Job Description
Job Description
- As Manager, Regional Rollout, you will coordinate and manage all BTS and upgrade deployments across assigned region from inception to completion.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Foster a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and commitment to quality among team-members.
- Ensure adherence/ compliance with approved site design drawings received from site build contractors (SBCs).
- Approve and send Bill of Quantity (BoQ) for BTS to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for further approval.
- Prepare detailed project schedules and present to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for discussion and approval.
- Coordinate with SBCs on sites requiring reticulation works and support the Supply Chain team in search for suitable contractors.
- Give approval to SBCs to commence civil works.
- Work with the Project Management Office (PMO) team on power analyses and tower load analyses and follow up with recommendations on BTS and upgrade sites.
- Calculate detailed material and human resource requirements for projects and present to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for discussion and approval.
- Ensure sites are built in line with project schedule, budget, and specifications.
- Monitor progress of projects and assigned resources on the field according to project baselines. Highlight major and minor issues to accountable Senior Manager, Regional Deployment.
- Prepare and update daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports on projects and circulate to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment.
- Steer meetings with assigned contractors and team-members to monitor project progress and discuss solutions to problems encountered.
- Ensure successful completion of projects through ongoing collaboration with internal stakeholders across Site Acquisition (SAQ), PMO, Operations, Warehouse, and so on.
- Perform random inspections of project progress on the field.
- Monitor execution of Work in Progress (WIP) sites
- Request for power on sites during rollouts and upgrades.
- Ensure contractors are working according to company specifications.
- Ensure that all Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) documents are signed on time.
- Secure timely sign-offs on Provisional Acceptance Certificates (PACs) and
- Final Acceptance Certificates (FACs).
- Ensure all on-site snags are duly identified and fixed.
- Coordinate site handovers with other internal and external stakeholders.
- Complete documentation of projects.
- Check as-built drawings and ensure that contractors have signed off from sites.
- Promote communication between colleagues for benefit of information flow and to curb any issues that may arise.
- Prepare and submit reports to the Senior Manager, Regional Deployment on all matters relating to the unit.
- Manage relationships with partners and vendors.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Regional Deployment
Functional Competencies:
- Site Acquisition
- Rollout Management
- Site/ Infrastructure Audit
- Project Management
- Enterprise Asset Management
- Logistics Management
- Contract Management
Behavioural Competencies:
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering or related discipline.
- Professional project management certification, e.g. PMP or PRINCE2, will be an asset.
- +10 years’ relevant experience in the telecoms industry.