Specialist: Radio Planning
Dar es Salaam
Role Purpose and Key Responsibilities
Role Purpose:
The Mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) Engineer is responsible for the design, planning, optimization, and evolution of 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to ensure optimal coverage, capacity, service quality, and customer experience. The role supports network performance through activities such as radio network planning, dimensioning, frequency planning, traffic forecasting, capacity and coverage analysis, performance evaluation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and efficient network services.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform radio network planning and dimensioning for new and existing sites.
- Conduct coverage and capacity analysis using planning tools (e.g., Atoll)
- Design radio solutions for network expansion, modernization, and technology upgrades.
- Prepare frequency plans, neighbor relations, and parameter configurations.
- Analyze traffic trends and forecast future capacity requirements.
- Evaluate network performance KPIs and recommend optimization actions.
- Support site acquisition teams with candidate evaluation and coverage predictions.
- Develop propagation models and perform coverage simulations.
- Ensure alignment between planned and deployed network configurations.
- Participate in network rollout, integration, commissioning, and acceptance activities.
- Generate planning reports and provide recommendations to management.
- Collaborate with optimization, transmission, deployment, and operations teams.
Knowledge, Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- Professional certifications in mobile technologies are advantageous.
- 2–5 years in radio planning, optimization, or network engineering.
- Experience with mobile network deployments and performance analysis.
- Radio network planning and optimization.
- GSM, UMTS, LTE, and 5G NR technologies.
- RF propagation and link budget analysis.
- Frequency and interference management.
- Antenna systems and RF design.
- KPI analysis and performance monitoring.
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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