August 31, 2010

Assistant Manager Engineering (Outside Plant), Karachi

We are looking for Assistant Manager Engineering (Outside Plant) for a Multinational Telecom company.

Position title: Assistant Manager Engineering (Outside Plant)
Position location: Karachi
Sector: Telecom
Company Type: Multinational Telecom Company
Salary: Rs. 60K to 85K
Deadline: None given -- First come first served


Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering (such as Electrical/Electronics/Telecom/Marine) preferred
- Marine Operations involving Cable/Pipeline Laying.
- About 2 to 5 years experience in Telecom (SDH / WDM) Transmission.

Major Responsibilities:

- Responsible to ensure proper operation and efficient maintenance of external installation of company

  submarine cable system.

- Supervise cable guards and get feedback from them and Log the daily activities shift wise to monitor

  the status of outside plant.

- Closely monitor any activity / development work that have any danger to damage the buried cable.

- Ensure that route is frequently patrolled and always on alert to see if any damage is done

  by any digging or excavation undertaken by Govt. departments, Civic agencies and private parties.

- Maintain up to date information of cable route e.g. total length of installed cable, number of fiber

  splices and their loses, joints and their location on the route. All the information must be documented

  properly.

- Prepare Quarterly report of development on the cable route to keep the status of OSP up to date.

- To guide Lower Staff / jointers in difficult tasks like using jointing kits, cable end preparation, usage of

  splicing machine etc.

- Assign workloads, supervises, and coordinates work schedules for Supervisors / Cable Guards.

- To ensure that all the spare kits, testing/splicing equipment must be available sufficiently to handle any

  type of accident/ cable cut.

- Any other assignment related to the above job as instructed by his superiors.

- Report the incidents on a daily basis to the Manager (Operation /External Plant).

- Act as first escalation line or field responsible for key activities.

- Inspection of fiber route with their team (that includes condition of Manholes and also the ground

  situation).


Skills and Knowledge:

- Specialized training, specific equipment course, membership, etc.

- Marine Operations involving Cable/Pipeline Laying.

- Basic Supervision and management training.

- Operational knowledge to work in MS Office environment.

Kindly send your cv on fatima.careerpk@gmail.com with the subject line mentioned above, apply latest by 15 september, & kindly after going through JD if you fulfill job requirement.