• Application Deadline:
• Position: Optical Fibre Transport Design Manager


• Job Type Full Time , Hybrid


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 - 7 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

• This is a vital position to support design & planning of network unit and providing technical solutions for connecting cell sites and enterprise customer locations for excellent customer experience.


• This person will be interacting with the Partners’ teams’ very extensively. Robust, flexible and state of art fiber and microwave transmission network planning & delivery is the essence of the role.

Key Responsibilities

Fiber network design & planning:

• Study the new site’s & Node’s requirements and prepare connectivity plan.


• Study traffic pattern / growth and plan capacity expansion accordingly to meet the business requirement specially data growth.


• Ensure all networks are scalable and flexible to accommodate new sites / nodes, interfaces, etc.


• Monthly study the utilization of fiber network and take necessary steps to groom the traffic for effective capacity utilization and remove bottle necks.


• Closely interact with IP & Core network planning & operations team to meet the requirements of MPLS / MPBN network.

Redundancy & ASON protection design:

• Analyse and correct any frequency interference cases as & when reported.

Microwave network Design & Planning:

• Preparation of AOP & budget for capex and opex for fiber network.


• IP Network design & Planning.

Regulatory Compliance:

• Plan for fiber connectivity to all RNC, BSC, and switch locations with minimum 3 paths.


• BoQ preparations & validation.


• Preparing RFP & technical specification.

Good Technical Knowledge:

• Close interactions with internal departments like Supply Chain, Finance, deployment, and operations.


• Bandwidth and capacity planning & management.


• Project Plan preparations, progress monitoring and tracking for Fiber project.


• Day to day monitoring of KPIs of transmission network to ensure that the reliability is as good as it was planned.


• MIS for senior management.


• Regular meetings with partners.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics & communications engineering.


• Sound knowledge of fiber optics network for Mobile & Enterprise Network - Planning.


• Analytical and Presentation skills.

Required Experience & Skillset

• 5 - 7 years relevant experience in planning of transmission networks domain specially in Fiber optics.


• Logical decision-making abilities.


• Flexible and dedicated.


• Ability to innovate and deliver value to business.


• Ability to manage an outsourcing partner to effectively deliver on SLAs.


• Impeccable integrity and character.


• Go-getter.