Director of Physical Planning

Job description

The director of physical planning is the head of the department of physical planning and responsible of the vice-chancellor for the day to day running and maintenance of university building. Roads, water boreholes, electrical installations. Equipments and other properties including provision of service and utilities for the well-being of the university. The applicant for the post must exhibit considerable degree of competence, responsiveness and demonstrable integrity for the running of directorates of physical planning of works and maintenance of a university. Prospective candidates must be proficient in ICT with demonstrable competence in computer aided design and controls. Candidates for any of the positions must be in good health to be able to endure the rigors of the duties of such directorates and must be such that they would not exceed the retirement age before the end of five years tenure. Candidates for the post of director of physical planning must have degree in engineering, building, architecture, quantity surveying, estate management, urban and regional planning, plus at least 15 years of relevant experience especially on campus planning and development. Candidates must not be below the rank of a deputy director of physical planning in a university of similar institution. Possession of a post graduate degree will be an added advantage. In addition, candidate must be registered member of relevant professional bodies such as council of the society of engineers (NSE) and the council of the regulation of engineering in Nigeria (COREN), ARCON ( for architects, QSRBN ( for quantity surveyors) NIOB ( for builders), etc. Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the under listed positions in MichaelOkparaUniversity of agriculture, umudike.