Solid Waste Management Expert

SMEC is seeking a Solid Waste Management Expert in Kohima, Nagaland, India. The role involves reviewing existing waste management strategies, supporting urban infrastructure planning, prioritizing subprojects, and preparing detailed project reports. Responsibilities include assessing technological solutions for waste management, supervising surveys, and finalizing components for municipal solid waste management systems. The position requires expertise in waste collection, treatment, and disposal mechanisms.
review of any existing information of state-/region-/sector-level vision, policy and/or strategy papers, master plans, sector plans, etc., support to strengthen the urban infrastructure vision/plans and preparation of urban strategy and city investment plans along with prioritization framework and subproject selection criteria, identification/review and prioritization of subprojects based on pre-feasibility studies and above vision/plans/framework/criteria, prior to–undertaking feasibility studies/conceptual design, etc. (as appropriate), and preparation of comprehensive DPRs and bid documents; and at the study stages, the subproject components should cover mechanisms for MSW management, including door-to-door and/or community collection of segregated waste at source, transfer, transportation, and treatment requirements; and recommend any changes/ modifications for improvement, if required, while keeping in mind the feasibility of any possibilities/potential use for innovative and climate resilient interventions, such as, bio-gas plant, vermi-composting, mechanical composting, material resource centers, with or without waste-to-energy recovery systems when integrated with scientifically-laid sanitary landfillmechanical or vermi composting-incinerator-plasma gasification or vitrification plant, street cleaning vehicles, etc., as feasible, and arrive at MSW management plan for each prioritized subproject town;  review and assess the available/affordable technological solutions in India/region/subregion for plastic reuse and recycle, legacy waste management, decentralized but integrated solutions for waste treatment, efficient and cost-effective waste segregation and collection systems, resource recovery facilitating a higher waste diversion rate from conventional treatment system of sanitary landfill, etc.:  support in supervising topographic surveys, review the results of the topographical surveys, geotechnical surveys/ investigations, hydrological and geological studies (as felt required), and integrate these considerations in the design. Based on preliminary surveys, investigations and validated data contribute to the planning and design activities related to mechanisms for MSW collection, transportation, treatment and disposal requirements (such as sanitary landfill, incinerators, bio-gas plant, vermi-composting, mechanical composting, waste transfer station and/or waste storage depot/ waste compression or compaction or bailing equipment/material resource centers and/or recycling facility, with or without waste-toenergy recovery systems when integrated with scientifically-laid sanitary landfill-mechanical or vermi composting-incinerator-plasma gasification or vitrification plant, street cleaning vehicles, etc., as feasible);  support to strengthen any existing plans for subprojects, and finalize the subproject components (e.g., MSW segregation-at-source, door-to-door and/ or community collection systems, waste generated/average waste generation rate, waste diversion rate on resource recovery, waste transfer station and/or waste storage depot/ waste compression or compaction or bailing equipment/material resource centers and/or recycling facility, MSW transportation infrastructure, treatment and disposal mechanisms, including of residual waste, street cleaning vehicles, etc., as feasible);  while finalizing the detailed engineering designs, specifications and drawings, keep in consideration factors for resilience to climate risks/ climate change impacts and disaster risks (as per national standards/international standards and/or best practices, including ADB‟s South Asia Department framework and practice, and ADB‟s brief note on managing infectious medical waste during pandemics, such as coronavirus disease [COVID-19] pandemic, etc.), rapid climate risk assessment/ detailed climate risk and adaptation assessment or CRA (formerly climate risk and vulnerability assessment or CRVA) and climate resilience framework and measures prepared for adoption in detailed engineering designs, etc., at subproject/project-level, with due consideration made to concepts/best practices of significant waste segregation-at-source and resource recovery, higher waste diversion rate, involvement of private sector/community-level participation, etc.;

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