Senior Specialist, Non-Routine Maintenance & Management at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Non-Routine Maintenance & Management

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Operations

Job Description

• As Senior Specialist, Non-Routine Maintenance you will oversee and coordinate all non- routine maintenance activities on sites nationwide, improve network failure rate and availability by ensuring maximum uptime of all passive equipment through timely and quality maintenance activities.
• Additionally, you will provide leadership to the regional maintenance planners and coordinate their activities.

Key Roles & Responsibilities.

• Review the preventive maintenance report and extract non-routine work and follow up for closure.
• Identify if the non-routine is aligned with the scope of the vendors based on the established contract scope.
• Provide clear plan for proactive preventive non-routine maintenance that will support in extending the asset life cycle.
• Agree on the scope of work of all non-routine before approvals.
• Validate the non-routine cost with Supply chain team before approval.
• Coordinate with the vendors maintenance team to ensure the non-routines are reported and closed on time as per the SLA/commitment on ttimeline.
• Track weekly non-routine maintenance plan achievement as against what has been planned by vendors.
• Trigger step-in process for sites that  non-routine is part of the vendor scope and make sure alignment on scope of work is done before mobilization
• Validate the closure of the non-routine with the regional team before processing payment.
• Follow up with the vendors to submit PFI to facilitate purchase requests by the technical finance team
• Coordinate the PR-PO process until payment is closed.
• Work within the assigned budget for non-routine maintenance
• Evaluate the performance of the site after the non-routine maintenance has been concluded.
• Enforce vendor compliance to set standards and policy.
• Evaluate vendor monthly performance on non-routine work
• Support in facilitating access REFwhere required
• Ensure HSE procedure is adhered to during the non-routine maintenance 
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Associate Director, Vendor Management & Operational Governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering.
• +7-10 years’ cognate experience in telecoms operations & maintenance

Functional Competencies:

• Engineering Management
• Network Performance Analysis/ Reporting
• Network Monitoring/ Availability/ Service Uptime Management
• Problem Solving
• Vendor Management
• Project Management

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

Application Closing Date
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