Archives December 2008

Shanghai casts job net for overseas talent

Representatives of 28 financial institutions here will leave tomorrow for the United Kingdom and the United States in a bid to recruit professionals.

Organized by the Shanghai municipal bureau of human resources and social security, the institutions include banks, fund, and asset management companies. About 170 senior positions are being offered.

In the non-financial sector, more than 1,000 positions are being offered, the government said at a regular press briefing yesterday.

The municipal bureau, together with the local financial services office, will set up three recruitment booths in London, Chicago, and New York.

The booths will be open on Saturday, Tuesday and next Saturday.

“The timing is great for us given the fact that some premier foreign financial institutions are facing hardship and redundancy problems because of the global economic downturn,” Chu Minwei, president of Shanghai Finance University, said. The university is also looking to recruit overseas.

It is seeking three people to fill the positions of dean, department of international securities; assistant president, academic affairs; and chief economist, international finance institution.

“We expect the overseas professionals to help extend our global academic network, and introduce more top people to our university,” Chu said.

Jeanne Qian, China country manager for human resources consulting firm, Neumann Partners, said.

“It’s a smart move by Chinese companies to conduct this strategic hiring given the current situation under which foreign firms are laying off staff.

“Overseas professionals have a broader global view and have more international exposure, in particular to risk management, than domestic professionals.”

Ian Crawford, executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai, said the City of London is the largest financial market in the world, and thus has a wide variety of outstanding professionals.

“Overseas professionals work in a much bigger and wider market, and therefore have the opportunity to learn more about the trading and application of sophisticated financial products,” Crawford said.

However, there are stumbling blocks ahead for the talent hunters, the major ones being salaries and the cultural divide.

“The payment gap will still be there, although we will offer attractive salary packages for ideal candidates. We will offer an annual salary of 500,000 yuan ($ 74,000) or above, which is much higher than the average in China,” Chu said.

Crawford said Chinese financial institutions may baulk at the salary and bonus packages being offered to attract top professionals “but there is relatively little attraction for these professionals to come to Shanghai until the Chinese financial markets are significantly opened up”.

Site Manager (Shanghai) (eng090sh)

Job Title: Site Manager (Shanghai)
Report To: Technical Director
Location: Shanghai
With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, our client is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defense and Security markets with its global network of 20,000 high-level researchers.
Our client’s rich history goes back well over a century. Built slowly and with careful planning, the Group boasts remarkable cohesion and strength, and has often proven its ability to adapt its structures to prevailing conditions.
Leveraging a global presence and spanning the entire value chain, from prime contracting to equipment; our client plays a pivotal role in making the world a safer place. With the development in APAC, especially in China, they are looking for talents to join them.
Responsibilities:
1. Co-ordinates the planning and scheduling of installation, testing and all other field activities.
2. Be the key interface with the Civil Contractors for site activities.
3. Provides technical support for all field installation activities (work done by others).
4. Attends site meetings with customers, staff and sub-contractors.
5. Prepares regular status and the progress reports and meeting minutes for the Project Manager, Project Engineer and the Customer.
6. Ensures all site installation drawings and documents are kept current to relevant revisions.
7. Ensures that “as-built” information is recorded as the work progresses and that this is submitted to Toronto for updating of documentation.
8. Co-ordinates the activities of technical specialists from Thales RSS who are on site to perform integration testing, trouble shooting and commissioning testing.
9. Assists with site testing during the integration and commissioning periods.
10. Assists with training of customer operations and maintenance staff with respect to the train control system.
11. Responds to various customer correspondence, either directly or via the Project Manager.
12. Prepares SAR/problem/action reports and ensures these are processed correctly and communicated to the Project Manager and Project Engineer.
13. Performs some PICO testing and assists in T&C activities as required.
14. Administers & maintains site office, including the co-ordination of office suppliers, security, bill payments, etc.
15. Advise project manager of site staffing level requirements.
Requirements:
1. B.Sc. Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
2. 5 years relevant working experience
3. Working knowledge of Metro Signal products with respect to installation support and testing.
4. Working knowledge of safety standards and practices required at project site.
5. Experience in installation and testing of train control systems.
6. PC literate and use of word processing, spread sheet and scheduling software packages.
7. Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
8. Knowledge of company Policies & Procedures.
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Service Engineer (eng089sh)

Job Title: Service Engineer
Report To: Service Manager
Location: Shanghai
An Italian company specialized in engineering and production of reciprocating compressorused extensively in petrochemical, chemical and refinery industries. With 80 years development, the client today operates at the service of over thousands of customers in different countries.
Due to business expansion now there are some vacancies:
Job Description:
Responsibility:
1. Commissioning, startup and maintenance of reciprocating compressors on sites;
2. Report to Service Manager in Shanghai office;
3. Travel frequently within mainland China;
Requirements:
1. College/university degree, engineering background preferred;
2. At least 2-3 years working experience in related field;
3. Already live in Shanghai, but Non-Shanghai residents preferred.
4. Medium level oral and written English.
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Compressor Sales Manager(mkt263sh)

