Background

TAZAMA Pipelines Limited is a company involved in the transportation of products through pipelines. This role is for a Telecommunications Engineer in the Tanzania Region, a permanent and pensionable position. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring the functionality of telecommunications systems that facilitate monitoring and product transportation along the pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning: Undertakes effectively 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, modifications of existing ones in order to facilitate their use and continuity of operations.
• Repairs: Supervises and undertakes promptly, 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

• Form VI Certificate
• BSc Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
• Member of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB)

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to write technical and analytical reports
• Strong supervisory and team working skills
• Excellent critical thinking and computation skills
• Creative problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Computer Aided Design skills
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written in English and Swahili

Minimum Experience Required

• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience

• Undertakes effectively the development and implementation of preventive maintenance programmes on telecommunications equipment in order to ensure their working order.
• Undertakes timely installations and commissioning of new communication systems and equipment, modifications of existing ones in order to facilitate their use and continuity of operations.
• Supervises and undertakes promptly, the repair of breakdowns on communications equipment in order to prevent disruptions of operations.
• Supervises and undertakes periodically the requisition of spares and inputs in order to meet sectional requirements.
• Undertakes efficiently, forecasting of requirements, scheduling expenses and creating budgets in order to facilitate resource mobilization.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Undertakes the implementation of performance management systems in order monitor and evaluate performance and develop remedial measures.

• Able to write technical and analytical reports
• Strong supervisory and team working skills
• Excellent critical thinking and computation skills
• Creative problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Computer Aided Design skills
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written in English and Swahili

• Form VI Certificate
• BSc Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
• Member of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB)