Transmission Manager

Job description / Role

Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for complete transmission network fault and performance analysis on access, BH and core layer of the network
- Responsible to segregation of problems on different layers of transmission network
- Identification of correct fault owners like field operation teams, Power teams and Transmission planning team
- Responsible for devising the solutions for all the related problems to Transmission operation teams
- Follow-up for the faults related to other departments for early resolution of the problem
- Responsible for evaluating new plans and providing feedback to the planning team for plan enhancement where required.
- Responsible for studying, understanding and communicating details of High Level & Low Level Designs to team members.
- Responsible for developing Standard Operating Procedures to guide lower level staff in completing routing tasks.

Network maintenance:
- Drafting the annual maintenance schedule for preventative maintenance for the entire network
- Drafting detailed daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and bi-annual routine maintenance works
- Ensuring that the maintenance schedule is adhered to
- Ensuring timeous corrective maintenance by assigning tasks and supervision of work undertaken

Network analysis:
- Supervise the extraction and processing of network statistics and their distribution
- Analyze network performance through statistics
- Diagnosing of network problems, suggestion of solutions and delegating to appropriate staff to attend to identified problem
- Recommend to TR network planning for any further tests that may be necessary to improve the quality of the network
- Allocate engineers to carry out database configurations on requests from roll-out, vendors, TR network planning and optimization

Staff supervision:
- Coordinate weekly meetings with staff for discussion of progress on tasks and air any challenges being faced
- Undertake administrative supervisory functions which are: monitoring of attendance, overtime work and vehicle usage
- Supervision of tasks to ensure that tasks are completed timeously and that objectives are met
- Allocation of base stations for monitoring to individual staff
- Ensure health and safety precautions are adhered to by staff when executing their duties.

Network reports:
- Receive, compile and review monthly KPI reports for network performance for forwarding to HQ
- Receive, compile and review monthly KPIs for input in the dashboard accounts
- Receive, compile and review monthly network outage reports and forwarding to superiors
- Receive, compile and review monthly network configuration report and forwarding to all stakeholders.
- Receive, compile and review monthly indicative revenue per site report and forwarding to superiors

Technical Requirement:
- Should have hands on experience on well-known MW short haul product ( NEC, Huawei, Ericsson ,ALU and NSN)
- Should have hands on experience on Long MW product of NEC ,NSN ,ALU and Ericsson
- Should have hands on experience of configuration management via NMS of all the well know MW vendors
- Should have hands on experience on DWDM equipments of Huawei
- Should have hands on experience on Huawei OSN series product for configuration management
- Must be familiar with all the process of implementing change request/work orders
- Should be familiar with all the new technologies in transmission domain
- Must be aware of all the protection schemes ( SNCP,MSP,PP,ERPS,LAG etc)
- Must be familiar with all the flows of preventive and corrective maintenance.
- Must be familiar with 3G transmission network
- Possess working knowledge of IP and Ethernet transport technologies (E-LINE, ELAN, EIGRP/OSPF, sub-netting, VLANs, QoS)
- Must be familiar with DCN solutions in transmission network.
- Must be familiar with network synchronization.

Coordination with third parties and planning team:
- First line interaction with property owners for sites and communication to relevant department of any challenges faced during site access for maintenance purposes.
- Coordination with other section/venders for project implementation, and network optimization.
- Coordination with suppliers/vendors on maintenance service level agreements
- Undertaking interdepartmental coordination on projects, site acceptance, network optimization and maintenance

Requirements

- Required experience should be more than 10 years
- Should be holding the position of either Team lead or Transmission Operation Manager for at least 5 years
- Preferably should have worked in both Vendor and Operator Environment

About the Company

Asiacell is a leading provider of quality mobile telecommunications and data services in Iraq with a subscriber base of 14 million customers. Asiacell was the first mobile telecommunications provider in Iraq to achieve nationwide coverage, offering its services across all of Iraq’s 19 governorates including the national capital Baghdad and all other major Iraqi cities. Asiacell’s network covers 99.06% of the Iraqi population which makes its national coverage the widest among the mobile operators in Iraq.

Asiacell is also the best internet provider with its 3.9G data services, offering the best network coverage in the entire of Iraq since January 2015.

Asiacell provides prepaid mobile communications services that forms 99% of its subscribers (as of November 2016). Prepaid lines offers include some amended package offers to suit different sectors of the market, including young people and women, and an innovative service targeting millions of visitors to Iraq every year. Asiacell also provides post-paid services to companies and individuals.

Asiacell is also the value share leader in the market, the fact that indicates the trust and confidence of higher value and corporate segment customers.