Darlington, England, United Kingdom
· Management of PMO and Governance within the region encompassing reporting, change, demand, radio strategy, site design, declaration, finance, and vendor management teams. · Rollout planning and delivery management of key strategic upgrade solutions on a wide scale covering the whole region. · Manage data build activities to provide accurate transmission and radio planning to support delivery of the sites/upgrades whilst tracking multiple company-wide programmes to avoid clashes (CRQ clashes, TX upgrades, Fixed network changes). · Provide input for capacity plans, including upgrades, cell splits and new coverage site requirements, based on analysis of existing hardware configurations. · Provide Radio weighting input to the Regional 3-year delivery plan targeting the right sites for delivery first, based on knowledge of existing configs and hardware against maturity of the delivery plan. · Creation and implementation of a Regional Plan of Intent to deliver against for the year as well as meeting company objectives. · Manage vendor equipment ordering and spend in line with contractual commitments. Also providing forecasting of requirements to stay ahead of lead times. · Organise projects and activities in line with the regional and company targets and SLA’s. · Interface with Radio Design and Vendors to support all new product introduction (NPI). · Ensure that project objectives and requirements are maintained and delivered. · Ensure that project databases are kept up to date by all stakeholders and that data integrity is maintained. · Provide accurate reports across multiple workstreams on a daily/weekly/monthly basis or as demand dictates. · Identify and champion improvements to existing deployment procedures. Where necessary create and implement new processes and procedures.
Responsible for pulling together radio planning teams from different organisations to work as a single team and develop a culture of excellence consistent with the Cornerstone values and objectives. Required to create and develop strong relationships both within Cornerstone but outward towards the optimisation teams of O2 and Vodafone. This involves agreeing and creating interface processes and a governance structure to ensure all parties can work together and resolve any issues in a quick and efficient way. Additionally to ensure all radio plans are created in accordance with the relevant demand requirements. All plans achieve a sensible and pragmatic commercial balance between investment and improved coverage. Ensuring all sites meet a minimum set of quality and performance criteria prior to transfer into the parent organisations. Responsible for: • Leading a team of radio planners, setting performance targets and objectives and driving best practise • Ensure all sites are planned to, and achieve clear coverage/capacity objectives and performance metrics and that all sites are selected with costs and timescales in mind. • Ensuring the team complete RF site selection within tight timescales to enable the remainder of the acquisition and build program is not delayed • Co-ordination of activities with Optimisation teams and assist with any site performance issues • Regularly review all key processes and ensure all are fit for purpose and consistent across own region and nationally. • Act as prime point of contact for escalation of all technical or project related issues within the team. • Actively support a culture and environment which fosters strong regional team spirit across all offices. • To communicate, coordinate and mange all Radio related priorities to the team
Develop optimisation strategies to improve network performance and exceed KPI targets. Monitor network performance by interrogating network counters to produce statistics. Conduct parametric trials to improve QOS and publish recommendations back into business. Identify elements causing degradation. Investigate causal reason, and raise recommendation with support for resolution. Recommend physical changes from analysis of RF environment. Neighbour List and Scrambling Code planning and optimisation. Data auditing of cell, site, relation, RNC and MSC parameters. Drive data analysis to improve RF environment by reducing pilot pollution, interference, and improving dominance and coverage levels. Analysis of failures (CS and PS) using L2/L3 messaging, GPEH, UETR and CETR. Produce reports on various aspects of network performance and activities for business discussions and publications. Define processes and procedures for integration and optimisation activities.
Planning and optimisation of WCDMA - UMTS(3g) network. Going from nominal plan, site identification, site design, planning, commissioning and integration of node B's. Acceptance onto the network and ongoing optimisation during the evolution of the first commercial 3g network in the world.