Job Summary

Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation (ECDSWCo.) is transforming and diversifying from the current consultancy business operations. Taking advantage of the existing ECDSWCo.’s strength and maximizing on the newly emerging external opportunities that are being prevalent with the shifts in Ethiopian Economic Policy – the Corporation is aiming to play a significant role to the success of the Ethiopian Construction Industry -by creating a vibrant business institution that will not only fill the gap that is in the current construction industry, but also replace the need for having international construction companies that are dominating the government mega scale projects.

To this, the Corporation is emerging as an Engineering and Investment Group. The proposed name of the Group is ‘’Ethiopian Engineering and Investment Group (EEIG)’’. The Group will comprise of three main operational business units i.e., Consultancy, Construction and Investment.

EEIG-Construction business unit key activities are high-end complex construction projects, predominately high-rise commercial and residential buildings, real-estate; infrastructure (roads, railways and airports) & water and energy sector construction. EEIG-Construction alone would grow into a conglomerate of several business units including Piling, underground and foundation Works, Fit-Out, Energy (Solar Solutions), Electro- Mechanical Solution, Facility Management, Landscape and Construction Materials Production.

EEIG Construction is launched with the vision of being the best construction company in Ethiopia with a strategy of Timeously executing high-end complex projects, by utilizing proactive management skills as a Design and Build Contractor in order to achieve an optimum return and aspiring to be a competitive and preferred choice that can replace the current dependence on international contractors and deliver excellence. EEIG Construction will uphold Courage, Integrity, Reliability, Value for its People and Innovation as its core values.

As its first project – EEIG is going to build a 30 Floors Highrise Headquarter Building in the city centre of Addis Ababa – that will be design and build by its inhouse consultancy and construction business units.

Scope:

Provides support to management during the pre-tender process starting from evaluating/ assessing tenders, assessing risk factors to arrive at bid decisions, and estimating all the required material, equipment, and manpower needs to be able to arrive at reliable cost estimates for bidding projects.

Responsibilities: 

• Review and finalizes project cost estimates as prepared by the Estimation Engineers in terms of the required material as per bill of quantities, amount of work, material/ equipment/ and manpower requirements during the tendering phase.
• Liaise with the Procurement department to negotiate with approved vendors / suppliers and subcontractors for various supplies / material as per project (pre/post tender).
• Establish and implement “best practices” and focuses on continuous improvement.
• Study, analyze and evaluate tender documents from a technical point of view in order to identify risk factors, ensuring that technical terms comply with the relevant standards for the overall risk assessment and bid decision.
• Solicit and follow-up with the design/ drafting section during tender preparation for method optimizing in order to reach cost efficiency.
• Finalize estimation of all direct and indirect costs and consolidates tender documents for management review and approval.
• Provide all the necessary project clarifications/ information upon project award to the Project Manager as per the project budget; advise the Project Manager on contractual rights, remedies which has been taken into consideration during tendering.
• Generate weekly tender status reports highlighting progress on concerned tenders.
• Prepare and generates monthly progress reports highlighting tender wins/ losses (indicating reasons) for review and verification of management.
• Advise in determining types of projects to bid, strategies, techniques, etc.
• Assign estimating work, coach, mentor and provide technical support to estimating team.
• Coordinate with estimating & planning engineers to resolve design/system conflicts as well as coordinates overall scope of work during proposal phase.
• Evaluate subcontractor and vendor proposals.
• Review final estimate packages for accuracy and completeness prior to formal quote.
• Participate in pre-bid meetings and corporate/client presentation meetings as required.
• Ensure historical data is documented and archived on each quoted project.
• Maintain databases of standard material costs and various market pricing models.
• Manage and monitors the performance of direct report and provides guidance as and when required.

Reporting to:      

• CEO

Job Requirements: 

• Degree in Civil/Building Engineering or related fields. 

Experience:

• Minimum 15 years proven work experience as a Tender, Estimating, Procurement, Commercial Manager or Quantity Surveyor or similar role.
• The ideal candidate shall have an international experience/or worked with international companies here in Ethiopia – and have a proven track record of the successful management of the mentioned functions.

How to Apply

Interred and qualified applicants can apply through ethiojobs.net