ESN Engineer - Isle of Skye

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Applications are open to candidates from the Isle of Skye area.

Salary: £33,000–£36,000 per annum + allowances 

About this opportunity:

As an ESN Engineer, you will own a designated group of sites, working as part of a four-person team covering adjacent territories. The role requires you to be self-managing, proactively maintaining your sites and collaborating closely with other ESN engineers and the wider FSO team to solve problems, with the goal of boosting network resilience and network availability.This position requires a flexible work schedule, including participation in a 24/7 on call rota and potential shift work to handle tasks outside of normal business hours. You must be prepared to travel and stay away from home for service recovery mainly on the remote islands. In a major network event scenario, you should be available to lead and complete the recovery in your own and adjoining areas

This role is based in Scotland and reports directly to the Regional Manager. We currently have vacancies in Isle of Skye! Applicants should already reside in, or be willing to relocate to the Isle of Skye area.

What you will do:

- Conduct corrective maintenance activities and manage site facility operations.

- The role requires you to take full responsibility for assigned Emergency Service Network (ESN) Sites, proactively maintaining them to prevent failures and leading the coordination with other technical team to resolve any issues that arise

- You must also take a leadership role in problem management for your area resolving major issues in your own and neighbouring areas

- Work individually, as part of the FSO and wider Ericsson teams to achieve right first time resolution of work within customer SLA’s without compromising safe working practices

- Carryout reactive and proactive maintenance on multi-customer, multi technology networks, achieving agreed performance targets (Mostly EE/ESN)

- Participate in a 24 x 7 callout rota covering all equipment in the Service Area 

- Assist in the development and review of FSO processes and procedures with a view to maximise efficiency

The skills you bring:

- Radio Frequency(RF) Transmission and Receiver systems employed in mobile communication equipment including

- AC/DC Power Systems (single phase and three phase)

- UPS systems and deployed ESN generators

- Satellite Backhaul systems

- Rectification and power distribution systems

- GSM, UMTS and LTE fundamentals

- Cellular Network Fundamentals. Mobility Management. Cell Planning

-Radio Access Network and Core Network architecture

- Antenna systems, Mast Head Amplifiers, Feeder systems and connectors