OSP Planning and Design Technician at Fort Knox Outsourcing Limited

Fort Knox Outsourcing Limited - Our client, 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, is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: OSP Planning and Design Technician

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Conduct Site surveys for study and planning of new FTTH deployment.
• Prepare Low Level Design of Civil and Fiber Infrastructure for
• Optical Distribution Network (ODN) deployment to cover future demands.
• FTTH Optical Distribution Network (ODN) planning, Cost estimation, Route Selection, fiber Management and Fiber Link Power Budgeting.
• Prepare detailed FTTH design drawings including duct layouts and cabling layouts.
• Preparation of BoM for FTTH OSP projects.
• Preparation of High Level project scope description.
• Preparation of fiber cabling plan and splice plans for FTTH projects.
• Review of as-built drawings with FTTH roll-out team to ensure conformity with original design.
• Planning and site selection of Central Offices (CO)
• Design of Central Offices’ civil and fiber infrastructure
• Pre-project discussions and co-ordination with FTTH roll-out team and OSP vendors.
• Joint site walk-throughs with OSP Supervisor and contractor after kickoff meetings.
• Conduct joint surveys with project team to resolve variation and change in scope issues.
• Revise designs and BOMs and send in the documents for variation or scope change approval.
• Accuracy of OSP design (measured by level of modification by Team lead required on the design before final submission to Head, Network Services Business Unit).
• Accuracy of Bill of Materials within tolerance limits.
• The percentage of time site surveys are done within schedule without un-necessary re-visits.
• Accuracy of High level Descriptions (measured by level of modification required after submission to Team Lead)
• Accuracy of Fibre Splice Plans

Qualifications & Skills

• HND in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Information Systems. However, field experience for Non- science or engineering backgrounds can be considered.
• 2+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience using CAD (Autocad, Visio) and Microsoft office software.
• Excellent communication skill.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Prioritizing work.
• Generating & maintaining accurate records.
• Outside Plant Fibre experience – site surveys, fibre laying, splicing, termination, troubleshooting.
• Ability to use fibre tools e.g optical power metre, light source and OTDR.

Salary
N221,000 per month.

Application Closing Date
29th August, 2024.