Manager - Cable Landing Station.Bayobab

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job

To Manage the Submarine Cable Landing station by:
- Ensuring a high availability of the Submarine Cable system
- Maintenance of accurate system records such charts, Route Position Lists (RPL’s) and Straight-Line Diagram’s (SLD’s 
- 24X7 Operation of the submarine cable system 
- Delivering Maintenance Authority roles and responsibilities
- Ensuring day to day management and governance of the TX operations in accordance with set KPI’s and objectives
 

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
The Manager, CLS will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:
- Manage Cable submarine Staff to ensure Maintenance authority Key performance indicators are met
- Configuration of the Submarine Cable system
- Report regularly and comprehensively on the progress and activities of the TX nodes
- Ensure Disaster recovery plan (DRP) of CLS network is updated, maintained and tested by Managed service provider
- Contractual issues and which Maintenance Authority MA is responsible for what segment
- Manage the integrity of the CLS Network data configuration and software configurations
- Details on the wet plant and terminal station equipment
- The spare cable and jointing kit stock levels and replacement policy
- Day to day correspondence, administration, operation and maintenance of the wet plant
- Repair planning and management, such as stock control
- Maintenance & Improvement (M&I) work
- Preventative maintenance and cable protection, such as fishing and offshore Liaison
- Invoicing and record maintenance
- Preparation of budgetary estimates for activities and keeping records of actual costs
- Submission of reports to the O&MSC, NOC or Management Committee as required
- Settlement of third party claims to a set limit (fishing gear or anchors)
- Management of crossing agreements for other cables & pipelines
- Responsibility for decommissioning/retirement of wet plant
- Fault localisation and ship call out arrangements

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- Network Customer experience 
- high availability of the Submarine Cable system
- Excellent analytics of CLS network performance.
- Timely delivery of integrated PPPs with Managed service provider PPPs.
- Efficient communication 
- Record keeping of all plans, documents and policies
- Support implementation process and upgrade of the connecting terrestrial networks

Role Dependencies

Creativities
- Excellent leadership skills and hands on approach to work.
- A good understanding of the telecommunication and ICT industry 
- Strong collaboration with all departmental heads.
- Excellent management of stakeholder relationships
- Excellent understanding of the direction of the business
- Continuously improving the automation of systems to enable the network to be managed efficiently.
- Develop creative methods to change the paradigm for improved cost effectiveness
- Ability to read and understand maps
- Good understanding of maritime operations and laws

Vulnerabilities 
- Poor management of stakeholder relationships
- Poor leadership skills
- Poor understanding of the direction of the business
- Lack of understanding of the telecommunication and ICT industry 
- Vendor dependency
- Competitive labour market nationally and Internationally for Telecoms competent staff
- Suppliers not meeting contractual obligations
- Poor Network performance will increase the likely hood of churn with reduced revenues.
 

Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education: 
- Minimum . Electrical/Electronic Engineering or an equivalent qualification.
- English – Fluent
Experience: 
- Five years’ hands-on experience in the technical operational telecoms GSM industry.2 years of which must have been in a supervisory role.
- Relevant experience in Subsea Cable systems
Competencies: 
Professional competencies:
- Adequate Knowledge in Telecommunication fundamentals
- Adequate knowledge in network system technologies like GSM, WCDMA, Transmission and, IP networks, etc…
- Adequate knowledge of Ericsson and Huawei BTS
- Adequate Knowledge of network coverage and capacity
- In-depth Knowledge of Radio Network management tools
- In depth knowledge in operating systems (Windows, Linux & Unix)

- In-depth knowledge of ITU/ETSI /3GPP/IEEE standards
- Ability to set objectives and targets that is beneficial to the smooth running of the network and monitor progress against them.
- Innovative self-starter able to face the challenges of evolving technology re-evaluating objectives, procedures, processes to continuously improve network performance.
- Ability to guide others in analyzing complex network related problems
- Adequate knowledge of environmental, health, and safety policies and practices
- Ability to produce accurate, punctual and detailed work plan
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people
- Adequate knowledge in Project management
- Adequate knowledge in Vendor management
- Adequate Knowledge in financial management, budgeting and expenditure control
- Adequate Knowledge in project management principles

Skills & Physical Competencies:
- Ability to manage self and team performance and workload and juggle conflicting priorities
- Demonstrate evidence of influencing and coaching skills
- Ability to accept responsibility 
- Assertive, Self-starter, Proactive, Innovative, Attention to detail 
- Professional approach with a can do attitude
- Innovative, takes initiative, result oriented and develops self consistently
- Leadership, customer centricity, collaborative, ability to coach & develop direct reports
- Trustworthy, integrity and ethical in dealings
- Good written and verbal communication, and commitment to the organization
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Skill in negotiation
- Adequate Knowledge in business continuity management
- Ability to manage internal and external forces???
- Business acumen
- Skill in forecasting
- Skill in records/documentation keeping
- Ability to identify, analyze and solve problems
- Ability to set and manage measurable objectives and targets in crucial areas that impact performance
- Ability to follow processes and make improvement.