Civil & Land Development Specialist

  • Bura Tana, Kenya
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site
  • -
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Job Description:
  1. Land Preparation & Civil Works: Oversee end-to-end site preparation including bush clearing, land leveling, deep ripping, cultivation, and seedbed preparation to ensure fields are optimized for sugarcane cultivation.
  2. Field Layout & Surveying: Collaborate with survey teams to verify block boundaries, levels, roads, drainage channels, and irrigation corridors before executing earthworks.
  3. Planting Coordination: Partner with the agronomy team to supervise the timely and accurate planting of sugarcane setts according to spacing, depth, and alignment specifications.
  4. Infrastructure & Drainage: Supervise the construction of farm roads, field access tracks, drainage profiles, and erosion control measures.
  5. Subcontractor & Fleet Management: Manage subcontractors and heavy equipment utilization (dozers, graders, excavators) to maximize productivity, track fuel efficiency, and minimize idle time.
  6. Quality Assurance & Handover: Conduct rigorous quality checks on finished levels, row alignments, and drain profiles before formal handover to irrigation and agronomy teams.
  7. HSE Compliance: Enforce strict health, safety, and environmental standards regarding heavy machinery operations, traffic management, fuel handling, and soil protection.
  8. Reporting & Project Controls: Maintain daily logs tracking equipment, labor, fuel, and completed hectarage; monitor budgets, schedules, and variations in coordination with the Project Manager and QS.