Senior Backhaul Designer – London

City, London
Square One Resources

Job Title: Senior Backhaul Designer
Location: London – for occasional survays
Salary/Rate: £376/day
Start Date: 30/09/2024
Job Type: Contract

This role aims to drive innovation in design to future proof our network by upgrading 16 million premises to XGSPON. Supporting design partners by producing HLD, you’ll be responsible for rolling out training, designing a fibre backhaul solution and producing technical guides around how to use engineering solutions within a design.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Scope, validate and design complex XGSPON backhaul network serving 100k+ premises.

Provide HLD for Virgin Media O2’s existing nationwide network enabling a strategic and collaborative city upgrade programme to serve both corporate and residential premises.

Identify high level risks and support Local Authority engagement to ensure successful deployment of strategic assets ahead of delivery programme.

Field and technical site surveys to confirm accuracy of HLD outputs.

Promote a culture of excellence working in partnership with low level design teams to actively identify, document and roll out training requirements.

Impact assess new technologies and support training and implementation plan as required to productionise new technologies in a fast moving environment.

Ensure Fibre Upgrade design documentation is updated to meet latest engineering standards and best practices to support right first-time approach.

Provide technical support to partner relations manager in the creation of scope documents & action plans to drive high performance across design partners.

Drive continuous improvement by innovating and challenging current working practices to ensure cost effective and timely delivery of Fibre Upgrade programme.

Drive the evolution of the design capability, identifying opportunities to automate and enhance people, process and systems capability to deliver improved efficiencies.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

Extensive experience in designing complex fibre networks within a large scale telecom environment

Knowledge of FTTH or PON networks

Knowledge of the VMO2 network topology and regional variances advantageous

Understanding of field telecommunication installation activities and working practices

Microsoft Office + Teams

AutoCAD or GIS system experience

Ability to work collaboratively as part of a remote team across disciplines

Flexibility to perform multiple duties, across multiple regions where required

Effective instructional writing skills

An analytical mind capable for “out-of-the-box” thinking to solve problems

Excellent ability to confidently present to a technical and non-technical audience including senior leaders

Understanding of CDM regulations and designer obligations

SCTE certification advantageous

NRWSA Unit 2

Full driving license

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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