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Senior Specialist: Radio Planning and Optimisation

Posting Country:  South Africa
Date Posted:  27 Aug 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodacom, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference. 
 

 

When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1. 

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa. 
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2025.

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

 

To provide high level technical support in the Radio Planning and Optimisation environment and to correct network quality & RPO impacting problems

Your responsibilities will include:

 

  • Act as team leader for the regional planning & optimisation team
  • Perform network optimisation for RAN network, by consulting and advising @ Regional and County Level
  • Implementation & management of network parameters
  • Identify & rectify areas of poor network quality
  • Identification, planning and implementation of new RAN equipment to improve quality and support rollout.
  • Planning and integration of new sites, e.g. 2G, 3G and LTE within the Region and County
  • Implementation of network expansion plans
  • Manage higher order network entity planning & configuration
  • Liaison with central Project Management, Regional Property, Maintenance , Installation and Transmission departments and external contractors.
  • Conducted RAN coverage and capacity planning
  • Managed Network Performance
  • Provided Support
  • Maintained Planning Database
  • Forecasted Network Growth and Network Traffic Planning
  • Managed various high level projects
  • Involvement in Vodafone benchmarking and preparation at County and Regional Level
  • New Site Performance and Optimisation  - Ensure new sites are specifically tracked wrt performance to have minimal impact on the region, this also overlaps with the NED monitoring

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

 

  • 3 year Degree/National Diploma (minimum)
  • 5-8 years’ work experience in telecoms industry
  • Good knowledge of RF antennas and systems
  • Good knowledge and experience in ATOL planning tool
  • GSM / UMTS / LTE planning and optimisation principles
  • Project Management basic knowledge
  • Exposure to UMTS / LTE planning & optimisation tools.
  • Radio environment knowledge (RF)
  • Exposure to IP fundamentals
  • Huawei Equipment Knowledge preferable

 

We make an impact by offering:

  • Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
  • Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
  • Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

 

 

Closing date for Applications:03 September 2025. 


The base location for this role is Vodacom Port Elizabeth.


The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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