CORPORATE SERVICES

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE

PRINCIPAL TECHNICIAN: INFRASTRUCTURE FIBRE ROUTES AND TRANSMISSION

TCOE SALARY COMMENCING FROM R434 352 PER ANNUM

REF.: CS 128/19

Requirements:

- A 3-year National diploma or equivalent technical certificate
- 10 years’ relevant optic fibre technical experience, of which 5 years must have been in a supervisory position
- At least 8 years’ telecommunications industry optic fibre experience with at least 5 years’ experience as a Resident Engineer and technical lead in telecommunications optic fibre infrastructure construction and maintenance, installation and inside plant planning and experience in a lead/supervisory role for implementation of projects.
Key Performance Areas:

- Supervise the construction, OSP and optic fibre of telecommunications routes and infrastructure
- Supervision and inspection of OSP, ISP, civils and optic fibre infrastructure per the approved design
- Provide technical expertise in providing quality control supervision and coordination of the implementation of the City's OSP/CIVILS/FIBRE infrastructure to satisfy a specified set of requirements derived from the Branch's strategic plan and customer demand
- Assist with developing and improving standards and specifications for the fibre optic network of telecoms
- Coordinate the day-to-day activities of the Implementation team and contractors as well as operational maintenance in order to fulfil service delivery objectives
- Responsible for assessing and submitting deviation requests to the Planning and Design team via the coordination of the Project Manager
- Supervise, control and manage all resources assigned to projects in terms of their compliance to the City’s and Telecoms policies and procedures
- Ensure that Health and Safety rules and regulations are followed
- Oversee the internal administrative processes which must take place in order to fulfil the project delivery commitments, e.g. update document repositories, update tickets, form filling and update
- Provide management reports as required
- Act as a Project Coordinator for specific projects related to the Telecoms Infrastructure section as requested by the line manager
- Solve complex technical investigations and design problems and any other issues that may arise and hinder the progress of service delivery
- Ensure conformance to telecoms quality and technical standards and specifications by all parties
- Manage and oversee as well as undertake the necessary quality control of workmanship of contract companies and sub-contractors to ensure that the City obtains the best service delivery from these companies.


CLOSING DATE: 25 OCTOBER 2019

- Please quote the reference number of the vacancy in all communications.
- Certified copies of qualifications must be available on request.
- Kindly note that applications will not be acknowledged in writing.
- Copies of supporting documents will not be returned.
- No late applications will be considered.
- If no notification of appointment is received within 3 months of the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

The City of Cape Town promotes and applies the principles of employment equity. In line with the City’s corporate employment equity and diversity strategy, equity policy, plan and targets, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from the designated groups.