Career Opportunities at Raeanna Nigeria Limited


Raeanna is an infrastructure operator for wireless telecommunication in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide critical back end services for leading mobile network operators and internet service provider to deliver seamless, reliable connectivity for voice, data and multimedia contents. Our energy service delivers scalable, cost-effective solutions for remote locations and communities.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

 

 

Job Title: Roll-out Coordinator

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities
The Rollout Coordinator is responsible in its own area for:

  • Executing the Rollout according to agreed scope and contractual commitment
  • Ensure progress reporting within the defined tools (Milestones)
  • Attend Project meetings and report progress to the PM
  • Schedule and run weekly meetings with the service provider
  • Ensure the agreed quality
  • Day-to-day operative Rollout planning.
  • Problem solving for all day to day related Rollout issues
  • Prepare draft Rollout Project Plan
  • Inform all stakeholders about planned Rollout activities (customer, landlord, service provider, ...)
  • Attend Site Surveys / BTB (only if necessary)
  • Evaluate Site Survey results together with the Service Provider
  • Create together with the Service Provider the Project Plan and ensure end customer approval
  • Ensure availability of transmission
  • Coordinate and ensure availability of pre-installed equipment
  • Verify that Rollout is ready to be done (Site Access, Transportation & cranes confirmed)
  • Ensure smooth Rollout and solve any related problems / issues
  • Ensure that post Rollout activities are done properly (e.g. waste disposal)
  • Ensure site & Rollout acceptance (CSA/WE)
  • Manage any Rollout related claim
  • Day to day coordination with customer
  • Ensure quality of Site Specific Documentation (SSD, SSCL)
  • Responsibility for the Rollout project cost baseline. Costs include service costs and local materials.
  • Responsibility for initiating customer invoicing after acceptance
  • Monitoring and controlling quality (for way of working and site quality)
  • Planning of resources within the Rollout
  • Organize and lead the Service Provider according to Rollout plan
  • Setting up and maintaining clear and effective internal and external communication
  • Reporting of key performance indicators for PD/PM
  • Providing regular forecasts and progress reports for PD/PM
  • Site folders for sites and other needed documentation to be transferred to care
  • Completing the hand over and needed documents
  • Identify and analyze risks
  • Plan and implement risk response actions and define contingency actions.
  • Monitor and control risks continuously and maintain contingency plan
  • Project level roll-out volume forecasting for service providers
  • Monitor project Work-In-Progress inventory levels and inventory accuracy including drop off points
  • Aim customer satisfaction.

Requirement

  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree.

 

 

 

 

Job Title: Site Acquisition Officer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities
Key Duties and Responsibilities shall not be limited to the following:

  • Identify candidates for specific land leases based customer criteria, owner interest, and jurisdictional Zoning and/or Land Use regulations.
  • Negotiate lease acquisitions and lease amendments required for telecommunications installations.
  • Oversee specific leasing operations and ensure that assignment and scheduling of related work follows agreed-upon timelines.
  • May serve as a point of contact for the community and/or government agencies.
  • Prepare or oversee preparation of tower company collocation applications.
  • Assist or oversee completion of Zoning and Permit applications for submittal to jurisdictions and coordinate the zoning process with outside counsel and vendors.
  • Work directly with Site Acquisition Manager and/or other site acquisition and construction personnel to provide site acquisition expertise in all aspects of project.
  • Quality control, data entry and tracking of Site Candidate Packages, tower lease and amendments and other Site Acquisition documentation.
  • Coordinate, schedule and track site visits and technical team visits with various departments
  • Coordinate, order and track title, surveys, environmental reports, structural analysis, regulatory reports, lease exhibits and construction plans and drawings as required.
  • Must be able to read and interpret surveys and construction drawings.
  • Obtain Landlord approval on Construction Drawings and zoning/permit applications
  • Prepare and update site status reports/databases, site close-out packages, and attend client meetings or deployment calls as required.
  • Assist Management in tracking and reporting site acquisition self-perform revenue/market credit and preparation of client billing.

Requirements

  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years work experience.

 

 

 

Job Title: Roll-out Manager
Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities
Key Duties and Responsibilities shall not be Limited to the Following:

  • Responsible for all project activities during the project phases.
  • Responsible for planning, setting up, and executing the project activities, ensuring that the project goals are met and that the customer’s business requirements are fulfilled.
  • Full project supervising, site implementation and acceptance, engineering and installation (antennae, MW, RF devices, energy and air-conditioning systems) & Site infrastructure deployment.
  • Responsible for Rollout Planning & Execution, directing & controlling project teams and other supporting Departments and ensuring project delivery as per schedule. Infrastructure management work (including complete Civil & Electrical works, tower erection, antenna, cable trays and feeders.
  • Management of all construction activities including providing technical inputs for methodologies of construction & co-ordination with Site Management
  • Stay abreast of emerging telecom technologies and new project rollouts
  • Deliver sites as planned
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and per specification.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) required.

 

 

 

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Roles and Responsibilities
The Project Manager responsibilities shall not be limited to the following:

  • Determine and define project scope and objectives.
  • Forecast resources needed to reach objectives, effectively and efficiently manage resources to deliver the project.
  • Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements.
  • Track project costs to meet budget.
  • Identifying and mitigating obstacles.
  • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan.
  • Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about progress, and adjustments where necessary.

