Officer Field Quality Audit

Lusaka, Zambia
Full-time
Location: Zambia – Lusaka
Company Description

IHS Towers is one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared communications infrastructure in the world by tower count and is solely focused on the emerging markets. The Company has over 39,000 towers across its eight markets, including Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.

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Our Vision:

IHS is committed to helping create a connected world where communication promotes continued economic growth and social development throughout emerging markets.

Joining IHS means becoming part of something truly special, a success story where creative thinking, diversity of opinion and innovation are immensely valued. From global mentoring schemes, inter-company transfers and secondments, to technical training programs and online learning resources, we seek to provide our employees with a range of career development opportunities tailored to their professional aspirations.

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Lusaka Zambia

Benefits:

Pension
Income Protection
Medical insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Annual leave
Parental leave
Social events

IHS Towers is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. All applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Job Description
Maintain site power availability in line with the SLAs for the different categories of sites within area of responsibility.
Ensure an MTTR of less than <1hr=60km,<2hrs=200km,<3hrs=300km,<5hrs=400km on all power/passive related failures impacting service.
Provide permanent solution to failures which impact on service that have occurred more than once and keep repetitive failures to a minimum.
Provide second level intervention on all network impacting issues.
Monitor preventive maintenance and refueling activities of passive elements at site in area of jurisdiction.
Carry out audit checks on all sites within area of jurisdiction.
Maintain cost efficiency by timely response to GRC & sites with consumptions not consistent to power topology to ensure fuel consumption is in-line with power topology expectations
Timely escalation of severe network impacting faults.
Adhere to NOC escalations and closure procedures of faults.
Monitor the adherence of processes and procedure by sub – contractors in the areas of routine maintenance and refueling activities.
Input in the assessment of the sub-contractor performance monthly
Deliver expected network performance (through enhancing controls, optimizing preventive maintenance, spare parts control and availability, team’s distribution, fuel management and control)
Maintain a database of all IHS assets on allocated sites with updated information and accurate reporting using the IHS Online Maintenance Application.
Define Preventive/Routine maintenance schedules and plans (upgrades) for sites.
Develop & follow up and validate preventive maintenance schedules & execution and ensure the work quality is aligned to expectations. – Ensure preventive and curative maintenance timelines along with quality are met & delivered
Organize meetings with support technicians and reporting to Manager, Region and other Departments.
Qualifications
Degree/Diploma in Electrical/Electronics or any other Engineering field
Member of Engineering Institute of Zambia

Additional Information
Minimum of two (2) years work experience.
Computer appreciation: MS Word, Excel, etc.
Competence and substantive experience in telecoms power management including AC/DC power expertise on passive elements like – Generators, Rectifiers, Batteries, Solar Panels, Inverters, etc
Basic project management appreciation
Electrical works and tools management skills
Self – starter
Able to work under minimum supervision
Should possess a valid driver’s license