Digital Industrial Engineer, Multiple positions

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

Within this remit, UN Environment, through its Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch in the Policy and Programme Division and in partnership with the UN Office for Project Services, acts in the role of an in-house technical assistance (TA) team that provides expertise to UN agencies in planning, designing, financing and implementing a range of actions to reduce their environmental footprint across a range of technical areas.

UN Environment, through various projects is installing such systems in field locations remote locations, predominantly least developed countries and within UN agencies such as Peacekeeping. It is anticipated that digital data will be gathered from thousands of sites in up to 40 countries. Two-way communication is also anticipated in a subset of those sites. The point sources of the data are an array of electrical engineering equipment such as diesel generators, inverters and low voltage and medium voltage smart meters, weather stations and portable data loggers.

Pilots to establish the digital communications technology, systems and standards to be adopted are to be designed, procured and installed in Q2-Q4 2018 and monitored thereafter.

Thereafter the work will evolve into three work streams:

• Development of system level support, such as standard online interfaces and data management plans for projects, sites and multi-country clients.
• Installation of diagnostic equipment and dataloggers at multiple sites to inform project baseline and feasibility studies
• Design, planning and implementation oversight of the digital communications components of multiple projects.

Working within a project team, the Digital Industrial Engineer will apply technical engineering knowledge and expertise in performance of the following duties: 

• Lead the digitalization of the power production and energy distribution facilities in the engineering team reporting to the Senior Engineer
• Develop the implementation strategy of smart metering systems and remote monitoring for energy production facilities and billing metering system (including, but not limited to fuel consumption monitoring, power and energy real time measurements, power quality measurements, solar PV and diesel generators on-line remote monitoring, data gathering and analysis tools, customer detailed energy consumption profiling).
• Provide the conceptual and detailed design of energy and power metering system including hardware requirements definition, installation and software implementation.
• Provide technical field support and troubleshooting for installation of the smart metering system at production and energy distribution level (including smart billing system).
• Support the procurement process for energy metering products and services.
• Ensure capacity building and inclusiveness of client teams during smart meters procurement phase, installation and commissioning.
• Lead the commissioning and troubleshooting of energy smart meters, dataloggers and billing systems.
• Write technical reports including field assessment of smart energy meters implementation and results.
• Support online, web-based software implementation for remote monitoring including data storage servers, user interface software and implementation

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  
• The incumbent is expected to travel 30% or more during the assignment to remote locations (including but not limited to least developed countries)

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Working in some of the world’s most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners’ expectations.

With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.

A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale. 

Based in Geneva, the Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECR) supports UNOPS offices throughout the region through: management, financial and programmatic oversight of global and country-specific portfolios, clusters and operations centres, including hosting services; fund and management advisory services; project implementation; procuring goods and services; and managing human resources.

ECR ensures that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between business units and projects across the entire region.

ECR operates global portfolios from offices in Geneva, Brussels and New York, and country-specific programmes from its operations and project centres located in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries.