SMEC Grouting Specialist Job Vacancy in Kenya

Position Title: Grouting Specialist

About SMEC

SMEC is a professional services firm with Australian origins and a global footprint that provides high quality consultancy services for major infrastructure projects.

SMEC is ranked among the world’s top infrastructure design firms and continues to win industry awards for technical excellence, design innovation and the management of environmental and social risks.

SMEC is a member of the Surbana Jurong Group of Companies.

The SMEC Profile:

It is our culture to celebrate diversity, employ great people and work on interesting projects

We are a private company registered in Australia

We have an established network of over 75 permanent offices around the world and over 6,000 employees.

We offer our people opportunities to work, both in Australia and internationally, in the areas of: Water; Hydropower and Energy; Transport; Geotechnics and Tunnels; Environment; Urban Development; Social Development; Government and Advisory Services and Mining, Oil and Gas.

Grouting Specialist

Key Responsibilities

  • To give advice and guidance to the contractor on how to improve his grouting operations, including ground treatment in mixed biotite and granitic gneiss terrain for waterproofing a major 1500m long CFRD dam, a 250m long concrete spillway weir as well as embankment saddle dams;
  • Grouting for underground works (curtain, consolidation and contact grouting) for approx. 1800m of large diameter tunnels and shafts that have substantively been excavated and lined.
  • Improvement of Contractor’s QA/QC systems and protocols
  • Preparation of technical and progress reports including assessment of resource availability and material balance for project construction
  • Improving quality assurance and quality control to achieve earliest practical contract completion to specification.
  • Curtain, contact and consolidation grouting at the CFRD plinth and in underground elements of the Works.
  • Working with an inexperienced and under -resourced Chinese Contractor
  • Working in a relatively remote location with ad hoc specialist technical support

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CVs quoting the job title on the email subject to, proc.ken@smec.com on or before 31 August 2022.

All CVs MUST have at least 3 referees.