Civil Engineer-Officer

Key skills

Building maintenance

construction Management

Construction Supervision

Collaboration with stake holders

Problem solving skills

Technical proficiency

Additional/Preferred Skills

Project Management

Computer skills

Preferred Qualifications

BE/B-Tech in Civil Engineering

Officer – Civil Engineer

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic and motivated Indian nationals as Officer - Civil Engineer in Farm & Engineering Services under Corporate Services. The selected candidate will be responsible for overseeing civil construction activities, ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of buildings and related structures. This includes managing modifications, upgrades, and the development of new infrastructure across offices, laboratories, residential facilities, and other areas within the campus. Ensuring the maintenance & upkeep of uninterrupted drinking water supply, sewerage and storm water systems of the campus. This position will be based at ICRISAT’s Headquarters in Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit - www.icrisat.org

Responsibilities:

• Manage, develop and maintain all physical infrastructure at ICRISAT campus

• Ensure timely & quality delivery of various works/ projects (maintenance, upgrades & new developments)

• Plan, estimation, construction supervision, quantity measurements and billings.

• Supervise and lead the maintenance, upgrade and new construction projects for research & non-research activity.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders both internal & external for effective implementation of the jobs.

• Advise management on critical Capital replacement plans based on organizational priorities and suggest cost-saving measures.

• Should have the aptitude to work with inter-disciplinary teams in multi-cultural environment.

• Coordination between various agencies and disciplines for efficient and timely delivery of services.

• Implement good quality standards, cost-efficiency in all the works.

Essential criteria:

• Master’s degree in civil engineering or similar from a reputed university.

• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ experience in civil construction and maintenance

• Experience with well reputed construction / similar organizations, would be an added advantage

• Thorough knowledge of building construction and good maintenance practices.

• Knowledge in use of MS-Projects will be an added advantage.

General:

This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years), renewable based on the performance of the incumbent and the institute’s continuing need for the position.

How to apply:

The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. Shortlisting will start from 20 November 2025. All Applicants should apply with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer