Senior Regional Engineers at Swift Networks

General Description:  The Senior Regional Engineer has to play key role in building  & maintaining Wireless Network in assigned Region - Abuja or Port Harcourt. The Engineer must have excellent wireless network rollout management skills and an indepth understanding of end-end Wireless Radio Access and Core network. The Individual should have good time management skills of delivering  projects on time and managing the available resources in optimized manner. The Senior Regional Engineer will work within the Network Project group in alliance with the Central Project, Central Network Operations and the Sales and Customer Support Departments. 

Major Purpose & Deliverables:

He/She will be mainly responsible for:

• Managing of network Rollout in assigned Region - Abuja or Port Harcourt
• Timely Execution of Project & Contingency Plans for timely completion
• Liaising 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 into consideration all present and future requirements
• Liaising with all collocation site vendors for acquisition of site for renting
• Managing of Collocation site vendors to maintain the power up time of the Base stations
• Managing of Region Engineering teams which includes both field & core support, customer engineering support teams.
• Managing 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
• Acting as a mentor to the younger engineers
• Issuing, discussing and/or implementation of recommendations for network improvement
• Carrying out of other duties that may be assigned by immediate supervisor