Technical Lead Engineer - Radio

Project Coordination & Planning

• Attend project calls and deployment meetings.
• Interpret technical requirements and installation scope from customers.
• Cascade requirements to internal engineers and subcontractors.
• Liaise with PMO and deployment teams to ensure resource alignment.
Technical Oversight
• Validate site survey outputs (heat maps, floor plans).
• Identify potential pitfalls and blockers before installation.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and customer specifications.
Site Engagement
• Ensure site familiarisation
• Conduct occasional site visits for complex projects.
• Perform pre-installation checks and visual walkthroughs.
Documentation & Reporting
• Gather engineering feedback and prepare close-out documentation.
• Maintain technical records and ensure timely submission to customers.
Subcontractor Liaison
• Communicate installation plans, cable runs, antenna placements.
• Provide technical guidance and resolve issues on-site
• Assist with pre-sales support including system surveys, system design, specification, and documentation.
• Design and commissioning of all aspects of PMR, DMR, telemetry radio & microwave infrastructure.
• Supporting and maintaining Motorola radio systems.
• Liaise with customers in respect of system reporting, performance, and maintenance issues.
• Prepare suitable and sufficient H&S documentation to meet customer requirements.
• Maintain standards of technical excellence within the department.
• Ensure a full understanding of products and services are cascaded through the organisation.
• Contribute to bid support and evaluation.
• Post-Sales support, including customer training.
• Support and coach other members of the team
• May be required to Participation on the standby rotas in the region
• Ensure all documentation is completed and returned in a timely manner.
• Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines are adhered to at all times.
• Actively seek and exploit earning opportunities for the company.
• Any other reasonable duties and responsibilities considered appropriate by the management of the company.
  
  At least 5 years' experience of the two-way radio communications industry including Motorola PMR, DMR, Tetra, Radio Telemetry or Microwave Systems
• Knowledge, experience & understanding of IP based technologies including routing, switching and VoIP.
• Experience of Distributed Antenna Systems, both Active and Passive, VHF, UHF, Cellular
• Detection and resolution of RF interference & intermodulation
• Cell Enhancer utilisation, commissioning and methods of limiting RF pollution
• 2G/3G/4G in-building coverage techniques
• EMF testing, calculations, and measurement to ICNIRP guidelines for OFCOM compliance · Proven experience of project design and management.
• Competent to produce H&S documentation.
• Able to work at heights and in confined spaces.
• Able to work under own initiative to deadlines.
• Able to work away from home
• Ability to work as part of the existing team, also display high degree of autonomy
• Willing to undergo security assessment/vetting
• Good written and verbal communications skills.
• Ensure a right first-time approach is mandated in the department.
• Full UK driving licence
• Valid UK Passport
• Willingness to Travel in the UK and Europe
Desirable:
• Experience of LV electrical systems installation & maintenance
• Control & Automation/SCADA
• Communications protocols & networks (TCP/IP, MODBUS, Profibus, RS232)
• Trbonet / Windows Server / SQL Server proficiency
• RF over Fibre experience, system design, and commissioning.
• Duplexer, combiner & filter design & tuning
• Able to work to component level
• CCNA trained
• PASMA trained
• HNC Electrical/Electronics or equivalent experience
• Confined space trained.
• CSCS/EUSR/SHEA trained holding a current card.