Senior Region Engineer Needed at Swift Networks

SWIFT NETWORK is an Indigenous Internet Service Provider Company with outlets spread all over Lagos State. Our core services are the provision of high speed internet services, telephony and IP – VPN services to both residential and enterprise subscribers. We are presently seeking to fill the following position in our company.


JOB TITLE: Senior Region Engineer

Reports to: Head of Network Project

Direct Reports: Region BSS Team

Job Requirements:

General Description:
Senior Regional Engineer has to play key role in building & maintaining Wireless Network in assigned Region. The Engineer must have excellent wireless network rollout management skills. The Engineer must have understanding of end-end Wireless Radio Access and Core network. The Individual should have good time management skills of delivering the project on time and managing the available resources in optimized manner. Senior Region Engineer will work within the Network Project group in close liaison with Central Project, Central Network Operations, Sales and Customer Support Departments.
Major Purpose & Deliverables:
Senior Region Engineer will be mainly responsible for,

• Management of network Rollout in assigned Region
• Timely Execution of Project & Contingency Plans for timely completion
• Liaison with all local authorities to get required permit for network rollout
• Base station site acquisition and site built management
• Technical design of SWIFT Own Site Built by taking in to consideration all present and future requirement
• Liaison with all collocation site vendors for acquisition of site for renting
• Management of Collocation site vendors to maintain the power up time of the Base station
• Management of Region Engineering teams which includes both field & core support, customer engineering support teams.
• Management of Region network Operations to maintain 99.999% uptime of the network
• Optimization management of Deployed Network to meet Engineer KPI's.
• Performing regular health checks for Access and Core network
• Preparing daily / weekly / monthly performance reports
• Preparing BoQ / BoM for network Rollout & Operations
• Interacting with Central Core, Access and NOC departments and coming up with collaborated strategies for network evolution
• Act as a mentor for the younger engineers
• Issuing, discussing and/or implementation of recommendations for network improvement

Qualification & Qualities

• Minimum 3 year of documented experience of management of telecom Engineering services work in field of network Rollout / network operation
• Min education level required Bachelor degree in communication science or related discipline with cumulative grading equal or greater than Second class Upper division ( 2-1)
• Hands On experience of Site Built, Base station RF and Microwave installation, Core Network equipment Hardware Installation, Power Installation for Base station, Power Installation for Datacenter
• Handling of Multi-vendor Equipment Experience
• Excellent Communication & Negotiation skills
• MS-Office skills
• Ability to work independently and to build up good team relations
• Self-motivated, flexible and capable to supervise teams in field and office

NOTE: Application Closes 12:00pm, 15th December, 2014

Follow link to apply: http://e-recruiter.ng/portal/swiftng/details/3121