Manager - Radio Planning and Quality Technology Information at MTN

Responsibilities

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPAs)

• Special Projects: Research, investigate, test and evaluate and implement all technologies, features and processes which will result in improvement of the quality of the network and without compromising it’s profitability. 
• Customer Relations: Using people skills while responding to technical problems experienced by customers and negotiating with land-owners and management companies to acquire new site locations.
• Management and supervision of wide range of staff activities and performance.
• Communicate key business directives to the team(s) (changes in policy/managerial interventions etc.)
• Bears the responsibility to act as a manager and leader in the interests of both management and the team(s) represented.
• Capex management on regional site rollout budget.
• Managing regional strategy for network rollout.
• Identifying sites: planning the growth of the radio network considering general engineering principles, analysis & interpretation of network statistics, knowledge of market requirements & profitability. 
• Planning of sites: achieving the most effective design of RF installation which will satisfy all the demands of the market while delivering satisfactory return on investment. This requires the considerations of the cost of installation, market requirements and expected traffic, environmental management legislation and knowledge of the existing radio network. 
• Optimisation: improvements to the radio network through technical skills – made possible by detailed knowledge of RF technology features, detailed knowledge of geographical area; understanding of the role of peripheral parties (other departments within MTN and external parties such as Telkom) and the impact of their performance on network quality. Creativity and experience are essential.
• Trouble-shooting optimisation: solving network problems through knowledge-sharing, experience in radio network design and operation, detailed knowledge of GSM system design and principles, as well as vendor specific operations.
• Special projects: involvement in key technology development projects.

Qualifications

Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)

Education:

• Minimum of 3 year degree/diploma (BSC Electrical/Electronic Engineering)
• Fluent in English and language of country preferable

Experience: 

• 3 Minimum of 5 years’ experience in RF or telecommunications. GSM experience necessary with experience in supervising/managing others.
• Experience working in a medium to large organization