Confidential
Job Description
Role title:
Principal Transmission Planning Engineer
Reports to:
Head of Capacity Planning
Function:
GGS:
GGS14
Location:
Organisation
structure &
department profile:
Version number:
V1
Network Design,
Planning and
Deployment (NDPD)
Amersham / Langley /
Reading
The Capacity Planning Team is responsible for the capacity
management (monitoring, analysis, forecasting, planning and
reporting) of the shared 3G RAN, mobile backhaul and backbone
transmission networks to shareholder requirements and agreed
performance targets.
The Capacity Planning Team reports directly to Director of Network
Design, Planning and Deployment.
Director:
Keith Groombridge
Date:
HR Partner:
Sarah Molloy
Date:
Created by:
Role purpose:
Key Responsibilities
& Accountabilities:
(In priority order)
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Responsible for the proactive capacity management (monitoring,
analysis, forecasting, planning and reporting) of the mobile
backhaul and backbone transmission networks to shareholder
requirements and agreed performance targets.
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Responsible for owning the detailed capacity planning processes
for the shared backhaul and backbone transmission networks.
Producing and maintaining Capacity Plans (including deployment
and upgrade requirements) for the mobile backhaul and backbone
transmission networks.
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Responsible for driving the evolution of capacity management
capability in MBNL based on industry best practice and excellent
execution.
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Responsible for ensuring transmission capacity planning process
and associated guidelines are followed by transmission planning
and implementation teams.
Ensuring transmission capacity is planned to meet MBNL targets.
Responsibility to identify the capacity upgrades required and work
with delivery teams to ensure these are progressed with
appropriate priority.
Responsible for forecasting transmission capacity requirements
and supporting the capex budgeting process.
Ensuring MBNL has access to comprehensive regular reports on
capacity deployed, utilised and elements where capacity
thresholds are breached and identifying new reporting
requirements to meet business objectives
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15/12/14
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Key Challenges:
(in priority order)
People
Management:
Other People Mgt
comments:
Financial:
Other Financial
Impact comments:
(Name)
Be the MBNL technical point of contact on backbone transmission
and Multi Service Network capacity planning.
Ensuring the requirements for new capacity solutions and
guidelines are raised with design teams and given appropriate
priority.
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Establishing robust capacity planning processes against a
background of changing shareholder requirements, evolving
network design and supplier capabilities.
 Meeting stretching congestion targets with available budget.
 Ensuring capacity issues are given appropriate priority and not
exacerbated by rollout projects.
 Modelling the forecasted capacity and budget required.
 Influencing the prioritisation of new capacity designs and
guidelines.
 Exceeding the expectations of our shareholders.
Line Manager?
No
Virtual (project) Manager of people?
Yes
Responsible for:
allocation of work (task based)
Yes
setting direction (objective based)
Contributing
performance management
no
recruitment
no
absence management
no
No of direct reports:
0
Overall team size (headcount):
0
Part of team of 5.
Budget manager
no
OPEX responsibility
£
direct / indirect / n/a
CAPEX responsibility £
direct / indirect / n/a
P&L responsibility
£
direct / indirect / n/a
Awareness and maintain control of project costs.
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Key Relationships:
(level, nature &
purpose)
within own function:
 Up to Director / Managing Director: recipient of cascaded work
priorities and communicating back progress, escalating issues etc.
 Colleagues: collaboration, negotiation and influencing to progress
work with optimum efficiency.
across other function:
 Up to Director: negotiating and influencing priorities and
dependencies. Communicating requirements and investment
choices.
 Design teams: negotiating, influencing and communicating
requirements.
external suppliers:
 Instruction of external suppliers of transmission planning services,
where applicable, to time cost and quality. Ensuring that the
planning guidelines are understood and correctly acted upon.
external customers:
 Peer relationship with MBNL shareholders. Negotiating and
influencing requirements. Communicating progress.
Other key relationship comments:
Key MBNL
behaviours
One Team: Part of the MBNL family, we support each other
Take Responsibility: No sloping shoulders. Be accountable for your
own actions. Don’t pass on problems.
Be clear: Provide clear instructions or requests, simplify the complex.
Think about the audience you are communicating to.
Critical Knowledge
& Experience (non
time related):
professional / technical
must have:
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nice to have:
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University/College degree or degree calibre
preferably from telecommunications or
Transmission Engineering background.
Significant transmission planning experience in
mobile or fixed telecoms
Experience of leased line and Ethernet/IP
transmission technology and systems.
Strong Technical knowledge and experience of
MPLS, and IP Router systems.
Excellent knowledge of transmission and circuit
planning tools.
Significant capacity management experience of
multi service transmission networks with growing
traffic.
Good IT skills. Excel for processing and
modelling data. Ability to prepare PowerPoint
slides to present analysis.
Technical knowledge and experience of GPRS,
GSM, UMTS, HSPDA, LTE.
Experience of BT’s managed Ethernet service
(MEAS).
Experience of Huawei router equipment.
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Proven transmission experience
leading responsibilities.
with
team
business / context
must have:
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nice to have:
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Skills and
knowledge:
Any other
comments:
(Name)
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Excellent technical and data analysis skills.
Strong interpersonal skills for dealing with the
shareholders and directing suppliers.
Decisive. Ability to make decisions with limited
information.
Being proactive: taking the lead, stepping outside
own role and going the extra mile when
necessary to achieve the objective.
Resourcefulness: getting or finding information
and filling in the gaps.
Innovative: figuring out new/original ways of
tackling challenges.
Customer (shareholder) focussed.
Flexibility and being able to build new working
and effective relationships quickly in highly
dynamic structure.
Commercial awareness.
Planning & Organising
Working Collaboratively
Influencing & Persuading
Delivery of Results
Focusing on the Customer
Amersham / Langley / Reading based with travel to other UK
locations.
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