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Job Summary

• The Outside Plant (OSP) Supervisor oversees maintenance of ipNX fiber optic and civil work activities on the outside plant network. The OSP Supervisor will be involved in the day-to-day maintenance and management of the outside plant, taking into consideration customer and local authority organizations in the maintenance of the fiber outside plant. The role is expected to involve a significant element of on-site attendance.

Responsibilities

• Corporate Customers: Restore service failures within 3 hours of its occurrence. Implement and integrate new projects and ensure all open incident tickets are closed within this timeframe.
• Retail Customers: Restore service failures within 12 hours of its occurrence.
• Incident Management Communication: Provide prompt feedback for input into the OTRS application with information relating to activities being carried out to resolve customer service incidents.
• Proactively identify, plan, and execute preventive maintenance action on the fiber network.
• Audit and collate information for the fiber outside plant network. Prepare the "as maintained" documents within region/sub-region managed for the O&M Unit.
• Ensure weekly support status reports are done and submitted timely for review.
• Activate FOS customer requests within 3 days of signup. Sign off the Customer Feedback Form, prepare, and submit post-activation report.

Qualifications

• University degree in Telecoms, Engineering, or Applied Sciences.
• At least 2 years in the telecommunications industry, with experience in fiber network deployments and outside plant maintenance.
• Experience in civil works supervision and quality control.
• Experience in processing ROW licenses with local authorities/state regulatory agencies.
• User experience with Microsoft Office tools, including a good working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• User experience with Visio/AutoCAD/GIS tools is desired.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to solve complex problems in the shortest available time using honed analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with customers, vendors, team members, and the local community.
• Proven track record of maintenance and management of metro and/or long-distance fiber optic infrastructure.
• Sound knowledge of telecom industry best practices, norms, and technical requirements with regard to fiber and civil work maintenance.
• FTTx and/or P2P fiber deployment and maintenance experience are distinct advantages, i.e., fiber termination using fusion splice machines, testing and analyzing fiber links with OTDR and Light Source/Power Meters (LSPM), identifying fiber cores with VFLs.
• Capable of understanding fiber network architectures, designs, and splice plans.
• An inherent culture of documenting concise and accurate “As-Is” status of network elements and splice configuration in a consistent manner.
• Familiarity with the requirements of Health & Safety legislation in Nigeria.

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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 unnecessary re-visits.
• Accuracy of High-level Descriptions (measured by level of modification required after submission to Team Lead)
• Accuracy of Fibre Splice Plans

Qualifications and Experience

• HND in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Information Systems with 2 - 5 years of work experience. 
• However, field experience for non-science or engineering backgrounds can be considered.
• Experience using CAD (Autocad, Visio) and Microsoft Office software.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 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.