Engineer – Fiber To The Home & Business Plan & Design at Safaricom Kenya

Job Description

Reporting to the Manager - Fiber To The Home & Business Planning & Design, the position holder will be responsible for planning, design, FTTH and FTTB Network Infrastructure and Rollout, budgeting, database management, and preparation of project POC/RFQ documents and evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of timely and quality Transmission Solutions on Fiber and GPON technology, plans to be done as per the project schedule with the correct dimensioning of capacity thresholds, availability and reliability. 
• Delivery of resilient FTTH/B Transmission Solutions and plans to meet current, medium and long-term requirements 
• Compilation of Topology maps, schematics, Google earth routes, building entry points & floor plans in GIS formats. 
• Overall Infrastructure resources utilization such as Fibre Materials, Spares, Bandwidths, Fibre Cores, Ducts to be maintained within KPI targets as per standards document 
• Budget estimation and project prioritization to meet Business needs and CAPEX budget justifications. 
• Review of BOQs against the designs for Fiber to the Home, to the Business and to the Node (FTTx) 
• Cost reconciliation for projects from Business Case Assumptions, Change Requests and As-built status
• All the capacity and quality KPI’s to be met in accordance with Transmission target
• Accuracy of site information on the Safaricom Fibre database 
• Timely identification and mitigation of all potential Bottlenecks to guarantee uptime and Quality. 
• Acceptable standards of Transmission parameters are adopted according to the best practices. 
• New enhanced features to be implemented as per the roadmap to continuously improve network quality. 
• Planning, Reviewing and Evaluating the network performance as per own designs 
• Creation of integration and functional acceptance tests documentation for every new Systems/Products/Services
• Learn/research on new technologies/practices in fibre space · 
• Evaluate Reliability and cost effectiveness of trials introduced in the network and their ability to keep up with emerging technologies 

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering or related field
• 3 years’ experience with 1 year in a busy telecommunications environment - Involved in Planning and Design of reliable transmission systems /networks.
• In-depth understanding of Transmission infrastructure deployment life cycle 
• Knowledge in Transport/data communication planning design and optimization tools
• Experience translating Business and Customer requirements into technology requirements
• Experience defining test cases and acceptance criteria based on user requirements 
• Experience assessing the effectiveness of tests and testing tools