RF Optimization Engineer

Apply effective tuning measures to improve 2G/3G network KPIs including Call Failure Rate (CFR), Call Drop Rate (CDR), Handover Success Rate, Soft Handover Success Rate, Location Area update, Paging Success rate and CSSR and HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS KPI’s.
Outline and provide short term network capacity studies for the required 2G/3G expansions ensuring network performance in alignment with marketing promotions and subscriber growth.
Initiate and participate in trials for new products, features and projects.
Enhance competitive position and participation in clusters and major roads optimization campaigns and bench marking against other operators through drive test and performance monitoring.
Actively participate in resolving customers’ complaints
Solve and correct radio network problems according to agreed timing and standards set, to detect and highlight radio network deficiencies and to some extent predict future degradations
Apply frequency re-tuning and antenna optimization in coordination with Radio Network Design (RND)
Co-ordinate with the RF planning, Rollout teams to ensure new sites have acceptable performance.
Prepare technical reports and conduct presentation related to the Section’s activities, achievements and outstanding issues.
Design and review regular drive test routes; performs field drive test measurement and analysis.
Provide drive test and performance monitoring of re-homed sites and new BSC/RNC through co-ordination with capacity planning in short term re-homing and new BSC/RNC plans and approvals.

Skills

University Degree in Electrical Engineering
Minimum 1 to 2 years experience Mobile industry
Good computer skills.
Good knowledge in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power Point.
Experience in drive test tools as TEMS, OSS and MapInfo
Good in Arabic & English, reading, writing, & oral.