Our client has approved technical assistance (TA) to the Government of Bangladesh to support the Bangladesh Railway, the state-owned rail transport agency, in strengthening its capacity to improve its operational efficiency and financial sustainability. The TA will review Bangladesh Railway's operations and cost and revenue structure to develop an institutional framework to improve the agency's operational efficiency and capacity in project implementation.
They are seeking a Rolling Stock Engineer (National) to support activities on this project.
Please note our client will only consider Bangladeshi Nationals for this role.
Key Tasks but not limited to:
- Review and familiarize with Bangladesh Railway (BR) operations and existing studies, including but not limited to the Roadmap and Core Business Study (CBS).
- Prepare an inception report outlining the methodology, work plan, and schedule for the assignment.
- Review existing BR documents (e.g., annual information books, websites, statistical yearbooks) to assess available data.
- Identify bottlenecks constraining operational capacity expansion.
- Identify cost factors that can be reduced by comparison across BR divisions and with international benchmarks.
- Conduct a workshop with BR staff to share findings, validate that data-based bottlenecks reflect operational realities, and identify additional bottlenecks not captured in data.
- Draft and submit an operational efficiency mid-term report summarizing findings to BR and the client for review.
- Review Roadmap action items and assess their impacts on service levels, operational ratios, costs, and implementation timelines. Estimate improvements in operational ratios
- Propose additional initiatives to address bottlenecks or improve efficiency.
- Prioritize initiatives according to agreed directions. Where appropriate, group initiatives to maximize impact.
- Identify the area(s) of case study, and develop a specific plan to improve the operational efficiency in short/medium term: (a) Identify current bottle necks to improve operational efficiency (including issues hindering increase in operation, causing high cost for operation and/or lower usage of assets); (b) propose a plan to improve the situation with combination of measures in Roadmap and/or other measures; and (c) evaluate the impact of such plan in terms of increase in operation, increase in revenue and/or decrease in cost.
- Draft an Operational Efficiency Improvement Plan incorporating: (i) identified bottlenecks, (ii) strategic directions, (iii) prioritized initiatives, (iv) expected costs and revenues, (v) KPI framework, and (vi) anticipated impacts. Submit to BR and the client for review.
- Identify assets required for BG conversion under the agreed service levels.
- Analyze the phasing from MG to BG, considering the asset life cycles, and achieve future operation level, and proposing the phasing plan, which shows the MG/BG operation year by year, and the list of subprojects to achieve the phasing. The list of assets and usage of assets will be shown year by year.
- Estimate the cost of the subprojects.
- Identify the short-term and long-term economic benefit of the conversion.
This Job closes on 4th December 2025.