Engineering and Planning Sector
Project Supervision and Implementation
Supervising the delivery of water and wastewater projects on site, managing contractors and payment certificates, and controlling quality through to final handover.
Objectives
What this directorate works to achieve within the utility plan.
Compliance on site
Works that match approved designs and specifications, not contractor improvisation.
Quality control
Material and pressure testing before handover, not after.
Schedule adherence
Tracking progress and addressing delays early.
Field documentation
Recording what was actually built through survey, photography and reports.
Duties and responsibilities
The main roles carried out by the directorate.
- Supervising water and wastewater projects in the field.
- Managing contractors, payment certificates and variation orders.
- Survey work, route setting-out and level control.
- Material testing and pressure tests prior to handover.
- Preparing progress reports for donors and management.
- Provisional and final acceptance of works, with recorded observations.
Units and sections
Organisational units within the directorate.
Water projects section
Supervising network, source and reservoir projects.
Wastewater projects section
Supervising sewerage and treatment projects.
Survey and site supervision unit
Survey and on-site monitoring of projects.