Job Title: Compressor Sales Manager
Report To: Chief Representative
Location: Shanghai
An Italian company specialized in engineering and production of reciprocating compressorused extensively in petrochemical, chemical and refinery industries. With 80 years development, the client today operates at the service of over thousands of customers in different countries.
Due to business expansion now there are four vacancies:
Job Description:
Responsibility:
1. Sales and marketing of process gas reciprocating compressors in petrochemical, chemical fields;
2. Conduct technical, commercial and kick-off meetings with customer;
3. Report to General Manager in Shanghai office;
4. Travel frequently within mainland China;
Requirements:
1. College/university degree, engineering background preferred;
2. At least 3 years working experience in related fields;
3. Already live in Shanghai, but Non-Shanghai residents preferred.
4. Fluent oral and written English.
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After Sales Manager (mkt262sh)

Job Title: After Sales Manager
Report To: Chief Representative
Location: Shanghai
An Italian company specialized in engineering and production of reciprocating compressorused extensively in petrochemical, chemical and refinery industries. With 80 years development, the client today operates at the service of over thousands of customers in different countries.
Due to business expansion now there are some vacancies:
Job Description:
Responsibility:
1. Customer relationship management after machine installation;
2. Help customer for their spare parts requirement;
3. Report to General Manager in Shanghai office;
4. Travel frequently within mainland China;
Requirements:
1. College/university degree, engineering background preferred;
2. At least 2-3 years working experience in related field;
3. Already live in Shanghai, but Non-Shanghai residents preferred.
4. Medium level oral and written English.
* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_mkt262sh@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Strategic Sourcing Manager (eng088sh)

Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Manager
Report To: Chief Representative
Location: Shanghai
An Italian company specialized in engineering and production of reciprocating compressorused extensively in petrochemical, chemical and refinery industries. With 80 years development, the client today operates at the service of over thousands of customers in different countries.
Due to business expansion now there are some vacancies:
Job Description:
Responsibility:
1. Searching and qualification of compressor components like pressure vessel, cooler, electric motor, etc.
2. Report to General Manager in Shanghai office;
3. Travel frequently within mainland China;
Requirements:
1. College/university degree, engineering background preferred;
2. At least 3 years working experience in related field;
3. Already live in Shanghai, but Non-Shanghai residents preferred.
4. Fluent oral and written English.
* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eng088sh@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Ministry urges better job guidance for graduates

The Ministry of Education has urged education departments across the country to offer better employment guidance and support to college graduates so that they can find proper jobs even in these difficult financial times.

“The grim economic situation poses an unprecedented challenge for college graduates to get a proper job. A series of new steps should be taken to broaden the job-seeking channels,” the ministry said on its website yesterday.

“The education departments should hold more and larger job fairs next year to provide better communication between employers and college graduates,” it said.

More than 6 million students will graduate next year and some of them have already begun seeking jobs.

Graduates who commit to work in remote and rural areas for a given period will be exempt from paying college tuition fees, the ministry said on Monday. And the government will pay off their education loans or grant them free admission to postgraduate courses.

The government will recruit over 30,000 college graduates next year to teach in rural schools in western regions.

The government adopted a plan in 2006 to send college graduates to rural schools as teachers, and will employ 100,000 graduates in villages in five years, starting from 2008.

On the Ministry of Education’s suggestion, the army will absorb more college students next year, and the figure will be nearly equal to the total quota for 2006 and 2007: 16,000 and 17,000.

Other plans to help new graduates include raising the number of seats in full-time postgraduate or second-degree courses, which many Chinese college students could join to postpone their job-hunting exercise and look for better ones with a higher degree a couple of years later.

A colossal number of students graduate from China’s colleges each year and their success rate in finding jobs varies.

Concrete Construction Specialist (eng091cd)

Title?Concrete Construction Specialist
Job Description:
Our client is a global engineering company and it is seeking qualified applicants for a Concrete Construction Specialist for an International Assignment at large dam project sites in Southwestern China.

Location: Chengdu

The Concrete Construction Specialist will be responsible for:

1. Providing consulting services related to concrete science, quality control and assurance monitoring of aggregate processing, concrete batching, mixing and delivery and concrete construction, and verification and documenting of contractors’ compliance with contract documents, with emphasis on proper specifications, materials, and workmanship for mass concrete, roller compacted concrete and reinforced concrete construction.
2. Work with designers and specifications writers to provide proper designs and contract documents for construction contracts, and with site supervisors, materials laboratory managers, and contractors to set up, and efficiently run concrete operations and related quality control and assurance programs, including effective communication of program results.
3. Work in a manner to ensure your personal safety and that of fellow employees by following company health and safety guidelines and policies.

