Vietnamese residents and foreigners could also be chosen and assigned skilled duties by competent authorities to turn out to be Vietnam-based chief engineers and chief architects below new standards established by the Government.
The Government has established mechanisms for recruitment of chief engineers and chief architects for the nation’s science and know-how growth, innovation and digital transformation.
Under Government Decree 231/2025/ND-CP dated August 26, specifying standards for choice and insurance policies for employment of chief engineers and chief architects for nationwide trigger of science and know-how growth, innovation and digital transformation, Vietnamese residents and foreigners could also be chosen and assigned skilled duties by competent authorities to turn out to be Vietnam-based chief engineers and chief architects.
Chief engineers embrace system chief engineers and undertaking chief engineers whereas chief architects embrace ministerial-level, provincial-level and undertaking chief architects.
General standards for choice of chief engineers and chief architects
Article 5 of the Decree specifies the next common standards for a chief engineer/chief architect to be chosen:
– Possessing skilled {qualifications} related to the utilized place. Priority shall be given to people possessing levels or certificates in core know-how administration or superior know-how, or having acquired nationwide or worldwide awards within the fields of science, know-how, innovation, and digital transformation.
– Having a want to contribute to the nationwide socio-economic growth, a transparent resume and good moral high quality; being in good well being to work; and being devoted to the job.
– Having an excellent status, expertise and functionality within the skilled area related to the assigned duties, with a document of works, innovations and merchandise of sensible worth for the assigned duties.
– Being in a position to clear up difficult or interdisciplinary technical issues; take care of technological crises; and suggest breakthrough or modern options to assist speed up the undertaking implementation as quickly as attainable.
In case a candidate fails to fulfill the above standards however is succesful of instantly performing skilled duties as a chief engineer/chief architect, the competent choice authority could determine to pick out him/her to implement a program, undertaking or job.
In addition to the above common standards, the Decree particulars choice standards for a system chief engineer, undertaking chief engineer, ministerial-level chief architect, provincial-level chief architect, and undertaking chief architect.
Article 6 of Decree 231 require a system chief engineer to fulfill the next standards:
– Having a minimum of 10 years’ steady work expertise in science, know-how, innovation or digital transformation as much as the time of choice.
– Possessing the power to design, arrange and coordinate large-scale, multi-component, multi-disciplinary, multi-level packages and initiatives with excessive innovation necessities and dangers; having the ability to construct a community of home and worldwide consultants and scientists.
– Having taken cost of a minimum of 2 interdisciplinary science and know-how schemes or packages in a strategic system area with nice impacts, or a minimum of 2 interdisciplinary science and know-how merchandise or duties in a strategic system area which were efficiently utilized, transferred or commercialized.
– Having instantly managed or coordinated large-scale, interdisciplinary schemes, packages, or initiatives within the fields of science, know-how, info, finance, regulation, human sources, or in inter-regional areas; or within the fields of infrastructure, core know-how and nationwide digital transformation; or having participated in constructing or implementing a digital transformation technique, know-how technique, or a nationwide or sectoral know-how roadmap.
Criteria for undertaking chief architects
Under Article 10 of this Decree, a undertaking chief architect should fulfill the next standards:
– Having a minimum of 5 years’ steady work expertise in science, know-how, innovation or digital transformation as much as the time of choice.
– Having efficiently taken cost of the implementation of a minimum of one program or job in science, know-how, innovation or digital transformation with a project-level impacts.
– Being succesful of engineering general structure of a program or undertaking and organizing the efficiency of duties with elements of science, know-how, innovation and digital transformation inside the program or undertaking.
– Being in a position to work, analysis and cooperate internationally with overseas entities in excessive know-how, science, innovation, and digital transformation.
This Decree additionally outlines complete preferential insurance policies for chief engineers and chief architects. These insurance policies cowl wage, bonuses, working situations, and housing and healthcare advantages.
By VLLF