Our Technology team wakes up every day with one goal in mind - connecting Canadians to the people and things that matter most. Together, we are proud to support 30 million Canadians each month through managing a robust portfolio that champions leading-edge technology. We drive large-scale, complex, and high-visibility technology projects and programs that shape the future of technology in Canada and expand connectivity from coast to coast. If you are interested in being a part of this, consider applying for the following opportunity.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We are looking for talented individual for the role of Senior Wireless Access Planner in the Engineering team, who will be responsible for the short term and long term strategic market planning of the Wireless Access network in the West (AB, BC).

Analyze network needs in terms of capacity and coverage and plan existing site augmentations, new macro, new Inbuilding, new small cell to address network needs.

• Identify site capacity requirements (Macro and Inbuilding)
• Analyse low capacity / low throughput sites for capacity augmentation or capacity optimization
• Drive Radio Engineering for RF capacity optimization and track progress for implementation success
• Provide inputs to management for new capacity sites
• Localise immediate and event capacity requirement
• Identify sites requiring hot spot capacity
• Find technical solution for hot spot
• Cost estimate and CA for hot spots
• COW deployment
• Plan, budget and initiate expansion projects to support network evolution and to meet growing subscriber demand.
• Develop and analyze alternatives to recommend the most economical solution to meet departmental and organizational objectives regarding network expansion, subscriber growth and usage patterns.
• Technical review of existing and forecasted network performance which includes gathering input from network statistics, RF Engineering, CIP, Network Operations as well as Marketing.
• Work with RF Engineering to apply the appropriate actions to address any network capacity requirement and quality issues in a timely manner.
• Develop Three Year Network Capital Plan for Regions.
• Provide direction and guidance to Access Planners
• Recommend course of action to management to resolve capacity and technical issue within the access network. Provide comparison of costs and/or impact of these recommendations versus other options.
• Collaborate with Regional Network Implementation and RF team to communicate priorities, support and guidance for site acquisition, lease and design issues and to ensure timely delivery of planned programs.
• Conduct studies for special projects