Thursday, June 30, 2011

Vacancy: Access Transmission Project Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 3-6 months (extendable)



Must be eligible to work in Europe 


Responsibilities:
• Responsible for ensuring the integration and acceptance to Operations is carried out in a controlled manner and has the correct processes in place to ensure operations targets and KPIs are maintained. 
• Responsible for inter-working with Access Transmission Team Leaders and Project teams within Ericsson to determine the responsible delivery of new projects (I.e network enhancements, expansions or reductions) 
• Contribute ideas for improvement and optimisation in all areas of Ethernet delivery 
• In conjunction with the Back Office Team Leaders ensure the project has the required technical tools and documentation to complete required tasks (SW, NMS access, CLI Scripts, processes, TTO access and training) 
• Have appropriate skills to support the MW Ethernet network to a 2nd line level for fault resolution and provisioning



Requirements:
• Technical experience of Mini-Link TN and Siae Al series MW and NMS SoM, NMS5UX and Nortel Passport/MDM/MDP in an Operational or Development Organisation 
• Broad technical appreciation of Nortel and Alcatel Transmission, ATM and Ethernet technologies and their applications in a mobile operator environment 
• Appreciation of the importance of change management in an Operational Environment 
• Ability to lead, direct and devise tactical alternatives to problems 
• Be able to reconcile diverse requirements and gain consensus 
• Should be able to take ownership and undertake critical service decisions under considerable operational pressures 
• Strong team player 
• Strong communication, interpersonal and management skills 
• HNC/HND 
• Appropriate industry standard Telecommunication qualification in Access and ATM



Email your CV to ofox@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: MSC MGW APZ APG Integration Engineer :: Central America

Location: Caribbean 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 2 months (extendable)



Must be fluent in English
Spanish is an advantage


Email your CV to eguzman@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Power & Cabinet Solution Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 2 months



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Requirements:
• Be familiar with DC Power Supply requirements, application scenarios in DT 
• Know the delivery & installation process and regular standards in DT power supply area 
• Be familiar with PSU and Cabinet design, know products from Eltek-Valere, Delta and Benning well 
• Capable to find the best Power & Cabinet solution for DT



Email your CV to zxie@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Site Design Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 3-6 months (extendable)



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Responsibilities:
• To provide all site design strategies and installation guidelines for the client 
• Subjects include Antenna exclusion zones, Tower details, Transmission details, Feeder rigging details, Civil works, Power supply, Earthing, Lightning protection, Climbing solutions Generators, Antenna details 
• Attend meetings within with Client to support the Design function 
• Ensuring equipment design and process documentation has controlled updates and is stored in the appropriate secured areas 
• Conduct a review of all existing site designs (including antennas, MHA’s, Tower, rigging etc) and produce a set of guidelines to ensure the consolidation programme can take place 
• Ensure compliance (including Third Party Contractor compliance) with all Health & Safety, CDM, ICNIRP and any other legislative requirements applicable to on site work, and ongoing auditing of these requirements 
• Perform reporting routines as required by the project and line management 
• Requires up to date working at height / climbing certifications



Please email your CV to rogunwumiju@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Customer Project Manager :: Africa

Location: Sub Saharan Africa 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 6 months



Job Description: 
• MTN SA Packet Switch Programme 
• The Customer Project Manager is accountable for all activities in the project management model 
• Approve costs in the project within the budget 
• Approve scope, time and cost changes to the project plans that do not affect the project baselines 
• Redefine project strategies and implement corrective actions as needed to bring the project performance back to the original 
• Access information necessary for carrying out tasks 
• Decide on any organizational changes within the project 
• Escalate problems to the Sponsor, the services manager and Steering Group 
• Decide on the best options for risk avoidance/mitigation 
• 5 yrs exp in the implementation of Packet Core Switching projects 
• Track record of managing previous Packet Core



Email your CVto awillshere@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Senior Transmission Engineer :: Middle East

Location: Middle East 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 2 months (extendable)



Must have experience with on NEC, Alcatel Lucent & HS area with Fault & configuration management skills


Email your CV to ashafique@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Siemens GSM RF Planning and Optimization :: APAC

Location: Asia Pacific 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 6 months (extendable)