Education and Experience

  • First Degree or equivalent in Electrical, Electronics Engineering or similar Engineering course.
  • At least 8 years experience in Project Management.

Required Capabilities
Knowledge:

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Risk Management
  • Health & Safety.

Skills:

  • Problem Solving & Communication
  • Analytical and organizational skills.

Behavioural:

  • Integrity
  • Teamwork & Customer Focus.

 

 

 

Job Title: Project Administrator

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Project
Reports to: Reporting Line

Roles and Responsibilities
Project Administrator responsibilities shall not be limited to the following:

  • Attend project and cross-team meetings, ensuring open lines of communication and appropriate sharing of information.
  • General administrative and office tasks as required.
  • Support and assist project team members as required to meet project requirements.
  • Respect and care for customers (internal and external), members and partners and actively listening and responding appropriately.
  • Provide administration and project management, and other logistical support for a range of projects.
  • Scheduling regular meetings and recording decisions.
  • Prepare and provide documentation to internal teams and key stakeholders.
  • Track expenses and predict future costs.
  • Monitor project progress and address potential issues.
  • Coordinate quality controls to ensure deliverables meet requirements.
  • Travel bookings and per-diems.
  • Manage relationships with project personnel and clients. Ensure that service level agreements are adhered to at all times.
  • Support senior managers, project managers, project engineers and other stakeholders in delivering their objectives through variety of projects and programmes and other agreed work plans.
  • Any other task as assigned by the management.

Education and Experience

  • First degree in Business Administration or related field.
  • Some years experience as a Project Administrator.

Required Capabilities
Knowledge:

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Risk Management
  • Health & Safety.

Skills:

  • Problem Solving & Communication
  • Analytical and organizational skills.

Behavioural:

  • Integrity
  • Teamwork & Customer Focus.

 

 

 

Job Title: Engineer, Radio Planning & Optimisation

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Technical
Division: Radio Planning
Unit: Network Planning
Grade Level: NA
Reports to: Manager, Network Planning
Supervises: Nil

Roles and Responsibilities

  • To design and plan rural radio networks (2G & 3G) for cost effective deployment of radio network coverage and capacity, towards the achievement of network rollout objectives and marketing/business plan.
  • Coverage – Ensuring that coverage is provided in all areas where subscribers live, work and play and to maintain parity with the competitor where necessary.
  • Produce Cost Effective radio designs - ensuring the network will be designed and built in the most cost effective way possible

Network Planning functions within the project which will be measured by:

  • Capacity - Ensuring that at any time the network will be able to accommodate the subscriber level anticipated 3 months ahead
  • Technology integration – Ensuring that multiservice sites (2G, 3G, etc.) are properly designed and integrated with minimal complexity and good Inter Radio Access Technology performance.
  • Time - Ensuring that network planning and site acceptance will be carried out in a manner to allow sufficient time for acquisition, construction and implementation of BTS and transmission links

Maintain at all times a detailed knowledge of the behavior and status of all sites in the region of responsibility. This includes:

  • Nominal plan
  • Planned sites
  • Site acquisition status
  • Build configuration and status
  • Traffic levels
  • Voice & Data traffic indices: GoS (Congestions stats), Dropped call rate, Control Channel failure, HO failure rate, half-rate
  • Monitor and report all competitor activities
  • The clutter data and propagation models (Planning Tool: Asset) will be checked at regular intervals to ensure that they offer a true reflection of the propagation environment
  • Be aware of any of the issues below that may affect the successful operation of business within the region:
  • Economic situation
  • Social / Community situations
  • Provide specialist technical support to all other department regarding the network and radio related features
  • Maintain the integrity of the contents of planning tools (esp. ASSET, and other records) and minimize discrepancies from live network
  • Execute the nominal radio coverage and capacity rollout design for the networks
  • Monitor and analyze network performance and configuration to ensure KPIs are in conformance with targets for the region
  • Continuously analyze traffic, utilization and subscriber growth in order to foresee needs for capacity expansion.
  • Review, prepare and load cell data for integration of sites onto the network in alignment with Customer team.
  • Evaluate, verify and supervise the planning of radio networks by managed service vendor(s)
  • Ensure value is created from Customer engagement & Operations:
  • Maintain accurate and thorough Knowledge of the network, especially in assigned region/areas to aid decision making by stakeholders

Education and Experience

  • First Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
  • Three (3) years post NYSC relevant experience

Required Capabilities
Minimum Education:

  • Fluent in English
  • First Degree in Electrical / Electronics or Telecommunications Engineering or related discipline

Minimum Experience:

  • Minimum of 3 years experience in an area of specialization; with experience working with others
  • Experience working in a medium organization
  • Experience with a GSM or Wireless Telecomm operator in a multi-vendor environment
  • Experience with Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE equipment will be desirable

Training:

  • Training on the BSS aspect of a GSM network
  • Radio planning and optimization of GSM and UMTS network

Skills:

  • Problem Solving & Communication
  • Behavior
  • Integrity
  • Team work & Customer Focus

Internal Relationships:

  • Technical team

External Relationships:

  • Vendors - OEMs & Drive-test
  • Customer.

 

 

 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Application Letters to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email

 

Application Deadline  6th August, 2021.