RF and Microwave Design Specialist at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer’s needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: RF and Microwave Design Specialist

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Permanent

Key Accountabilities

Support the National Broadband Wireless access (BWA) and point to point (PTP) networks with emphasis on uptime.
Design Customer access RF / BWA links, ensuring designs meet both network and client requirements.
Preparation of path analysis diagram, installation manuals and all other documents required in the installation of customer access circuits (BWA & PTP).
Provide 2nd Level support for the company Microwave network.
Work with the Network operations and engineering teams in the development of Vendor certification process and procedure.
Continuous improvement of prepared technical documents for the network in Nigeria.
Produce Diagrams explaining Design choices; network Costs, BoQ, mast height request and support bids or proposals when required.
Interface with the network engineering transmission team for inter-related assignments.
Manage and ensure all microwave circuits are designed according to the VBN product catalogue and all other company’s’ technical policies.
Perform regular audit of the network to determine the state of all installed microwave elements.
Assist in capacity optimization, transmission planning and frequency allocation.
Support the Network Support team as required.

Communications and Work Relationships:

Reporting to: Senior Manager, Network Operations
Project Manager Internal: All stakeholders
External: Customer, Vendors, OEM’s

Objectives/KPI:

Ensure that all assigned tickets are treated within the stipulated OLA.
Ensure that all installation manuals (IMs) issued to the project manager (PM) and field installation teams are done accurately with no errors.
Ensure that all RF and Path analysis carried out have no errors
Provide high level support for all BWA and PTP installation done on the network.
Ensure data accuracy and maintenance of all planning tools used in RF analysis.
Ensure all site survey documents are properly analysed.
Academic Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience required.
Experience: with 3-5 years’ post NYSC experience especially in a network support or field operations function.

Key Skills & Competencies:

Good technical reporting skills.e.g. usage of Microsoft Visio, Excel and word etc.
Sound operational experience with a minimum of 5 years working as a field operation engineer or network operation centre engineer.
Familiarity with network planning tools like Google Earth, ATDI and other RF planning tools.
Familiarity with Network access elements e.g. Microwave and millimetre-wave Radios (SAF, Ceragon, NEC, Radwin, Proxim, SIKLU) etc.
Desktop research skills, a good understanding of the concept of trade-off during design and an ability to work with little or no supervision.
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate customer requirement into technical installation documents.
Ability to work in fast-paced, global and collaborative environment.
Big picture thinking coupled with a strong focus on details, processes and documentation.
Multitasking ability and ability to work with little or no supervision.
Organizational skills.