Job Description:
• Familiar with Siemens GSM equipment 
• More than 5 years experience for GSM optimization



Email your CV to asu@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: 2G/3G RNO Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 6 months (extendable)



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Job description:
• 3-5 years experience in 2G / 3G optimization of RAN networks 
• Huawei experience a plus 
• Network performance monitoring of RAN 2G & 3G network, troubleshoot worst performing cells 
• Must be able to analyze customer complaints related to network performance and take required actions to fix



Email your CV to zxie@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Project Manager :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 6 months



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Responsibilities:
• Act as dedicated interface to regional customer project manager to keep good progress 
• Gather all required network design and engineering documents as well as site related information (e.g. site survey reports, specifications etc) from Network Planning departments 
• Responsible to develop a project plan and responsible for project delivery accordance to the defined project objectives defined 
• Responsible to follow up and gather complete and accurate project related information 
• Distribute all necessary project related information immediately to the appropriate receivers 
• Ensure that the contractual obligations of I&C Partners will be fulfilled 
• Arrange, manage and supervise all site specific installation and commissioning activities performed by assigned I&C partners 
• Responsible and liable to handover completely installed, commissioned, tested, measured, integrated and documented sites to customer for acceptance according to internal procedures and contractual obligations 
• Responsible and liable to receive a written confirmation that the declaration of handover for acceptance (BzA) from customer 5 working days after declaration was submitted to customer 
• Handover I&C check reports, site documentations and signed customer BzA declaration to i program manager 48 hours after received from customer 
• Responsible and liable to receive a final acceptance certificate (FAC) from customer within 45 working days after BzA declaration was submitted to customer 
• In any case deficiencies were claimed by customer, shall be responsible and liable to arrange, manage and supervise all site specific improvement activities performed by assigned I&C partners to achieve final acceptance according to contractual agreements 
• Responsible for all the Safety and Quality at site in accordance with the local laws and directives/standards 
• Submit regularly concerned management report to program manager and attend internal and customer meetings as requested



Email your CV to zxie@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Network Planning & Optimization Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 3 months (extendable)



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Job details:
• Network Planning & Optimization WCDMA 
• Network Planning & Optimization Engineer, Radio GSM/EDGE 
• Experience in the following required: IPD, TEMS tools, PrOptima, Atoll, INMS, MagPerformance, NetAct Traffica, NetAct Manager FE RO, NetAct CM tools, NetAct Monitoring tools, NetAct PM tools, NetAct Reporting Suite, Omnix, AmDocs and Cramer 
• Design, Deployment, optimisation and monitoring of 2G/3G/U900 sites for special events 
• 2G/3G Site deployment and optimisation 
• 2G radio optimisation, including Frequency and 2G neighbour planning 
• 3G radio optimisation, including scrambling code planning and 3G neighbour planning 
• 2G and 3G radio troubleshooting 
• 2G/3G drive test analysis



Email your CV to akolomiets@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Senior Quality Managers :: APAC

Location: Asia Pacific 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: Permanent



Job details:
• Understand the corporation stratagem and service strategy 
• Understand macroscopical marketing environment 
• Customer Service Requirement and Competitor Service Strategy 
• Be familiar with the industry best practice 
• Constitute Quality Management Strategy and System for Project Delivery accordingly 
• Responsible for quality culture and quality consciousness set up 
• Have strong influence power especially for high level manager and business department 
• Responsible for project quality management about engineering delivery ensure the delivery quality meet the customer requirements 
• Including but not limited in quality management methodology exploitation and Practice 
• Quality management ability training and development 
• Quality Management IT Tools Planning and Development 
• Major project quality monitoring 
• Project quality site audit and assessment, project quality data and problem management 
• Responsible for customer satisfaction management in engineering quality delivery 
• Set up and keep in move in Customer satisfaction management methodology 
• Solve the problem in customer satisfaction and improve it 
• Responsible for EHS management in delivery project 
• Set up and keep in move in EHS management system 
• Improve the EHS management ability 
• Ensure the delivery project EHS meet the requirement of Customer 
• Quality Management System and Methods Development and Promotion 
• Bachelor degree or above, more than 10 years the large-scale project quality management experience in telecommunications 
• Familiar with quality management concepts, processes and methods; with practical experience in promoting 
• Good work initiative and sense of teamwork, good communication skills and ability to execute
• Adapt to frequent overseas business travel and permanent overseas work 
• English as working language; overseas work experience is preferred



