Fibre Planner

JOB TITLE: Fibre Planner

DIVISION/BUSINESS UNIT: Infrastructure Team

BASE: Edinburgh/Newbridge

SALARY: Dependant on experience

Job Purpose

The role of the Fibre Planner is to produce robust and cost-effective civils and fibre-optic infrastructure designs in accordance with defined methodologies, architecture, and project timelines.

Key Responsibilities

As a minimum you may be called upon to undertake all or some of these activities as required

  • To design suitable civils and fibre optic infrastructure which are cost-effective, fit-for-purpose and future-proof.
  • Core Network Design
  • Fibre Design – SLD’s, Fibre Allocation
  • To undertake Site Surveys in accordance with safety guidelines.
  • To forecast capex and opex requirements of designed infrastructure projects.
  • To produce detailed industry-standard documentation of that design.
  • To be rigorous with respect to data quality within the asset and customer management systems.
  • To drive consistency, quality, suitability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Produce bill of materials

Professional Profile

  • A background in Fibre Networks with an awareness of planning.
  • Civils and Cable Planning Knowledge including NRSWA and Street works practices
  • Ability to draw together different technical disciplines
  • External and internal planning experience and current knowledge of associated passive network elements and optical budget limitations
  • External site survey experience
  • Internal site Surveys Experience
  • Experience of PIA projects
  • Openreach Portal Experience
  • Planning knowledge to 3rd Party sites
  • Proven track record of planning successful projects
  • MS Office - Excel, Word, Visio
  • PIMS skills (Would be beneficial)
  • QGIS (Would be beneficial) 
  • NRSWA
  • PIA accreditation

 

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