Senior Specialist, Non-Routine Maintenance & Management at IHS Towers

Job Description

As Senior Specialist, Non-Routine Maintenance you will oversee and coordinate all non- routine maintenance activities on sites nationwide, improve network failure rate and availability by ensuring maximum uptime of all passive equipment through timely and quality maintenance activities. Additionally, you will provide leadership to the regional maintenance planners and coordinate their activities.

Key Roles & Responsibilities.

• Review the preventive maintenance report and extract non-routine work and follow up for closure.
• Identify if the non-routine is aligned with the scope of the vendors based on the established contract scope.
•  Provide clear plan for proactive preventive non-routine maintenance that will support in extending the asset life cycle.
• Agree on the scope of work of all non-routine before approvals.
•  Validate the non-routine cost with Supply chain team before approval.
•  Coordinate with the vendors maintenance team to ensure the non-routines are reported and closed on time as per the SLA/commitment on ttimeline.
•  Track weekly non-routine maintenance plan achievement as against what has been planned by vendors.
•  Trigger step-in process for sites that  non-routine is part of the vendor scope and make sure alignment on scope of work is done before mobilization
•  Validate the closure of the non-routine with the regional team before processing payment.
•  Follow up with the vendors to submit PFI to facilitate purchase requests by the technical finance team
• Coordinate the PR-PO process until payment is closed.
•   Work within the assigned budget for non-routine maintenance
•  Evaluate the performance of the site after the non-routine maintenance has been concluded.
• Enforce vendor compliance to set standards and policy.
•  Evaluate vendor monthly performance on non-routine work
•  Support in facilitating access REFwhere required
•  Ensure HSE procedure is adhered to during the non-routine maintenance 
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Associate Director, Vendor Management & Operational Governance.

Functional Competencies:

• Engineering Management
• Network Performance Analysis/ Reporting
• Network Monitoring/ Availability/ Service Uptime Management
• Problem Solving
• Vendor Management
• Project Management

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering.
• +7-10 years’ cognate experience in telecoms operations & maintenance