Our client is looking for a Senior Network Enigneer
Service description:
Our client is implementing private satellite communication technology as backup for high voltage substation RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) and telephony communication. The service consists of following tasks:
Design and Implementation Engineering:
- Define in close collaboration with the contractors and stakeholders the design and implementation of the solution on different aspects:
- data traffic management
- network management system for configuration and supervision
- central hub configuration and supervision (the hub is already installed)
- antenna and modem installation and configuration in substations
- cabling and powering
- application connectivity
- configuration of transportable terminals
- Act as technical expert of Private Satellite Communication technology to challenge, validate and contribute to the design and implementation proposed by the contractors, and to drive issue resolution
- Act as single point of contact and coach to the various teams to adopt and implement this new technology within the company context
- Draft and execute the acceptance test plan in collaboration with the stakeholders
- Draft technical documentation, guidelines and procedures in collaboration with the stakeholders to start the mass roll-out in hundreds of sites
Technical Project Management Support:
- Collaborate with the project manager to define the project planning and priorities in collaboration with the main contractor, subcontractors and various stakeholders
- Participate to project follow up meetings with contractors and stakeholders to track project progress, discuss and solve issues, identify risks and bottlenecks
- Collaborate to the drafting and validation of bill of material proposals of the contractors
- Report on project progress, issues, risks
Additional information:
The Datacom department is in charge of: the datacom transport network for the IP networks and IT networks in general. The company has an extensive network of fibre and copper cables, supplemented by rented connections. The technologies in use that include PDH, SDH, DWDM, and IP/MPLS, the IP/Ethernet/WiFi networks used for telephony and core business needs (office network, real-time network, …) in all of it's administrative sites, data centres and dispatching offices, direct IP connections with other electricity transport, distribution and generation utilities, Internet connections, the protection and securing of the company networks with firewalls, DMZs (Demilitarised Zones), VPN concentrators, and similar, the networks connecting high-voltage substations and data centres for purposes of remote surveillance, telephony, meter readings, consulting disturbance recorders, … These networks are also used for communication between the electrical protection devices at different stations. Work has already begun to migrate these networks from TDM technology (PDH, SDH) to packet-switched technology (Ethernet, IP, MPLS), connections with other TSOs for remote surveillance, remote protection, and telephony.
Requirements:
- Hold a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, or have equivalent technical experience in this field
- Preferably have an all-round theoretical, practical and operational knowledge of private satellite communication technology
- Preferably have experience with implementation of private satellite communication or other μwave technology
- Able to assimilate new technical information quickly
- Strong analytical skills
- Very strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience with editing of technical architectural, design and implementation documentation
- Able to work independently and methodically
- Good project management and reporting skills
- Driver and leader mentality
- Team-player and willing to share knowledge
- Able to speak, read and write fluently in Dutch, French and English
- Hold a driver’s license B
