MultiChoice Job Vacancy for a System Engineer in Nigeria([email protected]),July 2012
The MultiChoice Group continually strives to recruit and retain talent to meet current and future operational needs.
The MultiChoice Group continually strives to recruit and retain talent to meet current and future operational needs.
We are always looking for exceptional individuals who have high energy & a passion for delivering outstanding work to come and join our family.
Job Title: System Engineer
This position is based in Lagos
Context
(External factors which influence the work environment, taking future conditions and strategic requirements into account)
- Diverse, multi-national organization, partipative, empowerment driven culture complex, regulated, competitive industry
- Local and international Pay-TV Industry
- Highly technical and specialized environment
- Rapid industry change
Customers
- MNET & Supersport
- Transmission Operation Department
- Broadcast technology Department
- Subscribers
- Service providers (programmes, satellite and terrestrial signal delivery services)
Outputs
(Products, services, programs and information which the individual must provide to external individuals or groups, or one another to accomplish the organisation’s mission and strategy)
- Ensure world-class Operations and maintenance of the Outside Broadcast services to ensure quality of service delivery to customers
- Installation and maintenance of
• Digital mobile terrestrial transmitters
• Satellite reception and transmission infrastructure
- Conduct data and RF measurements
- Established and maintained operational processes to achieve optimum service levels
- Adopted Best Practices in Technical Operations to achieve
- Assets management
- VSAT installation and maintenance
- Compile first line maintenance and callout reports
- Effective communication up & down
• Change control and problem solving processes
• Streamlined processes, operational efficiency and cost effective delivery
- Established and maintained recovery processes
- Budgeting planning to ensure that resources are available for capacity expansion, spares and new configurations
- Testing and implementation of new Broadcast service requirements
- Test and implement new broadcast services requirements
- Attend to equipment breakdown on 24x7
- Training programs for staff to ensure that they perform their jobs efficiently
- Ensure all activities such as cessation, circuit migrations are performed according to schedule
- Resources management, such as optical fibre links
Competencies
Knowledge
- High level of Outside Broadcast Services-relevant technology operations knowledge
- Equipment repairs, Modular swap-outs
- Monitoring practice
- Computer Literacy – IT Networking
- Digital signal measurement
- Radio frequency (RF) knowledge, including measurement, i.e proficiency with the use of RF test equipment
- Best practices for Terrestrial broadcast networks (digital and Anaogue)
- Satellite RF operations
- Conditional Access systems
Skills
- Analytical thinking/problem solving under extreme pressure
- Questioning
- Withstanding pressure
- Report Writing
- Psychomotor skills: handling or components and soldering
- Idea generation
- Information processing
- Attention to detail
- Initiative
- Negotiation
- Analysis
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Planning and Organizing
- Multitasking under high pressure
- Creative problem solving
- Decisiveness
- Organizing
- Relationship Building
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal Skills
Personal Qualities
- Ability to function effectively under adverse conditions
- Diplomacy
- Resourcefulness
- Innovation
- Flexibility
- Integrity
- Deadline driven
- Tenacity
- Adaptability
- Cultural sensitivity
- Empathy
- Multitasking
- Performance driven
- Self development orientated
- Proactive approach
How to apply
Please email your applications in the form of CV’s to [email protected]
Application Deadline: 18 July, 2012
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