Network Engineer | Mining Career at FQM, Kansanshi, Solwezi, Zambia

Requisition Number: JR894 | Country: Zambia | Contract Type: On-going | Location: Solwezi | Categories: Information technology

Overall Job Purpose

To be responsible for designing, supporting, monitoring and maintaining WAN and LAN networks across KML Mine and supporting sites, including other Zambian regional offices
Ensure operational/technical support and monitoring for facilities hosting network infrastructure across all areas is in place
Interacting with internal customers as well as various other technology vendors or groups in planning works

Specific Job Responsibility

Administer and support network systems, including designing, building, tuning, backup and recovery
Provide technical consultation in the design and development of infrastructure network systems to ensure a robust and stable environment.
Participate in formulating and implementing IT standards and policies to support the operational environment
Develop and maintain technical documentation to facilitate consistency and quality of installations, systems upgrades and recovery/ repair.
Develop and implement processes to assist with problem management, change management and performance monitoring to support effective operational management
Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor and troubleshoot issues as they arise, including ad-hoc desktop or printer support as required

Job Specific Competencies

Troubleshooting & administration of routers, switches, OLT, ONU together with supervisor
To complete wireless site surveys for both Point to Point links and Wireless LAN implementations
Supervise optical fibre splicing, dome joint installations, and testing/reporting of completed works
Maintain Ethernet and Fibre Optic structured cabling, infrastructure labelling and network documentation to standard required
Maintain and/or troubleshoot Unifi AP and Unifi Air Fibre including channel optimization, radio interference and air optimization
Ensure that all work is captured using the ticketing system
Network daily health checks
Provide support for network infrastructure in an on-call rotation
Adhering to and implementing Group ICT standards and policies

Experience Required To Perform In This Job

The Network Engineer will require knowledge, skills and experience in the following areas:

Strong Cisco networking skills in routing & switching, wireless and voice
VLAN and spanning tree implementations
Competent in subnetting and VLSM
Understanding of how VOIP solutions integrate with the LAN
Diagnosing and troubleshooting issues in an IPv4 environment including fault finding possible TCP port issues at edge firewalls and escalating accordingly
Competent in copper cable terminations and fibre optic splicing
Excellent networking documentation skills aligned to FQM requirements
Team lead experience with skills to plan and develop network infrastructure
Extensive networking knowledge and at least 5 years’ experience, preferably within an African mining environment

Qualifications