Job Description

Job Title: Metro Capacity & Optimization Planning Engineer

Reports To: Manager- Metro Capacity & Optimization Planning

Band: H

Overall Purpose: The job holder is responsible for Metro Fibre capacity planning, design and optimization to support both Internal and External Customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage current and potential customers to understand demand on Metro fibre for the coming 2 fibre connectivity requirements within Safaricom


• Forecast fibre capacity requirements both for the short and medium term


• Ensure fibre networks are designed and deployed to agreed standards


• Engage Vendors/Contractors in the planning and design of optimal metro networks to support customer requirements


• Release metro network plans to cater for the next 1-2 years.


• Develop and seek approval of efficient design methodology and tools for fibre networks to ensure high availability and cost efficiency in Maintenance


• Drive innovation in fibre design, deployment and optimization in line with the best practices worldwide


• Develop and maintain the standards and processes to be used in fibre deployment and optimization


• Enforce standards in the materials used in networks deployment to ensure optimum QOS and network lifespan


• Maintain deployment standards that ensure high availability and resiliency


• OHS standards enforcement during deployment of fibre networks in conjunction with other stakeholders


• Share Fibre network footprint with customer departments within technology and business units to enable them to integrate other network elements and enable them to commercialize the fibre network


• TCO analysis for Major CAPEX investments to ensure that it is in line with CAPEX strategy in the business.


• Drive OPEX Savings initiatives

Key performance indicators:

• Engage with Stakeholder to develop annual fibre optimization requirements which are factored into Budget


• Plan fibre networks to meet the 1-year and 2-year stretch business needs


• Support fibre deployment strategy for integration to future Safaricom requirements.


• Input Fibre strategy into the overall Technology Roadmap


• Timely planning of metro fibre network


• Expenditure prioritization in line with technology strategy.


• Process are reviewed within company agreed timeframes to improve efficiencies as per baseline standards


• Enforce the adoption of Internal Planning and design Standards by vendors & service providers in any works.

Relationship(s): All Technology Departments, Enterprise Business Unit, Facilities Department

Direct Reports: Contractor Planners

Education & Experience:

• First Degree in Engineering with a strong fibre telecoms content.


• 5 year experience in GIS based fibre network design and at least one year in fibre projects deployment


• Familiar with ROW acquisition process


• AutoCAD proficiency


• Certifications in Project Management, will be an added advantage

Business Competencies:

Working With Others

• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction


• Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make


• Communicates simply


• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively


• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks

Operational Excellence

• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity


• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement


• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end


• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems

Creativity and Innovation

• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems


• Takes risks and pushes what is possible


• Experiments with unorthodox approaches

Business Know-how

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust


• Balances current and future needs


• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business


• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards

Working With Change

• Responds flexibly to changing situations


• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance


• Project and Programme Management


• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit


• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies


• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues

Functional Competencies:

Architecture and Design

• Translates business and customer requirements into technology requirements


• Defines architecture and design of systems and solutions to meet current and future business needs

Service and solution development

• Develops systems, services and solutions to agreed specifications

Testing and Evaluation

• Defines test cases and acceptance criteria based on user requirements Reports and interprets test results Assesses the effectiveness of tests and testing tools

Implementation and integration

• Installs, configures, integrates and optimises systems, services and solutions

System, Service and Information Security

• Implements best practice security measures to ensure the integrity and continuity of systems, services and information Monitors security compliance

Optimisation

• Monitors systems and services to identify performance issues


• Diagnoses problems to clarify faults and recommend solutions


• Restores systems and services to normal operation


• Performs routine and non-routine maintenance to keep systems and services running


• Takes action to prevent and minimise the impact of incidents, and improve reliability

Working with partners

• Works effectively with suppliers and partners to influence their plans and maximise value delivery from the relationship.

Financial Responsibility

Responsibility including

• Planning for CAPEX spend


• Project planning around CAPEX items


• CAPEX monitoring


• Opex Monitoring & reporting

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your cell phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role, clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below by 21st February/2022.

info@techsavanna.technology

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