Project Engineer RAN at Airtel

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. With headquarters in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G,3G and 4G services, fixed line, high speed broadband through DSL,IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G mobile services. Bharti Airtel had over 264 million customers across its operations at the end of July 2012.

Responsibilities

To ensure Sites & Erlangs deployment as stipulated in Annual Operating Plan:

• Drive projects end to end from SO issuance to RFI to addition of sites in MAPA.
• Create Project trackers to effectively track milestones and ensure continuous improvement.
• Evaluate all Service Level agreements, partner with all stakeholders to achieve positive customer experience and optimize costs.
• Operate as single point of Contact for all ZTE and Nokia RAN projects.

Speed of Execution of Roll outs & Installation and Commissioning of Core Network (Customer):

• Ensure that the speed to market exceeds competition and first-time resolution (FTR).
• Determine and manage strict timelines and quality delivery for RAN deployment with all stakeholders.
• Propose and review expansion of RAN projects as per network priorities by collaborating with planning, commercial and other stakeholders.
• Establish systemic process for the supervision of installation of new network elements with future capacity plan.

Logistics and Project Management:

• Establish departmental process to align to PMI process for all projects and enforce strict adherence.

Regulatory and Statutory Compliance:

• Ensure all statutory permissions required for deployment have been approved and documented. 

Partner and Supply Chain Management:

• Provide support and ensure effective process of Partner management of Service Provider and Infrastructure vendors. Establish procedure for improving rollout and governance of Partners.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years’ experience in the Telecom sector.
• 5-8 years in deployment of GSM and/or 3G.
• Experience of managing multiple complex Network projects simultaneously.
• Evidence of successful project delivery with wide geographical spread.
• Experience in Site Planning and Use of Map Info and planning tools.
• Any university degree In Engineering.
• Professional qualification in Project Management Techniques (Added advantage).
• Strong Numeric skills
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Business Acumen
• Eye for details
• Environmental Knowledge
• Communication skills
• Project management 
• Process Quality

Method of Application