Field Engineer at MECS (Pty) Ltd

About the job
Our Client is looking for Field Engineers for all regions of South Africa: Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng (JHB and PTA), Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, North West, KZN within the Telecommunications space. Operations and Maintenance side

Purpose

• Serve as primary interface for the work output/deliverables by Contractors in ensuring sites and infrastructure are maintained and operated in the optimal and most cost-effective manner.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day supervision of contractors carrying out O&M work on sites; ensuring SLAs, OLAs, KPIs, due dates and specifications are strictly adhered to set objectives.
• Conduct spot check inspections, job completion assessments, end-to-end maintenance schedule supervision and quality assurance.
• Complete physical on-site inspections of all sites in assigned cluster within given timelines.
• Community liaison as applicable.
• Take ownership of all planned work activities on assigned sites
• Recommend new processes where needed to improve quality or on-time delivery.
• Receive diesel supply from vendor, sign off way bill and site log book.
• Ensure diesel supply to the site is adequate for every cycle and alert RM on diesel levels on any shortfall.
• Ensure diesel waybills are delivered to the regional office within stipulated time.
• Perform vendor warehouse visits at the beginning of every cycle to ensure availability of PPM materials.
• Confirm daily PPM activities in line with the validation plan using the approved checklist and give feedback to the Regional Maintenance Planner by carrying out spot checks using the PPM Live.
• Validate snag fixing and provide feedback as appropriate.
• Identify the need for a non-routine maintenance work and provide detailed information on the site status.
• Follow up with non-routine maintenance work being carried out and ensure quality and schedule compliance.
• Coordinate all site cut-over activities and escalate all RMS and Solar Solution issues on sites.
• Identify the need for asset replacement on site and present business case for the request.
• Escalate all site access/restriction issues and theft cases as appropriate.
• Perform integrated site audit on allocated sites.
• Fill an ATD per decommissioned asset highlighting count and status of assets and forward physical copy to ROM after obtaining vendor sign off.
• Sign off Job Completion Certificate (JCC).
• Report Preliminary Acceptance Testing (PAT) status on a daily basis.
• Escalate issues on site post-takeover to the ROM

General Duties

• Promote communication between colleagues for the benefit of information flow and to curb any problems that arise.
• Write and submit reports to the ROM in all matters relating to the regional unit.
• Manage relationships with partners/vendors.
• Perform other appropriate duties as requested by ROM

Functional Attributes:

• Engineering Management
• Logistics Management
• Project Management
• Network Audits
• Network Operations Management

Experience and Qualification:

• Telecommunications Engineering Degree or related discipline
• 4+ years of experience in Telecoms Operations and Maintenance