Head, Planning & Design at ipNX Nigeria Limited

ipNX is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology companies, serving a multitude of needs across enterprises, small businesses and residents with innovative, world-class services. Our ability to identify, satisfy and exceed today’s market needs is a testament to over a decade of experience, our commitment, drive and passion realized through highly skilled and well seasoned professionals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Planning & Design

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Primarily responsible for delivering outside plant infrastructure plans and designs that are detailed, informative and meets the requirements and purposes of various stakeholders both internal and external - in terms capacity, capability, resilience and meeting varied regulations.
• Contributes to vendor selection, proof of concept designs, network architecture reviews and any other initiatives of the division as directed by the Head, Infrastructure Planning and Quality.
• This role ensures high levels of customer satisfaction and operational excellence during all levels of engagements with customers and stakeholders, proactively providing support and input.

Educational Qualifications & Functional Skills

• Degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering / Communications Engineering/ Computer Engineering and other related disciplines.
• A Master’s Degree in Engineering / MBA would be an added advantage.
• A CFOT with emphasis on FTTH Technologies certification is required. Other certifications in networking and project management would be an added advantage.
• Knowledge or experience with GPON, FTTH and transmission technologies.
• Conversant with planning tools (GIS/MapInfo, CAD tools etc)
• Knowledge or experience of programming and database applications like Python and SQL would be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Work Experience:

• At least 10 years experience within the telecoms space.
• Experience in fiber outside plant (OSP) planning and design lifecycle.
• Should be conversant with building and maintaining fibre networks
• Competent in the use of computer productivity tools.
• Conversant with the use of GIS and

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.