Engineer – Fiber To The Home & Business Plan & Design Job
| Location | NAIROBI, Kenya |
| Date Posted | March 24, 2025 |
| Category |
Engineering
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| Currency | KES |
Description
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.
Responsibilities
ey 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 assessng the effectiveness of tets and testing tools
Applying Instructions
eporting 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
Responsibilities
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
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
About Us
We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021. We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000. He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.
About the Team
We are the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects. To achieve all this, we are ever-reliant on our competent and dependable staff who make it possible for us to achieve greater heights for our customers.