil Engineering, Construction Management or Project Management) with 4 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 2 years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience in building construction, site supervision, infrastructure project management or similar fields.
• Experience in quality control, monitoring and reporting within construction projects.
• Desired: design-related certification, experience in multicultural or UN system settings in a developing country, and experience in development or humanitarian contexts.

Required skills

• Demonstrable proficiency in collaboration and productivity tools such as G-Suite and web-based management systems.
• Project documentation, report writing and technical communication.