Summary
Date Posted: 20th December 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time , Currency: Tsh

JOB DETAILS:
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA PRESIDENT’SOFFICE PUBLIC SERVICE RECRUITMENT SECRETARIAT
Ref.No.EA.7/96/01/I/234 12th December, 2018

Vacancies Announcement
On behalf of Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC), The Cereals and Other Produce Board of Tanzania and Water Institute (WI) President’s Office, Public Service Recruitment Secretariat invites qualified Tanzanians to fill 158 vacant posts as mentioned below;

Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC)
Prior to May-2017, Tanzania owned a Railway network built more than 115 years ago by Germany and later British, along central corridor having Meter Gauge standards. The GoT through TRC is has lunched development of SGR network whereby as of to date, Feasibility Studies are completed to cover more than 4,880 route-km of SGR network in the Country, distributed in three corridors namely Central corridor which runs from Dar Port via Dodoma and Tabora to North and West parts of Tanzania reaches borders with land locked Countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and Zambia; Southern Corridor of Mtwara to Amelia Bay, within Mbamba Bay areas, with spurs to Mchuchuma and Liganga in Njombe and Songea Regions and the North Tanzania corridor starts at Port in Tanga town, traversing via Moshi and Arusha to Musoma port linking Central corridor at Shinyanga town.

Implementation of SGR project has started with Phase-1 of Dar-Mwanza having 1,219 route-km along the central corridor, which is organized in 5 Lots. Construction of SGR in Tanzania commenced in May-2017 using Design & Build Contracts. Currently Construction is ongoing for the first 2-lots of Dar to Morogoro (205 route-km) and Morogoro to Makutupora –Singida (336 route-km).

The SGR system under construction includes Civil Engineering structures, Signaling & Telecommunication facilities, Electrification Systems, Electro-Mechanical engineering Equipment and Machineries. The Operations & Maintenance of these infrastructure, equipment and system will need latest equipment and processes that will be mainly utilizing ICT to minimize manual working and enhance e-working. The will lay down a very good employment environment for young qualified Tanzanian candidates to start participating from this very initial stages of the program implementation which is valued at more than USD 3.35 billion, which at current exchange rate (Nov-2018) is equivalent to TZS 7.01 trillion for only the 542 route-km. Which implies that as Government progress with execution of other phases/Lots to finish the entire SGR network of 4,880 route-km, employments to these candidates will obviously be guaranteed as construction, will take years to come.

In these regards engagement of qualified workforce is needed to take part first at “Testing & Commissioning” and second at later stage of “Operations & Maintenance” of SGR systems

10 EMU Train Drivers
Terms of Engagement: Three years contract

Qualifications and Experience
FTC or Diploma either in Electrical, Electromechanical and Mechanical Engineering or equivalent qualifications from recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in planning of training and advancement of locomotive crew;
  
• Check the engine and general state of the train prior to starting each journey;
  
• Ensure that the correct freight is loaded if necessary;
  
• Ensuring that the precise route is known and agreed with the control centre;
  
• Find out about any problems which may affect the route the track as well as the train itself;
  
• Maintain awareness of track conditions and weather conditions;
  
• Following signals and safety regulations at all times and keep the train under control and at the appropriate speed at all times;
  
• Keeping control of instruments including brakes;
  
• Keep passengers well informed of the train and journey surroundings such as emergency awareness procedures by making announcements as much as it required;
  
• Make sure passengers are well serviced throughout the time;
  
• Stopping the train at the appropriate stops on each schedule and alert the driver taking over duty in case of any incidents or engine issues:
  
• Keeping a record of any problems which may occur;
  
• Alert the control centre to any hazards which have been spotted along the route.

Job application procedure

NOTE: All applications must be sent through Recruitment Portal by using the following address; http://portal.ajira.go.tz/ and not otherwise (This address also can be found at PSRS Website, Click ‘Recruitment Portal’) SECRETARY