Ghana and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have entered into a Compact to help facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth in Ghana. The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), the client, is the entity accountable for overall management of Compact implementation. MiDA is embarking on medium to long term solutions to challenges in Ghana\u2019s power sector and to ensure a successful implementation of the Compact. MiDA intends to retain the services of a Program Management Consultant (PMC). The PMC is to represent MiDA and assume responsibility of the management of portions of the Compact related to works and services including design, and supervision associated with the Electric Company of Ghana (ECG). The PMC will also work closely with other consultants, to be engaged by MiDA, to perform project-related tasks on environmental and social performance, resettlement, social and gender inclusion and monitoring and evaluation.<\/p>\n
If selected as the PMC, CDM Smith with its partners will provide the following during a five year engagement in Accra, Ghana:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Management of portions of our clients Program related to works and services (from project oversight of services-related assignments, to design preparation and conducting studies, supervision of works, through commissioning and the defects liability period).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Support our client in the related procurement processes, including preparation of bidding documents, preparation of responses to requests for clarification, contract negotiations, etc.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Work closely with other third party consultants engaged by our client to ensure that all relevant components of the Program are delivered on schedule and budget.<\/p>\n
CDM Smith is searching for<\/p>\n
Job Title: Distribution Systems Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Preparation of electric network designs, technical specifications, scope of services, engineering estimates and other related engineering activities<\/p>\n \u2022 Power system planning activities such as preparation of distribution master plan, capacitor placement studies, etc.<\/p>\n \u2022 Application of international best practices, codes and standards for planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and training<\/p>\n \u2022 Possible training of utility (ECG) technical staff on power system operations and maintenance<\/p>\n \u2022 Technical and commercial distribution system evaluations, disaggregation of losses and system loss reduction techniques<\/p>\n \u2022 Ensure compliance of CDM Smith\u2019s budget, scope, schedule, quality and reporting requirements on various infrastructure assignments<\/p>\n \u2022 Advice and counsel to the client on matters relating to the project\u2019s success, including project delivery, strategies, contract management, construction oversight, and commissioning<\/p>\n \u2022 Regular reporting to both client and other stakeholders as required<\/p>\n \u2022 Adherence to CDM Smith\u2019s quality management program (QMP)<\/p>\n \u2022 Serve as the focal point for local issues including local staff and sub-consultants, interpretation of events on the ground, and contact for selected program stakeholders<\/p>\n Minimum Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n Agency Disclaimer<\/strong><\/p>\n All vendors must have a signed CDM Smith Placement Agreement from the CDM Smith Recruitment Center Manager to receive payment for your placement. Verbal or written commitments from any other member of the CDM Smith staff will not be considered binding terms. All unsolicited resumes sent to CDM Smith and any resume submitted to any employee outside of CDM Smith Recruiting Center Team (RCT) will be considered property of CDM Smith. CDM Smith will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have entered into a Compact to help facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth in Ghana. The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), the client,…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-3xb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n