OSP Planning and Design Technician at ipNX Nigeria Limited - 2 Openings

ipNX is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology companies, serving a multitude of needs across enterprises, small businesses and residents with innovative, world-class services. Our ability to identify, satisfy and exceed today’s market needs is a testament to over a decade of experience, our commitment, drive and passion realized through highly skilled and well seasoned professionals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: OSP Planning and Design Technician

Locations: Abuja (FCT) & Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and 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.
• 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.
• 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 unnecessary re-visits.

Requirements

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

Application Closing Date
20th April, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.