Associate Engineer

About Washington healthcare 

Washington HealthCare Plc (WHC) is a specialized secondary care facility in Addis Ababa, providing quality and affordable healthcare to local and international communities. Managed by experienced Ethiopian, American, and visiting doctors, WMC opened in January 2015 and has since served over 120,000 patients. Initially an internal medicine specialty center, it offers 24-hour care with US and Ethiopian-trained doctors in sub-specialties like cardiology, neurology, and oncology. The center plans to expand into a multi-specialty service and ultimately a tertiary care hospital and medical school.

 Our values:

We will take every opportunity to serve and support those seeking our care, based on seven fundamental values that form the foundation of Washington healthcare culture:

• Quality: We maintain the highest standards and achieve them by continually measuring and improving our outcomes.
• Compassion: We demonstrate our commitment to world-class care by providing a caring and supportive environment for our patients, patients' families and fellow caregivers.
• Integrity: We adhere to high moral principles and professional standards by a commitment to honesty, confidentiality, trust, respect and transparency.
• Teamwork: We collaborate and share knowledge to benefit patients and fellow caregivers for the advancement of our mission.
• Service: We strive to exceed our patients' and fellow caregivers' expectations of quality, comfort and convenience.
• Innovation: We welcome change, encourage invention and continually seek better, more efficient ways to achieve our goals.
• Stewardship: We are committed to fulfilling our mandate to build a world-class, sustainable healthcare sector in Ethiopia.

Position summary:

The Associate Engineer is primarily responsible for providing a technical support to Constructions Project Manager (CPM). This responsibility includes, but not limited to, ongoing site construction supervision, construction quality control, plan and follow-up the timely completion of projects, technical drawing preparation, payment certification, bid evaluation and other technical duties as assigned by CPM.

Essential duties:

• Perform all engineering works as per direction of the CPM.
• Assist the CPM on project development and implementation planning, including providing content
• Prepare necessary quality control and work plan to supervise construction activities of sub- contractors and main contractors.
• Assist the CPM on review works, project timelines and cost of materials submitted by contracted firms and facilitate their speedy approval.
• Perform continuous quality control, monitoring and evaluation on projects under construction
• Review and certify payment requests and facilitate their approval with
• Support operations, finance and other teams on construction related works.
• Prepare periodic construction report, follow-up pending issues and Flag any construction risks

Term of Employment: Project Based- One year contract initially

Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa, Projects sites

Salary & Benefits: Competitive

 Required qualifications:

• A BSc in Civil Engineering or construction management
• A minimum of Five years of experience as Site Engineer or Office Engineer positions in at least two construction projects
• Experience in healthcare sector construction projects is highly sought
• Ability to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, on a technical level
• Proven ability to work under pressure and in a constantly evolving and challenging environment
• Enthusiastic learner with a can-do attitude
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities and organizational skills, with experience working collaboratively as part of fast-paced team
• Fluency in English is essential

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants should apply through Ethiojobs: Associate Engineer | Ethiojobs