Pivotage Consulting - Our client, a Telecommunications Infrastructure and Wireless Service facilitator is currently seeking to grow its team by hiring qualified candidate to fill the position below:
Job Title: RF Planning Engineer
Job ref.:ANT/1129/FRER
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full Time
Career: Mid/Level Expert.
Reports to: Chief Commercial Officer.
Job Descriptions
- The RF Planning Engineer will be responsible for designing the company’s site roll-out to conform to the plan of wireless telecommunications network operators, so as to achieve the company’s revenue objectives.
- The RF Planner will also be responsible for system dimensioning for coverage and capacity including traffic analysis and coverage predictions, site identification and evaluation so as to enable the company rationalize its projected roll-out plans to telecom operators.
Job Responsibilities
- Creating and Studying RF coverage maps and GSM/WCDMA/LTE network simulations and identifying problem areas
- Troubleshooting areas with poor RF performance and recommending network changes as applicable
- Monitoring KPIs before and after configuration changes and make necessary reports' presentation
- Responsible for system integration of network BTS
- Carrying out Single Site Drive test/Cluster Drive test & data post-processing analysis
- Verify RF related site engineering drawings & site database maintenance-etc;
- Performing design criteria, system dimensioning, link budget and traffic analysis and making reports for higher management
- Performing physical and soft parameter planning
- Carrying out planning and optimization techniques for optimal site/cluster performance
- Generating RF engineering related reports (Network Accessibility, Network Congestion, Traffic Map, Single Site Verification Status, Low revenue sites project) & presentation as required
- Analyzing and ensuring proper solution for improving Radio network quality using ATOLL/similar simulation software
- Carrying out coverage tuning, new site on air and health reports generation
- Benchmarking new features such as different vendor equipment, different Antenna features and making reports for facilitate investor's awareness.
Other Duties:
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Job Qualifications
- Must have a minimum of 2 to 5 years' in similar role
- Must have a solid experience in GSM/WCDMA/LTE RF Planning and Optimization
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering with a minimum of a Second Class Honours, Upper Division (2:1)
- Knowledge of RF planning and DT tools
- Must have professional qualification: COREN certification will be an added advantage.
Job Competencies:
- Must have a good business acumen.
- Must have a good Communication and Presentation Skill.
- Must be ethical and a best practice professional.
- Must be a creative thinker.
- Must have an excellent organizational and time management skill
- Must have an industry-wide exposure
- Must have a working knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint MS Office
Application Closing Date
29th March, 2019.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (MS Word Format) to:
[email protected] mail to:
[email protected] using "RF Planning Engineer" as the subject of the mail.
Note: Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.