Transmission Manager

Tech Skills 25 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2.

The Transmission Manager shall maintain a direct working relationship with internal / external personnel related to the Transmission projects, such as:

• Customer Transmission programme managers
• Operations Director
• Project Managers
• Transmission Team
• Contract/Subcontractors working on Transmission projects

Main Tasks

• Day to day management and delivery of the Transmission Implementation Team
• Day to day interaction with the Transmission Design, Planning leads and Programme managers on the customer side.
• Responsible for the Transmission Implementation Process. Ensuring the transmission project managers are following their project plans, within agreed timescales, budget and quality SLA's where specified.
• Manage the Transmission departments activities within agreed scope of work and program activity according to the agreed contract and SLA's with the relevant customers.
• Record actions, action assignees, deadlines and other information from the weekly Transmission Teams meetings in the approved Minutes of Meeting format and follow-up and ensure actions are completed on time.
• Ensure competent and adequate transmission resources are engaged to deliver the relevant programmes aims.
• Identify issues, propose solutions and assign actions to ensure the agreed Transmission Implementation Plan is achieved.
• To actively encourage safety awareness and best practice among all employees and sub/contractors.
• Manage the monthly customer reporting process with the relevant Transmission Project Managers. Following the issue of reports ensure that the relevant PO's or Invoices are processed through the Accounts department.
• Ensure that the Transmission implementation team process site material requests in line with the customer's process.
• Review and approve invoices from contractors and subcontractors or suppliers within the set limits of authority.
• Promote innovation and implementation of new ideas and best practise.

Competence Requirements

• Experience in the field of mobile telecommunications network rollout managing Transmission Implementation programme teams.
• Good customer and service supplier management skills.
• Experience in managing Transmission and Link Installation and Commissioning engineers.
• Experience of the installation, commissioning and acceptance of a wide variety of equipment vendor wireless links. (e.g. Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, Stratex, Huawei, Ceragon)
• Proficient in written and spoken English as a business language.
• Able to communicate effectively with all interfaces.
• Proficient in using MS Office applications, including Outlook (email), Excel, Word and Power Point and project planning software packages.
• Proficiency in using wireless link engineering software packages such as Pathloss, Ellipse or TEMs would be an advantage.

Candidates with relevant background, please forward their details for the attention of Sandra at Tech Skills Resources