Director of Wireless WANs and Networks

Job Purpose:

Maintains wireless operations by designing, planning, establishing, monitoring, maintaining, and improving the wireless network; managing staff.

Duties:

* Accomplishes wireless operations; working with human resources by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.

* Achieves wireless operations engineering operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and service standards.

* Meets wireless operations engineering financial objectives by estimating requirements; preparing annual and capital budgets; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

* Completes RF engineering projects by establishing project objectives, milestones, and schedules; identifying long-range and short-term issues; specifying technical and human resources required, preparing budgets; evaluating solution options; communicating requirements to team members; reviewing open issues and actions items; coordinating team member actions.

* Designs and plans wireless network by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying radio frequency (RF) engineering techniques and criteria; adapting and modifying RF engineering approaches and options; developing and evaluating new RF engineering approaches; determining equipment requirements; completing and updating frequency plans, cell site parameters; qualifying and selecting vendors and contractors; preparing layouts and schematics.

* Establishes wireless communications by configuring the system; programming and calibrating equipment; supervising equipment installation and turn-up; completing site balancing, talk-in and talk-out calculations.

* Maintains wireless system by monitoring equipment and signal performance; adjusting and retuning equipment; responding to outages and disasters, and managing disaster recovery; preparing disaster response policy and procedure.

* Maximizes system performance by obtaining drive test data; analyzing new cell site performance, antenna downtilts, coverage, interference, and hand-offs; improving coverage and overlap through antenna system redesign; anticipating, identifying, and resolving problems.

* Keeps RF equipment operating by planning, scheduling, and monitoring preventive maintenance; enforcing adherence to operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; establishing service contracts; calling for repairs; designing and conducting training programs.

* Maintains company legal status by enforcing compliance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state, and local requirements.

* Documents wireless system by producing and updating site information, including power calculations and channel plans.

* Updates job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging RF engineering practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

* Enhances broadcast engineering reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Skills/Qualifications:

Telecommunications Knowledge, Telecommunications Technologies, Technical Leadership, Technical Management, Managing Profitability, Planning, Developing Standards, Technical Zeal, Decision Making, Verbal Communication, Project Management