Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Advise and assist the management/technicians in all aspects of his specialty.
2. Provide Mobile Teams support to Sectors and Radar sites for the wireless communication systems/subsystems.
3. Perform intermediate level installation and maintenance on the wireless communications systems, as required.
4. Carry out Preventative Maintenance Instructions (PMIs), as required.
5. Properly document maintenance activities (PMIs, Job Control Documents (JCDs) and configuration changes).
6. Produce/update engineering training material for On-the-Job training and conduct training as required/requested.
7. Monitor training and recommend improvements.
8. Keep abreast of emerging C4ISR wireless technologies, research, and user trends in terms of technology choices.
9. Evaluate new wireless communications technologies for application in a security environment.
10. Carry out any other tasks assigned by management within his specialty.
Job Specification
Qualifications
Shall have a minimum of Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering. Specialized training and certification in at least one of the wireless communications systems is required. These systems include: VRCS System, HF Radio System, UHF/VHF Radio System, Microwave Radio System, WiFi, TETRA, or the SATCOM. Must be qualified and specialized on the specific equipment, hardware and software, operation and maintenance of the specific discipline. Must be proficient in the use of desktop computer software packages, in particular MS Office.
Experience
1. The candidate shall have a minimum of ten (10) years experience in the field of TETRA communications.
2. Shall be fully conversant with the equipment, facilities, and installations in use in a TETRA system or have had experience on equipment, facilities, installations or systems of the similar type and generation in a communications environment.
3. Shall be fully conversant in wireless radios, having experience on HF, VHF, UHF and SHF communications including associated multiplexing and terminal equipment, Land Mobiles, multi-channel Tape Recorders and Pager Equipment, as well as TETRA radio operations and maintenance.
4. Shall be fully conversant and have an understanding of TETRA uplink, downlink, RF, Multiplex, Modems, Antenna Tracking system, and other equipment in use in a TETRA system or have had experience on similar equipment or systems of the same generation.
5. Shall have three (3) years experience in developing and/or supporting at least one current C2 wireless communications systems. These systems include: VRCS System, HF Radio System, UHF/VHF Radio System, Microwave Radio System, TETRA, or a SATCOM radios is required.
6. Shall have experience with Main Distribution Frames, IDF, Voice Conditioning equipment, Multiplexers, High Power Amplifiers (HPAs), LNAs, Up-converters, Down-converters, etc.
7. Shall have experience in producing training material and providing On-the-Job training in the maintenance and operation of wireless communications systems