OSP Engineer / Technician Job at ipNX Nigeria Limited

ipNX is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology companies, serving a multitude of needs across enterprises, small businesses and residents with innovative, world-class services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: OSP Engineer / Technician
Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Site Survey and Design:


  • Conduct Site surveys for study and planning of new FTTH deployment.
  • Prepare Low Level Design of Civil and Fiber Infrastructure for
  • Optical Distribution Network (ODN) deployment to cover future demands.
  • FTTH Optical Distribution Network (ODN) planning, Cost estimation, Route Selection, fiber Management and Fiber Link Power Budgeting.
  • Prepare detailed FTTH design drawings including duct layouts and cabling layouts.
  • Preparation of BoM for FTTH OSP projects.
  • Preparation of High Level project scope description.
  • Preparation of fiber cabling plan and splice plans for FTTH projects.
  • Review of as-built drawings with FTTH roll-out team to ensure conformity with original design.
  • Planning and site selection of Central Offices (CO)
  • Design of Central Offices’ civil and fiber infrastructure.

Project Related Activities:

  • Pre-project discussions and co-ordination with FTTH roll-out team and OSP vendors.
  • Joint site walk-throughs with OSP Supervisor and contractor after kickoff meetings.
  • Conduct joint surveys with project team to resolve variation and change in scope issues.
  • Revise designs and BOMs and send in the documents for variation or scope change approval.

Accuracy of Planning and Design:

  • Accuracy of OSP design (measured by level of modification by Team lead required on the design before final submission to Head, Network Services Business Unit).
  • Accuracy of Bill of Materials within tolerance limits.
  • The percentage of time site surveys are done within schedule without un-necessary re-visits.
  • Accuracy of High level Descriptions (measured by level of modification required after submission to Team Lead)
  • Accuracy of Fibre Splice Plans

Educational Qualifications & Functional Skills

  • HND in Electrical / Electronics / Computer Engineering / Computer Science, Information Systems.
  • However, field experience for Non- science or engineering backgrounds can be considered.

Work Experience:

  • Experience using CAD (Autocad, Visio) and Microsoft office software.
  • Outside Plant Fibre experience – site surveys, fibre laying, splicing, termination, troubleshooting.
  • Ability to use fibre tools e.g optical power metre, light source and OTDR

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: amy4recruitment@gmail.com using the Job position as the subject of the email.