Telecommunications Engineers

Telecommunication Engineers design and develop telecommunications systems, devices and products.

What the job involves

• Designs, builds, configures and commissions devices, networks and systems and ensures systems interconnect with equipment from different manufacturers, service providers and users

• Compiles proposals to define goals, identifies scope, background and need, and ascertains cost of the proposal

• Evaluates and procures new products and services

• Ensures compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures in the provision of systems

• Selects and develops new sites by locating sites, filing, drawing up, and drafting drawings, and following through to approval

• Determines appropriate configurations of hardware and software, ensuring desired performance of equipment

• Prepares and interprets specifications, drawings and regulations for the use of equipment

• Determines the type and arrangement of circuits, transformers, circuit-breakers, transmission lines and equipment

• Identifies and analyses problems and needs of existing systems, to determine the most appropriate means of reducing, eliminating and avoiding current and future problems and improve communications

• Monitors systems to assess need for updates, upgrades, enhancements, preventive maintenance and new systems

• Assesses performance levels of system hardware and software to project future needs, and develops short and long-terms plans for updating equipment, adding capabilities, enhancing existing systems and providing improved telecommunications