Specialist: Radio Planning & Optimization at Vodacom

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• To analyse network performance, do site planning and optimisation

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure optimal performance on network quality by monitoring the network statistics through the relevant tools and implementing determined corrective action
• Pro-actively analyse and recommend capacity dimensioning requirements on all network elements
• Pro-actively analyse and verify in-depth network problems by performing relevant traces 
• Investigate and rectify all network failures received from regular drive testing routes by outsourcing companys  (e.g. Umlaut)
• Conduct cluster optimisation of existing network
• Responsible for planning and optimisation of 2G/3G/LTE/5G sites (indoor, greenfield, rooftops, mini’s, macros...etc)

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• 3 years National Diploma or Degree in Electrical (light current) or Electronic Engineering or a SAQA accredited equivalent
• 3-5 years relevant experience

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Computer applications (e.g. MS Office & MAPINFO, )    
• Analysis tool (e.g. Actix)    
• GSM ,UMTS , LTE , 5G knowledge    
• Network components    
• Statistical tools    
• Current Vendor equipment