Position Summary:
Responsible for providing technical expertise for all transmission networks across Vodacom South Africa regions including; transmission planning, optimization, and performance management. Provide expert-level expertise within the transmission network domain specifically focusing on network design, network upgrades, and support of the implementation of industry best practices across the regions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform financial budgeting for OPEX and CAPEX budgets.
- Perform network audit.
- Negotiation and leadership skills are a must as being able to engage with various stakeholders internal and external.
- Ability to produce, review and approve the installation, commissioning and test specifications and formally approve network and service acceptance tests.
- Monthly Opex reporting and analysis.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced growing company.
- Understanding of the following technologies: RAN 2G, 3G, LTE, 5G.
- Extensive knowledge of lease lines, fibre planning, IP-MPLS and Sync.
- Understanding of synchronization.
- Provide opinion and technical expertise on optimizing the microwave, fibre and leased line.
- Responsible for planning and designing backhaul infrastructure and the integration of services with NMS and northbound interfaces.
- Review and assist in the creation of various reports of KPIs and report to the management.
- Network planning and design experience on fibre, microwave and leased line solutions.
- Generate network reports.
What you’ll have:
- Strong understanding of telecommunication networks and standards.
- 5 years of experience in transmission for mobile radio networks and associated technical investigations, research, and fault-finding.
- Experience of using network planning tools.
- 8+ years in transmission network planning, optimization, and performance management/improvement.
- 3-year Degree/Diploma/degree in electrical engineering or computer sciences.
- 5 years of exposure to GSM, UMTS, and LTE mobile telecommunication technologies.
- Matric/ Grade 12 is essential.
- 8+ years in the telecommunications industry.