After nine years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 10.8 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. With revenues of US$2.2 billion, the company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.
Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.
In 2004, Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean. The show has spanned the Eastern Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the top-rated shows.
Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean and has recently acquired a license in French Polynesia.
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Fonctions
Primary objective of the job
Network Planning and design for the transmission Backhaul. Responsibility will include installation and commissioning for transmission equipments
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Analysis of the survey results and recommendations produced by the Transmission Planners and Survey Engineers for the connection of new radio base stations BS to the microwave transmission access network
2. Provision of link budgets, quality and availability calculations, diversity protection, frequency planning, traffic analysis, routing and equipment allocation for new microwave links.
3. Incorporation of new microwave links in the backhaul transmission network for new base station sites as well as for backbone transmission links.
4. Carry out on a recurring basis the optimization of the transmission network design to ensure the optimum reliability and availability. This necessitates extensive studies with regards to frequency planning and interference, capacity utilization, also changes in the network topology.
5. Ensure the contractor receives a complete set of documentation for all new or changes to existing backhaul links. (This is a very important prerequisite prior to the microwave links being installed as the documentation contains all relevant data).
6. In Depth knowledge of IP technology embedded with transmission.
7. Provide support to Operations and maintenance for transmission troubleshooting as and when required.
8. Ensuring accurate records related to the overall transmission network are regularly maintained and presented in the form of a database.
Qualifications Requises
Academic qualifications and experience required for the job
• Degree in telecommunications / electronics engineering or equivalent qualification
• Minimum of two years (degreed) or six years (not degreed) experience in a telecommunications environment, preferably in the mobile telecommunications industry.
• A thorough practical and theoretical knowledge of microwave engineering and network design, also a proven record in carrying out IP technology.
• A minimum of two years practical experience as a microwave installation engineer and the ability to carry out associated tasks such as traffic routing, analyzing problems and providing solutions for their rectification
Functional Skills
• A high level of competency with the computer software Pathloss (or similar) which is used for microwave link engineering and network design.
• Have good analytical aptitude when problems in the network design are encountered and the ability to solve these problems.
• Good communications skills with colleagues and associates in work related disciplines.
