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Job Title:  Senior Consultant– Radio Planning & Optimization

Organisation: MTN Uganda

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Senior Manager Network Planning and Engineering

 

About the Company:

MTN Uganda is a subsidiary of MTN Group, a multinational Telco operating in Africa and Middle East, with over 280milllion subscribers, making it the largest in Africa

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

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.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

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

 

Note: 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.

 

How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join MTN Uganda in this capacity should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 14th October 2024

 

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