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Job Summary

• We are seeking a Construction Procurement Engineer to play a critical role in the successful delivery of large-scale construction projects across Nigeria.
• This position offers the opportunity to work closely with international project teams, suppliers, subcontractors, and site operations to ensure materials, equipment, and services are procured efficiently, cost-effectively, and on schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate procurement requirements with project teams and manage order follow-up from request through delivery and commissioning.
• Source and purchase local construction materials, equipment, and services in line with company procedures.
• Review supplier quotations, technical documentation, pricing, and delivery schedules.
• Monitor procurement activities against project budgets, cost controls, and timelines.
• Ensure subcontractors procure approved materials and equipment that comply with project specifications.
• Manage purchase orders, approvals, supplier records, receipts, and invoice matching through Coupa.
• Maintain complete procurement documentation and audit-ready records.
• Identify procurement risks related to quality, lead times, logistics, and supplier performance and proactively drive solutions.
• Produce procurement status reports and support continuous process improvement initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in procurement, purchasing, or supply chain management within the construction, infrastructure, or EPC sector.
• Proven experience procuring construction materials, equipment, and services.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, supplier management, purchase orders, delivery tracking, invoice verification, and cost control.
• Experience working with procurement systems such as Coupa or similar ERP/procurement platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English.

Salary
Open.

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Key Responsibilities

• Network strategy & roadmap: define the IP and transmission strategy, target architecture, technology roadmap and investment priorities aligned with subscriber growth, enterprise demand and geographic expansion.
• IP network architecture: design and govern carrier-grade IP/MPLS infrastructure across core, aggregation, edge and access domains, including routing, switching, QoS, traffic engineering, IPv4/IPv6 and segmentation.
• Transmission architecture; design and manage metro and long-haul optical networks, including DWDM, OTN, SDH where applicable, dark fibre, leased capacity and protected transmission paths.
• Internet, peering & interconnection: manage upstream transit, IX peering, private interconnection, content connectivity and carrier relationships to optimize cost, latency, resilience and customer experience.
• Capacity planning:  forecast IP traffic, backbone utilization, wavelengths, ports and international bandwidth, ensuring upgrades are completed ahead of congestion.
• Network deployment: oversee design, procurement, staging, installation, configuration, integration, testing, commissioning and acceptance of IP and transmission infrastructure.
• High availability & resilience: implement redundancy, route diversity, protection mechanisms, failover designs and disaster recovery capabilities across critical paths and nodes.
• Operational performance: ensure 24/7 monitoring and performance management with effective thresholds, dashboards, alarms and escalation procedures.
• Incident & problem management: lead major incident response, fault isolation and restoration, root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
• Service provisioning: ensure residential, enterprise, wholesale and internal services are provisioned accurately and in line with bandwidth, routing, QoS, security and resilience requirements.
• Enterprise solution support: support Presales and Commercial teams with DIA, IP transit, L2/L3 VPN, SD-WAN underlay, cloud connectivity and protected link designs.
• Network security: implement routing security, DDoS protection, secure management, configuration hardening, logging, access controls and vulnerability remediation with cybersecurity teams.
• Engineering governance: establish standards, approved designs, naming conventions, configuration templates, change controls and documentation requirements.
• NOC & field support: provide second- and third-level escalation and coordinate alarms, outages, maintenance and restoration with NOC and field teams.
• Maintenance & change management: authorize preventive maintenance, upgrades, migrations, software updates and emergency interventions while minimizing customer impact.
• Vendor & carrier management:  manage equipment vendors, fibre providers, carriers and service providers against contracts, warranties, delivery commitments and SLAs.
• Financial management: prepare and control IP and transmission CapEx and OpEx budgets, validate requirements, optimize unit costs and track commitments.
• Asset & lifecycle management: maintain visibility of network assets, licences, cards, optics, spares, support contracts and obsolescence risks.
• Team leadership: lead, coach and develop the IP and Transmission Engineers, allocate priorities, set objectives, review performance and strengthen technical capability.
• Cross-functional coordination: work with Network Design, FTTx Deployment, IT, NOC, Customer Experience, Commercial, Finance, Procurement and PMO teams.
• Regulatory compliance: ensure interconnection, IP addressing, lawful requirements and applicable telecom regulatory obligations are respected.
• Documentation & reporting: maintain network diagrams, capacity reports, configurations, circuit records, acceptance packs, incident reports and management dashboards.
• Continuous improvement:  drive automation, telemetry, configuration compliance and operational analytics to improve reliability and efficiency.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field; a Master degree is an advantage.
• At least 8 years of progressive experience in IP, backbone or transmission engineering within a telecom operator, ISP, carrier or large service-provider environment.
• At least 3 years of team leadership, technical management or senior engineering responsibility.
• Deep knowledge of BGP, OSPF or IS-IS, MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs, QoS, IPv4/IPv6, high availability and traffic engineering.
• Strong experience with DWDM, OTN and metro or long-haul fibre systems; SDH experience is useful where legacy networks remain.
• Experience managing transit, IX peering, carrier interconnection, dark fibre, leased circuits and diverse backbone paths.
• Hands-on familiarity with Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, Ciena or equivalent carrier-grade platforms.
• Knowledge of SNMP, telemetry, syslog, NetFlow, performance dashboards and configuration management.
• Proven ability to plan capacity, prepare specifications and BoQs, evaluate vendors and deliver network projects through commissioning and handover.
• Experience leading major incidents, root cause analysis, maintenance windows and change governance.
• Good understanding of DDoS mitigation, secure device management, routing security and privileged access controls.
• Commercial and financial awareness covering CapEx, OpEx, carrier cost optimization, negotiation and SLA management.
• Strong leadership, analytical, communication, reporting and stakeholder management skills.
• Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, Nokia NRS, Huawei HCIP/HCIE, PMP or ITIL are advantages.
• Fluent English required; local market languages are an advantage.
• Availability for major incident escalation, planned maintenance outside normal hours and travel to network sites.

Success Will Be Measured By:

• IP and transmission network availability meeting approved service targets.
• Capacity maintained ahead of demand with minimal congestion-related degradation.
• Mean Time to Detect and Mean Time to Repair for critical incidents, with root causes closed.
• Network expansions, upgrades and migrations delivered on time, within budget and to acceptance standards.
• Compliance with enterprise and wholesale SLAs for latency, packet loss, jitter, availability and bandwidth.
• Optimization of transit, peering, leased capacity, support and transmission costs.
• Accuracy, security and standardization of configurations, network records and circuit documentation.
• Effectiveness of redundancy, failover tests, route diversity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Vendor and carrier performance against agreed SLAs.
• Timely and accurate service provisioning with low configuration-related incidents.
• Compliance with change, cybersecurity, regulatory and engineering standards.
• Performance and technical development of the IP and Transmission Engineering team.