Project Manager - Radio & Wireless Communications
- NL, Canada
- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Canada
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- Experience: Minimum 10+ years of progressive project management experience within heavy industrial or mining settings.
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Original job description
Position: Project Manager - Radio & Wireless Communications
Location: Voisey's Bay, Canada Hybrid
Duration: Long Term Contract
Mandatory skills*
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience: Minimum 10+ years of progressive project management experience within heavy industrial or mining settings.
- Proven experience delivering industrial-grade Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), or private LTE networks.
- Solid understanding of RF engineering principles, link budgets, propagation modeling, and spectrum management.
- Hands-on expertise managing microwave backhaul links and underground distributed antenna systems (DAS).
- Adept at managing structural cabling, high-availability fiber transport rings, and technical work packages.
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) is required.
- Logistical Capability: Comfort and medical clearance for a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) operational schedule.
- Language Skills: Exceptional professional written and verbal English communication capabilities.
Job Description:
- Project Manager – Digital Radio Systems is responsible for leading the strategic planning, engineering coordination, deployment, and optimization of critical telecommunications infrastructure at Voisey’s Bay. This position focuses on the execution of heavy Cap Ex communications upgrades, ensuring high-availability trunked radio networks, emergency response channels, surface/underground wireless signal extensions, and microwave backhaul topologies.
Responsibilities
- Project Governance & Execution: Lead end-to-end Project Management Lifecycles for multi-million dollar telecommunications capital investments.
- Network Architecture & Deployment: Oversee complex upgrades of digital mobile radio (DMR) infrastructures, and distributed antenna systems (DAS).
- Change & Cutover Management: Develop and execute meticulous, zero-downtime maintenance and cutover windows for mission-critical health, safety, and production frequencies.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all system parameters and spectrum allocations fully align with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) guidelines.
- Contract & Vendor Management: Manage international EPC contractors, specialized RF integration vendors, and hardware manufacturers tracking SLAs.
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Responsibilities
Lead the planning, engineering coordination, deployment, and optimization of telecommunications capital projects, including digital radio networks, distributed antenna systems, and microwave backhaul. Manage project execution, cutovers, regulatory compliance, contractors, vendors, and service-level agreements for mission-critical communications infrastructure.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, or a related discipline, a PMP certification, and at least 10 years of progressive project management experience in heavy industrial or mining settings. Candidates need experience with industrial DMR or private LTE networks, RF engineering, microwave backhaul, underground DAS, cabling and fiber systems, and must be able to meet FIFO schedule and medical-clearance requirements.
Skills
- Project Management
- Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
- Private LTE Networks
- RF Engineering
- Link Budgeting
- Propagation Modeling
- Spectrum Management
- Microwave Backhaul
- Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
- Structural Cabling
- Fiber Transport Rings
- Change and Cutover Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Contract and Vendor Management
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
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- Management & Leadership
- Engineering
- Technology
- Energy
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Project Management
- PMP
- Capital Expenditure Projects
- Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
- Private LTE
- RF Engineering
- Link Budgets
- Propagation Modeling
- Spectrum Management
- Microwave Backhaul
- Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
- Underground Wireless
- Structural Cabling
- Fiber Transport Rings
- High-Availability Networks
- Cutover Management
- Zero-Downtime Maintenance
- ISED Guidelines
- EPC Contractors
- RF Integration
- Vendor Management
- Mining
- Heavy Industry
- FIFO