OSP Planning and Design Engineer at MainOne Cable Nigeria

Department: Technical
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities
The OSP Planning and Design Engineer will be responsible for the following:

• Plan, design and prepare detailed drawings for optics fibre deployment.
• Prepare detailed construction and installation drawings, while also estimating equipment, labour and material costs.
• Develop Bills of Quantity and materials for fibre deployment.
• Analyse site survey to gain in-depth knowledge of topography, social factors, and ensuring accurate measurements are taken in order to output proper design and plan for the fibre deployment.
• Liaise with both vendors and internal teams to ensure plan are effectively executed as par approved specifications.
• Maintain and keep updated network diagrams that would aid rebuild/expansion projects as well as the operations.
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date facility CAD maps.
• Direct construction work activities to ensure conformance with engineering specifications.
• Analyse all infrastructure and network plan and make judgments on cost and associated risk of implementing the plan.
• Analyse current challenges, visualize future, compare alternatives, and describes implications to make knowledgeable choices in the planning of low-level infrastructure design.
• Determine infrastructure requirements taking into consideration topology of the area.
• Attend various meetings with management, various departments, vendors, government officials to ensure company objectives are meet.
• Participate in inter-departmental planning meetings to coordinate and communicate activities related to the successful completion of projects
• Define specifications of the different network elements (such as manholes, cabinets, joint boxes, splice locations) to meet industry requirements and company objectives.
• Advise and researches new technologies and identifies areas of the company build that requires upgrade.
• Work with road constructors, residential developers and builders to determine installation requirements as well as placement of fibre cables and splitter cabinets.
• Prepare work authorisation request with drawings for securing approval for responsible authorities.
• Analyse the As-built documents to ensure all build are as par design before filing the final document.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies
Qualifications:

• B.Sc (or equivalent) in Telecommunications related field.
• Experience in the use of GIS Tools and Software.
• Years of Experience: 3-5 years

Competencies:

• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Good communication and reporting skills
• Ownership and initiatives
• Good troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Significant work experience in optical fiber networks design, GPON and DWDM technologies.
• Experience with researching, investigating, evaluating, and qualifying potential new equipment for network deployment.
• Knowledge of fiber optic transmission and transmission systems, and electrical cabling and transmission systems.
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Ability to evaluate and articulate the cost trade-offs associated with various network and circuit implementations.
• Knowledge and experience with Microsoft software applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, and Outlook.
• Ability to engage with and communicate with vendors, service providers, employees, and various business contacts in a professional and courteous manner.

Demand on the Job:

• Full dedication
• Work may require working extra hours and weekends
• Frequent travel required to project areas and job sites as follow and ensure compliance to specifications.
• Visitation to project locations to confirm vendors’ compliance to specifications.