Senior Specialist - Radio Planning & Optimisation

Education:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication / Electrical Engineering or any other relevant degree.
  

• Project management approach such as Prince II or PMP an added advantage
  

Experience:

• 5 years experience in the area of specialisation
  

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in radio planning and Optimization which must include: 
  

• Experience across diverse OEM vendors such as ZTE, HUAWEI 
  

• 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, LTE, 5G 
  

• Project Management
  

• Consolidation of capacity requirements for 2G, 3G, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi from the business and site performance KPIs. 
  

• Consolidate national coverage requirements for 2G/3G/LTE/WIFI/5G from Marketing, Sale & Distribution, Customer Service, Radio Planning and other stakeholders for inclusion in the annual budget cycle. 
  

• Ensuring that site physical parameters are strategically positioned to meet the predetermined business targets and counter competition.
  

• Ensuring all network related regulatory and group key performance indicator targets are met through liasing with OEM and Managed Services partners. 
  

• Follow up on site rollout projects for 2G, 3G, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi to ensure that drive tests, configuration and performance checks are properly done. 
  

• Evaluation of new equipment like new BTSs, Node Bs, antennas, eNodeBs, new RRUs 
  

• Evaluation of new RAN network solutions and technologies such as Massive MIMO, OPENRAN, network sharing, spectrum sharing. 
  

• Play a supervisory role for major RAN projects such as modernization and site build in terms of the site performance 
  

• Generation of reports on 2G/3G/LTE/5G/Wi-Fi sites performance.