ECRL on recruitment drive to meet 70pc Malaysian workers target
Publish date: Wed, 02 May 2018, 06:23 PM
MALAYSIAN WORKERS TARGET
KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) - The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project will hold a recruitment drive in Bentong, Pahang, in line with its commitment to employ some 70 per cent Malaysian workers in the construction of the high-impact rail infrastructure.
Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL), the project owner for the 688-kilometre ECRL, said it will hold a one-day recruitment drive at the Bentong Chinese Town Hall on May 4, from 9 am to 5 pm, together with the project's main contractor, China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC).
Bentong, with a population of over 100,000 people, is designated to have a freight and passenger station as per the ECRL Railway Scheme for Phase 1, approved by the Land Public Transport Commission in June 2017.
"The Bentong station would be among the eight designated stations in Pahang under the ECRL alignment," MRL said in a statement today.
According to MRL, jobs available for immediate hiring during the Bentong recruitment drive would include administration, engineering, construction management, commercial and contract and laboratory work.
It said fresh graduates in civil engineering, as well as skilled, semi-skilled and entry-level construction workers, preferably between the ages of 18 and 35, are encouraged to attend walk-in interviews which could facilitate their employment.
"Candidates also stand a chance to be enrolled into the three-month ECRL Industrial Skills Training Programme aimed at training Malaysians with railway technology skill sets. Upon successful completion, the trainees will be absorbed as full-time employees by either MRL, CCCC, or its subcontractors," added MRL.
The one-day recruitment also offers other jobs such as concreter, barbender, formworker, tester, welder, electrician, wheel loader and excavator operator.
Candidates need to bring along their resume, passport-sized photo as well as original and photocopies of their educational certificates to be eligible for the interview.
MRL Chief Executive Officer Datuk Seri Darwis Abdul Razak said the project is on track to ensure Malaysians make up 70 per cent of the 30,000 workers needed during its peak construction period in late-2019,
He said the recruitment drive in Bentong is part of a nationwide roadshow that began in March this year, involving Kuala Lumpur, Kota Bharu, Dungun and Kuantan.
"MRL and CCCC also plan to actively hold recruitment drives in the west coast states of Peninsular Malaysia and in Sabah and Sarawak to rapidly reach out to potential workers to participate in the infra-rakyat project.
"We will go all out to encourage professionals, skilled and semi-skilled workers with an interest in the rail infrastructure to join the ECRL bandwagon at the soonest. The on-going technology transfer from the project will also enable Malaysians to embrace the most modern and efficient rail technology from China," Darwis added.
MRL is a special-purpose vehicle owned by the Minister of Finance Incorporated, and tasked to implement and deliver the ECRL by mid-2024.
- BERNAMA
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another RM55 bil wastage white elephant.waste money since Kelantan not an oil producing state or any big income will come from there
2018-05-02 19:27
“Cargo doesn’t need to be transported through a high-speed railway. So who is it for?
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/08/24/economist-says-malaysias-deindustrialisation-is-worrying/
2018-05-02 22:57
" What kind of cargo needs such a costly high-speed haulage connection? And which high-speed railway in the world stimulates so many businesses and jobs in all the towns it will pass through at such speed, as claimed?"
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2017/08/11/ecrl-will-only-burden-malaysians/
2018-05-02 23:06
Current KTM train freight volume for the whole of Malaysia is about 6.2 million metric tons. In order to achieve 53 million metric tons by 2030 for ECRL alone, freight volume will have to grow by about 20% compounded every year between now and 2030 (next 12 years)!
2018-05-03 11:04
expect a mass layoff within 2 years ...replaced with foreign labour ...the whole concept is a job creation drive for prcs..this is their SOP for many years..initially throw money ..get the clients to be reliant on one vendor end to end..subcon out the work to prc sdn bhd..later when the mass layoffs happen..expect wages to depress significantly espescially for the skilled workers...just look at the whole tech industry
2018-05-04 16:09
Actually on the broader geo-political view, I'm ok with the project. At least the present government are taking a step ahead to cushion the Kra Canal project impact.
The Kra Canal is workable & can be financed easily by China. If the Kra Canal project materialized ( Panama & Suez canal have been successfully built by human) , Singapore will be the first one to bungkus and Port Klang will follow from behind.
The center of maritime will be shifted too Thailand. Malaysia & Singapore who have been enjoying the control over the shipping route at Strait of Malacca will impacted heavily.
At present, the Kra Canal is facing resistant from Thailand peoples also, like wise in our country, there is always certain quarters will object on the proposal.
At least with the ECRL, it will provide some alternative to Kra Canal.
Only the cost of the project need to be justified. At the moment, none of the both political divide have come out to defend why the cost is justify or why the cost is not justify in details.
Of course, with the scandal surrounding present government on 1MDB, whatever proposal just looks like equally bad at people perception level. Blame not the people, blame why the 1MDB loan was repayed after the signing of the ECRL. It looked too obvious the money from ECRL project was use to roll for the repayment of 1MDB loan.
2018-05-04 16:54
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more jobs to locals first then slowly replace them with foreigners citing labor cost. We have lost a lot of this well-paying jobs to foreigner especially Indian expats who come here claiming that they are highly talented only for the employers to find out that they cheated on their resume. High time to replace these scumbags with local talents. Partly Malaysian and their race and religion based card play and employment to be blamed.
2018-05-02 19:22