Radio Frequency Planning Engineer

Job summary

Analyze RF capacity, traffic, coverage, and performance, identify network issues, and recommend upgrades or new-site solutions. Prepare and validate RF designs, compliance studies, technical bills of materials, and engineering records across customer systems.

Job details

Key Responsibilities: Perform RF capacity, traffic, coverage and performance analysis. Identify coverage and capacity issues and recommend radio upgrades, carrier additions, spectrum additions, sector changes, or new-site solutions. Prepare RF Qualifications, coverage objectives, search maps, candidate assessments, coverage plots, and Proposed Antenna Layouts. Create, review, validate, and revise Final Cell Designs, including antenna, radio, baseband, sector, azimuth, height, tilt, MIMO, and connectivity information. Perform or review Safety Code 6 studies, exposure calculations, site models, mitigation requirements, compliance reports, and professional engineering stamping packages. Support related compliance activities, including PIM assessments, airport runway pre-operation reports, EMCAB attestations, and antenna installation audits. Create and validate RF and technical Bills of Materials, ensuring consistency with planning specifications, FCDs, SC6 reports, and approved hardware configurations. Review antenna-placement, spacing, height, azimuth, radio, power, and configuration changes. Maintain accurate engineering information in ADM, Remedy, Jira, SharePoint, NetCracker, and other customer systems. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Wireless Communications, or a related discipline. Five or more years of experience in RF planning, RAN design, wireless engineering, or a related field with Canadian cellular operators Knowledge of LTE and 5G NR radio-network planning and design. Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: RF Qualification and coverage analysis RF planning specifications Final Cell Design CivilSub or RF work-order design Safety Code 6 or RF exposure compliance

What you’ll do

Analyze RF capacity, traffic, coverage, and performance, identify network issues, and recommend upgrades or new-site solutions. Prepare and validate RF designs, compliance studies, technical bills of materials, and engineering records across customer systems.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, wireless communications, or a related discipline is required, along with at least five years of relevant experience with Canadian cellular operators. Candidates need LTE and 5G NR planning knowledge and hands-on experience with RF qualification, coverage analysis, cell design, CivilSub or RF work orders, or Safety Code 6 compliance.

Listed skills

• Planning · Preferred
• Compliance · Preferred
• Customer · Preferred
• materials · Preferred
• Technical · Preferred
• Upgrades · Preferred
• safety · Preferred
• analysis · Preferred
• Configuration · Preferred
• discipline · Preferred
• Jira · Preferred
• SharePoint · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• RF Capacity And Traffic Analysis
• Coverage And Performance Analysis
• LTE And 5G NR Planning
• RAN Design
• RF Planning Specifications
• Final Cell Design
• Antenna Layout And Configuration
• Safety Code 6 Compliance
• RF Exposure Calculations
• PIM Assessments
• EMC Compliance
• Bill Of Materials Validation
• CivilSub Design
• Wireless Engineering

Job areas

• Engineering
• Technology
• Security & Safety

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