The successful individual will have demonstrated ability to apply intensive knowledge of engineering principles and practices in the area of concrete technology and construction, to make independent decisions on engineering problems and methods, to establish work plans, work scopes and budgets, and to lead teams of engineers and construction managers. Experience should include management responsibility. Overseas experience is preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility:

Direct reports: About 10 engineers and construction personnel.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering Construction Management or Construction Engineering. Professional Engineering Registration preferred; Experience in construction of mass concrete or concrete dams is required. Minimum 10 years experience in heavy civil engineering construction management and field inspection of concrete construction including testing laboratory set-up and operation; international experience. Written and spoken English fluency.

10+ to 15 years of experience
Management Experience Required – Yes
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Relocation Assistance Available – Yes
Interview Travel Reimbursed – Yes

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Civil service pay reform to continue

The government is going ahead with a nationwide reform of civil servants’ pay that includes raising the salaries of officials in poorer regions, despite the ongoing financial crisis, a publicity official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said yesterday.

“At present, we do not have any plans to amend or postpone the scheduled reform,” the official, who did not want to be named, told China Daily.

The salary reform is aimed at regulating the allowances and subsidies of the country’s 8 million civil servants, by reducing such payments in affluent areas and boosting them in poorer regions. The changes rolled out in July 2006 and are expected to be completed next year.

Civil servants in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and in Henan, Hebei and Anhui provinces already saw their allowances raised from last month, the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

Henan provincial authorities received the green light from the State Council to raise the monthly salaries of their officials by 300 yuan ($44) each in mid-November, the newspaper reported.

The move was part of the national reform to regulate civil servants’ pay and had nothing to do with the current financial crisis affecting economies worldwide, a Henan official said.

“We made the adjustment because our civil servants have complained about their low income for a long time,” said the official, who wanted to be known by his surname Wu, with the finance department of the Henan provincial government.

“The changes have nothing to do with the financial crisis. We submitted the requisite applications last year,” Wu said.

Still, other researchers said it was not the right time to continue with the salary reform.

“The timing is not good, as the global economy is in a recession and China is facing mounting economic pressure,” Su Hainan, head of the Institute for Labor and Wage Studies, was quoted by The Economic Observer as saying on Sunday.

The government should step up efforts to fight corruption and lessen tax for companies instead of increasing civil servants’ pay, Cao Jianhai, a researcher from the Institute of Industrial Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said yesterday.

“Increasing investment on rural education as well as rural infrastructure and agriculture are also among the government’s imminent tasks,” Cao said.

Clinical Trial Leader (hl024sh)

Title: Clinical Trial Leader Based in Shanghai/Beijing
Job Description

Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
1. Accountable for the writing of clinical protocols and related documents in collaboration with the Clinical trial Team (CTT): lead the clinical trial protocol development process; contribute to the operational and scientific input given for the development of trial-related documents and processes which reside in other line functions.
2. Lead and matrix manage the global multidisciplinary CTT to ensure all trial deliverables are met according to timelines, budget, quality standards and operational procedures: chair CTT meetings (as needed), report study progress and issues to CTT; lead trial level interactions with internal line functions and external CROs
3. Function as a Lead CTL on studies for Full Development and assist in the coordination
4. of related submission documents.
5. Responsible for ordering and management of clinical trial materials, including drug supplies and CRFs
6. In collaboration with CRO management, CTT and CRAs, identify sites and manage study set-up, including responsibility for organizing and chairing the Initiation meeting
7. Support the CRA on study related questions and serve as point of contact for managing/ answering questions relating to trial procedures and subjects eligibility
8. Responsible for set up and maintenance of the Trial Master File for assigned studies.
9. Regularly update all trial information databases in order to manage accuracy of information
10. Approve for all necessary center payments as per financial agreements.
11. Lead the ongoing review of the clinical trial medical/scientific data (as needed), analysis and interpretation including the development of first interpretable results, clinical trial reports, publications and internal/ external presentations.
12. Co-ordinate pre-audit activities for nominated projects ensuring a satisfactory outcome are achieved.

Requirement:
1. Gained relevant experience (preferred at least 2 years) in Translational medicine, Clinical Research or Research Nurse experience (CRO, academic institution, hospital or industry)
2. Potential to cope with both scientific aspects and operational tasks in a multidisciplinary organization.
3. Knowledge of drug development process.
4. Capable of clear written and verbal expression of ideas, an active/proactive communicator.
5. BSc or MSc in life sciences or nursing; PhD level scientist with life sciences background preferred
6. Languages: Fluent English (oral and written), knowledge of a second language is desirable.
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