JOB DESCRIPTION
MTN Uganda Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is seeking to recruit a competent individual to fill the following Position.
Job Title: Senior Consultant– Radio Planning & Optimization
Reporting to: Senior Manager Network Planning and Engineering
Division – Technology
No. of Vacancies: 1 .
Main Job Functions:
- Managing the RAN and Transport sections for planning and Optimization.
- Consolidation of capacity requirements (Network Dimensioning) for 2G, 3G, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi from the business and site performance KPIs.
- Consolidation of capacity requirements for Microwave Transport network
- Consolidate national coverage requirements for 2G/3G/LTE/WIMAX/WIFI/5G from Marketing, Sale & Distribution, Customer Service, Radio Planning, Transmission planning and other stakeholders for inclusion in the annual budget cycle.
- Ensuring all network related regulatory and group key performance indicator targets are met through liaising with OEM and Managed Services partners
- Project execution in the Radio and Transmission network
- Conducting consistency parameter checks on Radio and Transport network.
- Acting as interface between Technology and Commercial Regional structure.
- Ringfencing MTN Uganda leadership on Network NPS and customer experience.
- Developing, Managing & reviewing the results of all defined radio and transmission Optimization procedures, preparing the optimization processes for the workflow, weekly reports, templates, tracking database, etc as per MTN Group Technology standard.
- Follow up on site rollout projects for 2G, 3G, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi to ensure that drive tests, configuration and performance checks are properly done.
- Evaluation of new RAN network solutions and technologies such as OPENRAN, network sharing, re-farming, spectrum sharing.
- Play a supervisory role for major RAN projects such as modernization and site build in terms of the site performance
- Champion roll-out of new technologies e.g 5G and its relevant use cases.
- Vendor management for Managed services for Radio Access Network and Transmission.
Education:
- Bachelors’ degree from a recognized University in any of these fields; Electrical / Telecommunications Engineering
- Project management approach such as Prince II or PMBOK an added advantage
Experience:
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in radio planning and optimization which must include:
- Experience across diverse OEM vendors such as ZTE, HUAWEI, ERICSSON
- Experience working with subcontractors to deliver on assigned works
- Experience working with radio planning tools such as ASSET, MAPINFO, google earth
- Strong understanding of different radio network configurations for 2G, 3G, WIFI, WIMAX, LTE and the microwave transmission network.
- Project Management
Skills/Competencies:
- Radio Access Network Design, Planning, and implementation training (2G,3G,4G,5G, WIMAX)
- Survey skills
- Project management skills
- Vendor management skills – OEM Vendors
- GSM Systems Survey
- WCDMA Capacity Assessment and Improvement Solution
- LTE Network Planning, Design and Dimensioning
- Advanced Cell Planning Training – Small cell, macro cell, pico cells
- Advanced Planning Principles
- Defensive driving skills
- Agile, Design Thinking, Scrum
- Supervisory training
- Data analytics training
Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
In compliance to the Data Protection & Privacy Laws of Uganda, MTN Uganda will use your application documents for purposes for which they were intended for.
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