Technical Officer (Plastic recycles)

Job Description

Title: Technical Officer (Plastic recycles)

Company Name: BEDO

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 40 years

Job Location: Bogura, Naogaon

Salary: Tk. 50000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor of Science (BSc)

• Should have B.Sc. in (relevant subject /Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering/Chemical Engineering /Production Engineering/Industrial Management) from a Approved university.

• Candidate having Master’s degree in (relevant subject /Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering/Chemical Engineering /Production Engineering/Industrial Management) will be given preference.

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 40 years

• Minimum 5 (Five) years’ experience in the development sector with 3 years of working experience in relevant sector (only full-time work experience after graduation will be considered).

• Relevant working experience with PKSF or any project funded by multi-lateral development partners would be preferred.

• Working experience in enterprise development related projects will be given preference.

• Knowledge on resource efficiency, product diversification, certification, environment, climate change and vulnerability, cleaning production, environmental capacity, Value chain actors, waste management will be an added advantage.

• Practical knowledge and experiences in training modules, leaflets, case stories, etc. development.

• Ability to work in a team and with good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Have knowledge on crashing machine, washing machine, extruder machine etc.

• Familiar with different plastics like PET.PPT, PVC and its recycling system.

• Good computer knowledge (MS office and relevant applications).

BEDO is going to implement a sub-project titled ‘Promoting sustainable growth in the plastic Recycling sub-sector through RECP practices’ as a part of the ‘Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART)’ project. This sub-project aims to increase resource-efficient and resilient green growth of microenterprises (MEs) under ‘Plastic Recycles’ sub-sector. The project is jointly financed by the World Bank, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), and BEDO.

Reporting to: Project Manager

Duration

The employee will initially be hired for a one-year term, with the possibility of extending the contract till 30 June 2028, based on satisfactory performance.

Sub-project Objectives

• Ensure proper resource utilization of MEs in an efficient way.
• Boost productivity with appropriate technology.
• Develop capacity of MEs for climate resilient sustainable business.

Responsibilities :

The ‘Technical Officer’ will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and will undertake the following duties and responsibilities, which are essential but not limited to:

• Assist the Project Manager in planning, monitoring, and supervising the implementation of project activities.
• Assist to identify potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient cleaner production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.
• Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.
• Select MEs for demonstration, set-up demonstration, and follow-up the MEs.
• Prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project.
• Impart training on new/improved climate-resilient, resource-efficient and cleaner production aquaculture/livestock/Agriculture/light-engineering/textile/Food processing technologies, GAP/ GAqP/GLP/GMP, climate change vulnerability, etc.
• Assist in organizing field days, exposure visits, meetings, workshops, seminars, fairs, Environment Club meetings, etc.
• Explore circular economy, value-added product diversification, and new market potentiality.
• Assist to produce monthly, quarterly, and annual progress report as per the requirement of the management.
• Regular field visit at project areas, tracking the MEs progress in adoption of the RECP practices and reporting.
• Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. DoE, DFES, DoL, DoC BITAC,and BSTI), academicians, value-chain actors (Plastic factory owners, inputs sellers, market actors, transporter etc.), private sector companies, etc.
• Any other tasks, duties, or specific tasks assigned by the Project Manager and management of the organization.

• Other admissible benefits (Festival Bonus, Bangla Noboborsho allowance, Mobile allowance, etc.) as per the organization`s policy.

• Salary and other admissible benefits (if any) are inclusive of all taxes as imposed by the government of Bangladesh. Taxes will be deducted at sources as per government rules.