About the Company

Why not come and work for one of Ireland's most progressive and ambitious engineering and environmental consultancies. We work in sustainability so if you want to progress your career in a socially responsible company working towards a sustainable planet then join us.         

We are based in Ireland but also work in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We are part of the RSK Group, a group of more than 175 companies with over 11,000 employees operating around the globe, and are one of the leading engineering and environmental science companies in the world.

Project Overview

The Market Driven Irrigated Horticulture Project (MDIH) aims to establish a sustainable and inclusive model of irrigation, water resources, and land management in Lesotho.

About the Role:

The Team Leader shall provide strategic direction and overall management of the Consultant team with the overall responsibility of ensuring that all works designed and constructed for the Market Driven Irrigated Horticulture Project (MDIH) are coordinated, and its activities are sequenced appropriately. The Team Leader shall be based in Maseru full-time for the base period and part-time during the option periods.

Key Requirements:

Qualifications:

• University degree in water and/or construction and/or agriculture engineering field, administration, or a related field.
• Fluent in the English language (B2 level or higher of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR, Table 1).

General Professional Experience:

• 20 or more years of overall experience and 15 years of relevant international design experience in water resources/irrigation sector projects of similar scope, size, and complexity.
• Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa would be an added advantage.

Specific Professional Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams or managing at least one project with a value of over 30 million USD and containing multiple project components.
• Demonstrated experience and skills on a minimum of two projects in planning, monitoring, and reporting in multiple project environments and the context of a donor-funded development project.
• Specific experience in the delivery of at least one design-build project using the FIDIC Yellow Book.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• You will have an agile and “Can Do” mindset.
• Ambitions self-starter with high self-standards.
• Motivated to be part of a Company with a real purpose, improving the quality of people’s lives and communities.

Our mission is to provide advice and assistance to today’s global community in delivering sustainable infrastructure for tomorrow. As a professional engineering and environmental consultancy, we provide water engineering, environmental engineering and civil and structural engineering services to public- and private-sector clients, mainly in the transportation and infrastructure sectors.

Throughout our history, we have been providing water and wastewater engineering services to authorities serving millions of consumers. We have used our engineering services to help develop more than five-thousand kilometres of highways, making us one of Ireland’s most respected consulting engineering practices. We have worked in more than 40 countries throughout the developing world. Our employees have access to a range of major projects in Ireland, the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Nicholas O’Dwyer is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK’s growth commenting, “Few companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK.” 

RSK operates as a group of synergistic businesses with a growth strategy centred on diversification to build a resilient business that can withstand external pressures while also bringing more value to clients and opportunities to employees.