TP07 - TELECOMUNICATIONS ENGINEER (1) ( Permanent and Pensionable)
Employment Type: Permanent and Pensionable
Location: Zambia Region-Bwana Mkubwa, Ndola
Closing Date: July 03, 2026
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Job Description
To supervise and undertake the installation, maintenance and repair of communication equipment and systems for the Zambian Region in order to ensure effective communication along the pipelines, thereby facilitating and monitoring the transportation process.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintenance Planning: Undertakes the development and implementation of preventive maintenance programmes on telecommunications equipment in order to ensure their working order
- Installations and Modifications: Undertakes timely installations and commissioning of new communication systems and equipment and modifications of existing ones in order to facilitate their use and continuity of operations
- Repairs: Supervises and undertakes the repair of breakdowns on communications equipment in order to prevent disruptions of operations
- Requisition of Materials: Supervises and undertakes periodically the requisition of spares and inputs in order to meet sectional requirements
- Sectional Budgeting: Undertakes efficiently, forecasting of requirements, scheduling expenses and creating budgets in order to facilitate resource mobilization
- Induction of operations Staff: Supervises timely, the induction of operations staff to new installations and modifications of telecommunications systems, in order to build capacity to utilize equipment efficiently and safely
- Quality Control: Checks and ensures regularly that all works done at workshops and field conform to appropriate engineering standards in order to ensure their quality and durability
- Maintenance of safety: Ensures that safety gear and equipment are available and safety regulations are followed at all working sites in order to facilitate the well-being of staff.
- Performance Management: Undertakes the implementation of performance management systems in order monitor and evaluate performance and develop remedial measures.
Minimum Qualifications
- Full Grade Twelve (12) School Certificate
- BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering or Equivalent
- Member of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ)
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to prepare technical and analytical reports
- Excellent oral skills
- Creative problem solving and troubleshooting
- Excellent critical thinking and computation skills
- Strong supervisory and team working skills.
Minimum Experience Required
- Minimum of three (3) years of relevant work experience with experience on PABX, digital radio and satellite communications, voice and data communications.