Specialist Structural Infrastructure

What you’ll do

• Role purpose: Infrastructure Specialist -Overseeing of Infrastructure upgrades on existing infrastructural projects. Greenfield & Rooftop Infrastructural modification to increase structural capacity and maintain tower quality and specifications. From initiation to completion and delivered on time, within budget and to prescribed quality standards.
• Manage customer application, collocation & amendments requests and provide progress reports on tower progress. Stakeholder management through effective communication with vendors, project team members and with customers. Performance tracking, monitoring and reporting on status of projects, programmes and budgets.

Who you are

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• To develop plans, develop scope for and to manage all aspects of structural Infra including but not limited to monopole, lattice & rooftop upgrades. Site upgrade projects, access upgrade projects, etc.
• To lead and manage vendors through effective communication, clearly assigning tasks and providing support and guidance
• To identify potential risks and to develop mitigation strategies to minimize upgrade disruptions
• To creatively solve problems, challenges and obstacles arising during design & upgrade phases by finding solutions and making necessary adjustments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• To monitor progress, ensure data integrity, prepare and present reports including but not limited to project progress & budget tracking.
• Planning, development and coordination of projects
• Determine and develop project scope of work
• Review designs and specification
• Review quotations and alignment
• Set project timelines
• Confirm positive business case
• Monitor and control budgets
• Successfully execute projects
• Stakeholder management
• Identify key stakeholders
• Set up clear communication channels with all stakeholders
• Assign tasks to vendors
• Support and guide stakeholders towards the common goals
• Ensure effective information flow to Customers
• Risk mitigation
• Pro-actively identify potential project risks
• Develop measures to minimize project disruptions
• Identify and implement strategic changes to mitigate risk in the long term

Competencies

• Structural Infrastructure Assessment
• Teamwork
• Risk Management
• Problem solving and decision making
• Stakeholder

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in managing contractors & budgets in technical environment (essential)
• Telecommunications Infrastructure experience (essential)
• Managing of tower modifications and customer applications.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• 3-year Degree/National Diploma e.g. BSc (Construction Management) or Project Management (essential)
• Drivers Licence Code 08 (essential)