Radio Planning and Optimisation Authority/Specialist

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Millions of people interact with Vodafone Technology every day without even realising it. Our products deliver many essential services that critical to the lives of many different people. We connect all sorts of businesses including banks, shops and the media to and critical services such as the emergency services. Our technology and network is the backbone to everything we deliver and without it we wouldn’t have a business. That’s why we’re investing heavily in it and we need talented people to help us deliver the next wave of innovation.

About the role

Our Regional Radio teams in London and Newbury have some great new opportunities for driven and innovative radio engineers to improve performance by ensuring the best possible design, configuration and optimisation of our access network.

The focus will be on ensuring that Vodafone achieves the best network performance and coverage KPIs in the UK market. The role will be in one of our Regional Radio teams, allowing our marketing teams to differentiate Vodafone using these measures, in addition to keeping all existing customers satisfied within region and thus reducing churn.

Primarily the role is about delivering the 2G/3G/4G radio designs and optimisation within the regional team which involves understanding the current radio performance issues in terms of network KPIs and customer complaints, site design weaknesses and proposing the radio design for new sites, or solution in existing ones, to meet Vodafone performance targets.

On site visual inspections and technical reviews with Vodafone third parties and other Vodafone teams, coverage predictions with planning tools, analysis of existing hardware/antenna configurations and proposals to improve network performance, analysis of radio KPIs analysis and close interaction with Deployment teams and Partners are the key tasks and responsibilities expected for this role.

Skills Knowledge and Experience

-Be educated to an Engineering/Science degree level or equivalent

-Experience on Radio Design/Coverage planning (Atoll) based on desktop analysis as well as on on-site technical visits

-Excellent knowledge of 2G and 3G network architecture (nice to have 4G)

-Good knowledge of Radio network functionality

-Experience of using network statistics, networks traces and drive trialling logs to analyse and improve network -performance

-Experience of network optimisation techniques and processes

-Experience of automatic radio network optimisation tools

-Strong database and tool knowledge to include SQL, business objects, VB, MapInfo, with ability to learn others

-Specific vendor equipment experience - Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia

In addition to the technical knowledge and experience we are looking for the following kind of behaviours in our Engineers:

-Strong sense of personal ownership for the network in a specific geographic area

-Relentless pursuit of improvement in their area

-Natural team member - seeing the value from cross team collaboration

-Competitive - we want to build the #1 Network in VF.

-Inquisitive - gets to root cause of issues

-At home with the concept of continuous improvement

-Puts the customer experience at the heart of every decision

We're committed to recruiting the best people, whatever their background. If you have a disability, learning difficulty, medical condition or any other individual need, we'd be happy to talk to you about making reasonable adjustments to our application and selection process that will enable you to be your best.

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