Driver

Job Description

Title: Driver

Company Name: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Vacancy: 06

Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Minimum Salary: Tk. 39000 (Monthly)

Published: 13 Feb 2025

Education:
∎ Essential literacy and valid Light and Medium professional driving license issued by the Government of Bangladesh.
∎ Good knowledge of country roads

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Essential 2 years minimum of previous driving experience
∎ Desirable experience to use 4 wheel vehicle
∎ Desirable in MSF or other NGOs
∎ Bangla and Chittagonian essential, English desirable.
∎ Experience
∎ Languages

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Checking daily the technical conditions of the assigned vehicle (state of the tires, oil, Fuel, brakes, radio equipment, spare parts, etc.), performing weekly checks according to the MSF Logbook, refilling it when necessary, and keeping it clean to ensure it can be driven in perfect conditions. Carrying out a handover if another uses the vehicle
∎ Ensuring the security of passengers in the car, driving carefully, observing speed limits and traffic rules in the country and MSF security rules to avoid car accidents.
∎ Ensuring all passengers have all necessary papers in order before travelling and ensuring non-MSF staff sign disclaimers of responsibility before using the vehicle
∎ Ensuring correct loading and unloading of the vehicle, submitting the documents to the receiver of the goods, checking the status of delivered goods, returning the duly completed documents to Logistics and ensuring that the goods have the necessary documents
∎ Ensure all vehicle documents and the driver's driving license are valid and in the vehicle.
∎ Informing the line manager of any incident involving transporting passengers or goods.
∎ Knowing how to use all types of radios, codes, call numbers and radio alphabets by heart and communicating
∎ with the base according to MSF communications policy to inform the driver's position and any potential implications.
∎ Knowing and respecting the security rules related to vehicle movements, specifically those related to customs, checkpoints and roadblocks. Ensuring all passengers know and respect the security rules
∎ Ensuring that the internal and external parts of the vehicle is clean and clear and also to clean the engine and chassis regularly
∎ Checking the vehicle daily, i.e. fuel quantity, engine oil, coolant quantity, brake, crutch fluid, windscreen cleaning, radiator grill cleaning, tyre condition, any possible leakage and radio accessories)
∎ Whenever fuel amount comes down to half or after a week and even before every vacation, fuel must be refilled
∎ After using the vehicle by other driver, vehicle must be checked and to do report about probable problems
∎ To ensure that the logbook, liability form, complete emergency medical kit, accessories jack, strap, rope and also to check the availability of the reserved items which have been fixed in the logbook. If any tool is found absent or flawed, the line manager must be informed immediately
∎ Saving the vehicle from risk/accident/steal as much as possible; ensuring safe parking of the vehicle, particularly at night or during holidays
∎ Checking whether the load is properly preserved and complied duly and to ensure load/unload of the vehicle
∎ It is to be ensured that all carried goods are properly preserved and protected in the back/ inner side of the vehicle
∎ Security related all incidents to be notified to the movement monitoring officer or head of drivers
∎ As Smoking is absolutely prohibited in MSF vehicle in all conditions; in addition, while carrying inflammable items like gas cylinder, everybody must be cautious so that no one smoke in the nearby place. It must be ensured that all passengers are fully complying this rule
∎ To ensure safety and security of the vehicle, if he comes out of the base, he must try to remain close to it
∎ Checking daily the technical conditions of the assigned vehicle (state of the tires, oil, Fuel, brakes, radio equipment, spare parts, etc.), performing weekly checks according to the MSF Logbook, refilling it when necessary, and keeping it clean to ensure it can be driven in perfect conditions. Carrying out a handover if another uses the vehicle
∎ Ensuring the security of passengers in the car, driving carefully, observing speed limits and traffic rules in the country and MSF security rules to avoid car accidents.
∎ Ensuring all passengers have all necessary papers in order before travelling and ensuring non-MSF staff sign disclaimers of responsibility before using the vehicle
∎ Ensuring correct loading and unloading of the vehicle, submitting the documents to the receiver of the goods, checking the status of delivered goods, returning the duly completed documents to Logistics and ensuring that the goods have the necessary documents
∎ Ensure all vehicle documents and the driver's driving license are valid and in the vehicle.
∎ Informing the line manager of any incident involving transporting passengers or goods.
∎ Knowing how to use all types of radios, codes, call numbers and radio alphabets by heart and communicating
∎ with the base according to MSF communications policy to inform the driver's position and any potential implications.
∎ Knowing and respecting the security rules related to vehicle movements, specifically those related to customs, checkpoints and roadblocks. Ensuring all passengers know and respect the security rules
∎ MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities
∎ Maintenance of the vehicle
∎ Ensuring that the internal and external parts of the vehicle is clean and clear and also to clean the engine and chassis regularly
∎ Checking the vehicle daily, i.e. fuel quantity, engine oil, coolant quantity, brake, crutch fluid, windscreen cleaning, radiator grill cleaning, tyre condition, any possible leakage and radio accessories)
∎ Whenever fuel amount comes down to half or after a week and even before every vacation, fuel must be refilled
∎ After using the vehicle by other driver, vehicle must be checked and to do report about probable problems
∎ To ensure that the logbook, liability form, complete emergency medical kit, accessories jack, strap, rope and also to check the availability of the reserved items which have been fixed in the logbook. If any tool is found absent or flawed, the line manager must be informed immediately
∎ Saving the vehicle from risk/accident/steal as much as possible; ensuring safe parking of the vehicle, particularly at night or during holidays
∎ Checking whether the load is properly preserved and complied duly and to ensure load/unload of the vehicle
∎ Security
∎ It is to be ensured that all carried goods are properly preserved and protected in the back/ inner side of the vehicle
∎ Security related all incidents to be notified to the movement monitoring officer or head of drivers
∎ As Smoking is absolutely prohibited in MSF vehicle in all conditions; in addition, while carrying inflammable items like gas cylinder, everybody must be cautious so that no one smoke in the nearby place. It must be ensured that all passengers are fully complying this rule
∎ To ensure safety and security of the vehicle, if he comes out of the base, he must try to remain close to it

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Contract and Benefit
∎ Temporary Contract (18 months). Salary according to level 03 (Three) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 39000 Gross). Salary is not negotiable. Income tax deduction from salary based on current income tax rule. 2 annual leave days per month worked. Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Recruited Staff.
∎ Others
∎ There is no provisions for relocation. 2 Festival Bonuses after completion of one year of uninterrupted continuous service.

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Job Highlights:
∎ Performing the tasks of transporting authorized goods and passengers in an MSF vehicle, ensuring its technical and safety conditions and respecting the country's traffic rules and MSF security rules to provide a safe, smooth and efficient service

Read Before Apply:

Please send your CV, letter of motivation, scanned copy of all the academic certificates, NID, experience certificate to [email protected] by 23/02/2025. Mention "Application for Driver" in the subject line. No hard copies are accepted.