Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 09 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
• To provide technical advice on use of farm machinery, plants, structures and equipment
• Guiding Project management teams and committees
• Guiding tender evaluation committees on bills of quantities and engineer’s estimates
• Supervising construction of agricultural projects and structures
• Supervising soil and water conservation
• Advising on farm power and mechanization
• Advising on irrigation and drainage programmes
• Advising on Designing Agricultural machinery, plants structures, components and equipment
• Advising on installation and testing of agricultural machinery and equipment
• Advising on Designs food processing plants and operations
• Designing structures of storage
• Providing advice on water, quality and issues related to managing pollution, rivers bank protection and use of water resources
• Resource mobilization for the section
• Developing Bills of quantities and engineer’s estimates for projects
• Coordinating Networking and creating partnerships with other stakeholders
• Preparing reports and briefs for projects status
• Participate in preparation of the Annual work plan and budget
• Ensuring projects implementation according to approved budgets and plans.
• Preparing and reviewing all Bills of works for contracts to be awarded to vendors of goods and services related to Agriculture, Irrigation, Environment, Livestock and fisheries projects.
• Preparing terms of reference s for project’s surveys, evaluation and review evaluation reports.

Qualifications
• Must be a Kenyan citizen
• Hold a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering or any other Engineering related field
• Be registered by Institute of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) or Engineer’s Board of Kenya (EBK)
• Must have at least 3 years’ experience in similar work
• Good design and visualization skills, AutoCAD, Google Earth, GIS and other design tools will be an added advantage
• Computer literate with knowledge on related Computer packages
• Possess Proposal development skills,
• Good Communication skills,
• To have resource mobilization skills.
• Integrity Clearance
• Successful applicants are expected to get clearance from the following bodies.
• Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
• Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)
• Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
• Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
• Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI)
• For those with higher education certificates (degrees) from outside Kenya, a letter of recognition of qualifications from the Commission of University.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Note:
• Additional information and proper job descriptions on the advertised positions are available on the website at www.homabay.go.ke 
• Canvassing in any form will lead to automatic disqualification
• Applicants from Homa Bay County are required to indicate their constituency and ward of residence
• Shortlisted candidates for all the positions advertised will be required to provide copies of relevant documents from the under-listed authorities.
• Kenya Revenue Authority.
• Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission
• Higher Education Loans Board
• Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)
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