Telecommunications Network Engineer

Telecommunication Network Engineers plan, design, and monitor complex telecommunications networks and associated broadcasting equipment.

• Designs, builds, configures and commissions devices, networks and systems and ensures systems interconnect with equipment from different manufacturers, service providers and users.
• Compiles engineering project proposals to define goals, identifies scope, background and need, and ascertains cost of the project.
• Evaluates and procures new products and services.
• Ensures compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures in the provision of systems.
• Develops new sites by locating sites, filing, drawing up, and drafting drawings, and following through to approval.
• Determines appropriate configurations of hardware and software, ensuring desired performance of equipment.
• Prepares and interprets specifications, drawings and regulations for the use of equipment.
• Determines the type and arrangement of circuits, transformers, circuit-breakers, transmission lines and equipment.
• Identifies and analyses problems and needs of existing systems, to determine the most appropriate means of correcting current and future problems and improve communications.
• Monitors systems.
• Assesses performance levels of system hardware and software to project future needs, and develops short and long-terms plans for updating equipment, adding capabilities, enhancing existing systems and providing improved telecommunications.