OSP Planning and Design Technician

FORT KNOX OUTSOURCING - Our client is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology company, serving a multitude of needs across enterprises, small businesses and residents with innovative, world-class services.is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below
Job Title: OSP Planning and Design Technician
Location: Lagos
Salary: 221,000
Responsibilities
• Conduct Site surveys for study and planning of new FTTH deployment.
• Prepare Low Level Design of Civil and Fiber Infrastructure for
Optical Distribution Network (ODN) deployment to cover future demands.
• FTTH Optical Distribution Network (ODN) planning, Cost estimation, Route Selection, fiber Management and Fiber Link Power Budgeting.
• Prepare detailed FTTH design drawings including duct layouts and cabling layouts.
• Preparation of BoM for FTTH OSP projects.
• Preparation of High Level project scope description.
• Preparation of fiber cabling plan and splice plans for FTTH projects.
• Review of as-built drawings with FTTH roll-out team to ensure conformity with original design.
• Planning and site selection of Central Offices (CO)
• Design of Central Offices’ civil and fiber infrastructure
• Pre-project discussions and co-ordination with FTTH roll-out
team and OSP vendors.
• Joint site walk-throughs with OSP Supervisor and contractor after kickoff meetings.
• Conduct joint surveys with project team to resolve variation and change in scope issues.
• Revise designs and BOMs and send in the documents for variation or scope change approval.
• Accuracy of OSP design (measured by level of modification by Team lead required on the design before final submission to Head, Network Services Business Unit).
• Accuracy of Bill of Materials within tolerance limits.
• The percentage of time site surveys are done within schedule without un-necessary re-visits.
• Accuracy of High level Descriptions (measured by level of modification required after submission to Team Lead)
• Accuracy of Fibre Splice Plans

Qualifications & Skills
o HND in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Information Systems. However, field experience for Non- science or engineering backgrounds can be considered.
o 2+ years relevant work experience.
o Experience using CAD (Autocad, Visio) and Microsoft office software.
o Excellent communication skill.
o Analytical and problem solving skills.
o Prioritizing work.
o Generating & maintaining accurate records.
o Outside Plant Fibre experience – site surveys, fibre laying, splicing, termination, troubleshooting.
o Ability to use fibre tools e.g optical power metre, light source and OTDR