Jobs at CMB Building, Maintenance & Investment Co. Limited (CMB)

Reports To: Project Manager, ED CMB-Vertikal

Job Purpose

• Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and design building structures following construction and government standards, using design software and drawing tools.
• Inspect project sites to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.
• Direct responsibility for construction operations, and building maintenance of structures at project site.
• Participate in surveying to lay out installations and establish reference points, grades, and elevations to guide construction.
• Participate in the development of work programme for housing projects to enhance its viability analysis
• Estimate quantities and cost of materials, equipment, or labour to determine project feasibility.
• Participate in the process of testing soils and materials to determine the adequacy and strength of foundations, concrete, asphalt, or steel.
• Provide technical advice regarding design, construction, or program modifications and structural repairs to industrial and managerial personnel.
• Conduct studies of traffic patterns or environmental conditions to identify engineering problems and assess the potential impact of projects.
• Undertaking technical and feasibility studies including site investigations.
• Liaising with clients and a variety of professionals including architects and subcontractors.
• Resolving design and development problems.
• Ensuring the project complies with legal requirements, especially health and safety.
• Assessing the sustainability and environmental impact of projects.
• Ensuring projects run smoothly and structures are completed within budget and on time.
• Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photographs, and other topographical or geologic data to plan projects.

Qualification/ Person Specification

• At least a B.Eng/HND in any related course
• Minimum of 4 years working experience in the Real Estate/construction industry
• Professional qualification will be an added advantage
• Highly creative with ability to think out-of-box
• Current on industry standards and best practices
• Ability work under pressure.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent follow through, ability to pay attention to details and organizational skills.
• High level of professionalism and multitasking.
• Analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
• Excellent people management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Good leadership and team building skills.
• Ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
• Strategic thinking, forecasting and planning skills.

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Report to: ED- Designs, CMB-Vertikal

Job Purpose

• To design, plan and oversee the construction of new buildings and road works, or alterations and extensions to existing properties or other structures as required by the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze configurations of the basic structural components of a building or other structure;
• Calculate the pressures, stresses and strains that each component, such as a beam or lintel, will experience from other parts of the structure due to human use or environmental pressures such as weather.
• Consider the strength of various materials, e.g. concrete, steel and brick, to see how their inclusion may necessitate a change of structural design.
• Liaise with other designers, including architects, to agree on safe designs and their fit with the visual concept of the construction.
• Examine structures at risk of collapse and advising how to improve their structural integrity, such as recommending removal or repair of defective parts or rebuilding the entire structure;
• Make drawings, specifications and computer models of structures for building contractors;
• Liaise with construction contractors to ensure that newly erected buildings are structurally sound;
• Apply expert knowledge of the forces that act on various structures;
• Use computers and computer-aided design (CAD) technology for simulation purposes.

Requirements/Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
• Masters added advantage
• 5 years post NYSC experience

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent skills in mathematics, IT and science
• Creativity
• Project management skills
• The ability to manage a budget
• Creativity
• Commercial awareness
• Team-working and communication skills
• Excellent mathematical, IT and analytical skills
• Good attention to detail
• Project and budget management skills
• A good working knowledge of construction methods, materials and legal regulations is important.
• Proficiency with computer-aided drafting software applications integral to structural engineering, such as AutoCAD and RISA, is essential.