Email your CV to asu@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Field Engineer :: Europe

Location: Europe 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 3-6 months (extendable)



Must be eligible to work in Europe


Responsibilities:
• Carryout reactive and proactive maintenance on multi-customer, multi technology networks, achieving agreed performance targets 
• Carryout project based on site installation, commissioning and integration activities across multi-customer, multi technology networks achieving agreed performance targets 
• Work individually, as part of the FSO and wider teams to achieve right first time resolution of work within customer SLA’s without compromising safe working practices 
• Carry out the field related installation, commissioning and integration activities associated with agreed FSO project work 
• Assist in the development and review of FSO processes and procedures with a view to maximise efficiency 
• Keep diligent records and accurately update both internal FSO and Customer systems where necessary 
• Undertake personal development in order to maximize effectiveness



Requirements:
• Flexibility in approach to working hours will be required due to both spikes in workload and operational requirement to support reactive and planned work requests out of core shift hours 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Ericsson, Nortel and Nokia RBS 2G/3G/RNC product 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the P-Com, Nokia, Nortel, NEC, DMC, Siae, Ericsson Microwave product families 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Ericsson AXE product families 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on 2G BSC and Transcoder product families (MBNL and Vf) 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Nortel 2G BSC and Transcoder product families (MBNL) 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Nokia 2G BSC and Transcoder product families 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Switch and Field DC power systems: ETL K86/K3, EMERSON-FEN1X, EMERSON-ROBUST ACTURA, Invensys (predominantly maintenance activity) 
• Experience of installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance activity on the Core transport systems ie DWDM, Daccs, Passport platforms, IP and ATM router products 
• Experience of working at heights and tower rescue 
• HND or equivalent in relevant engineering discipline



Email your CV to dwu@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy: Node B Engineer :: USA

Location: USA 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: 6 months



Responsibilities:
• Provide Engineering support for ex Nokia 3G Node B radio sub system during RAN deployment , Care Projects, Ni Projects, FOA and LAB Support , Care phase and Operation support 
• Commissioning, integrating, System verification & acceptance and troubleshooting for 3G ex-Nokia Node B Network Element 
• Develop and maintain Node B project competence, process, and documents for network deployment 
• Provide Project technical support for troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalations from project and overall responsible for the 3G RAN network element technical Issue handling 
• Worked as Project Technical Help-Desk function, Coordinate actions and investigation of technical Issues between Customer, regional care management, tier2/tier3/ Product Line support teams 
• Participate in pilot, FOA, SW/ CD deployment, Software and new feature verification, MOP generation as well as test case creation- execution 
• Provide support to customers for operations and maintenance of RAN Network elements including competence transfer to customer operations teams for local and remote operations and maintenance tasks 
• Serve as local customer interface and coordinate communication for services and issues between customer market teams and service lines 
• Supports operations services such as traffic re-homes, network retunes, feature activations, network modification and Performance analysis 
• Support Customer Lab for SW/ HW New Feature verification and validation 
• Ensure quality customer satisfaction survey targets and carry end to end RAN support function 
• Work as Project Support Engineer for atomization of the process and improve in efficiency & execution of the task



Requirements:
• 3+ years experience in Project , technical support and Equipment implementation for ex-Nokia 3G radio network controller elements ( Node B ) in wireless communications networks 
• Have worked for the ex-Nokia Node B Comm & Integration, Technical support, LAB testing, Validation, FOA and Project Technical support 
• Have good understanding about the RNC also, can do basic trouble shooting of the ex Nokia RNC 
• Has excellent IP, Unix experience and skills set 
• Understanding of network interface protocols, protocol analyzers and network specifications 
• Can independently use Network analyzer and other tools to troubleshoot technical problem 
• Understanding of wireless network implementation and operations services



Email your CV to pjones@firstpointgroup.com

Telecom Vacancy for Core Integration Engineer :: Africa

Excellent opportunity presented by AXIR Consulting for Core Integration Engineer for a 3 months extendable project in Northern Africa.


Please send your CV to olena.antonyuk@axirconsulting.com