Outside Plant Engineer (OSP) is needed at MacTay Consulting
JOB TITLE: Outside Plant Engineer (OSP)
LOCATION: Lagos
Job Responsibilities
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- To meet OHS, construction, build quality, productivity, and efficiency targets.
- To manage any welfare requirements of the civils/cabling/splicing gangs.
- To liaise with local authorities and residents as appropriate to ensure compliance with local requirements prior to and during any construction.
- To ensure that the correct liaison with local authorities and residents has taken place and any local requirements are adhered to.
- To attend any meetings as required, on-site or at the local authorities’ premises.
- To provide technical expertise and be the single point of contact/escalation on all aspects of fibre build and construction; this includes all civils (including re-instatement), cabling and splicing/testing activities, plus production/completion of associated (as-built) documentation within agreed timescales;
- To manage and track the build/construction team deliverables, ensuring compliance with OHS, contract obligations, and achievement of SLAs and KPIs.
- To deliver the agreed monthly site audit documentation and implement any corrective action/continuous improvement plans.
- To provide regular progress updates of individual jobs to the fibre services teams as required.
- To be an on-call supervisor (scheduled as part of the agreed rota) to manage any fibre network maintenance call outs to satisfactory resolution. This includes providing regular reports and customer updates.
Requirements / Key Skills
- Experience of UK fixed and cable operator network build guidelines and ways of working, including GPON, FTTX and HFC networks
- Knowledge of The New Roads and Street Works Act, 1991 (NRSWA), and its ancillary legislation and the various Codes of Practice
- Accreditation to NRWSA Supervisor level; Have a first aid qualification and ideally trained to Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) level
- Knowledge of HSG47 “Avoiding danger from underground services”, together with all OHS requirements and applicable laws
- Excellent understanding of fibre network architectures and network topologies
- 5+ years of network build experience in the UK fibre services industry or civils industry
- Knowledge of FTTx topology including mixed networks with GPON, G.Fast, VDSL, HFC, DOCSIS
- Knowledge of available passive components applicable to FTTx networks and FTTx deployment technologies.
- Experience conducting quality control of fibre engineering build/construction
- Experience of managing OSP civils operatives and cabling/splicing engineers
- Understanding of OSP network build key drivers affecting cost in OSP network roll outs
- Ability to work as part of an on-call rota, including night work as part of a 24×7 SLA
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the “Job title” as subject of the email.
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering / Technical |
Deadline | 17th July, 2020. |