Project Manager - Radio & Wireless Communications
- ON, Canada
- Ontario, 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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- English
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Original 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 CapEx communications upgrades, ensuring high-availability trunked radio networks, emergency response channels, surface/underground wireless signal extensions, and microwave backhaul topologies.
Responsibilities
v Project Governance & Execution: Lead end-to-end Project Management Lifecycles for multi-million dollar telecommunications capital investments.
v Network Architecture & Deployment: Oversee complex upgrades of digital mobile radio (DMR) infrastructures, and distributed antenna systems (DAS).
v Change & Cutover Management: Develop and execute meticulous, zero-downtime maintenance and cutover windows for mission-critical health, safety, and production frequencies.
v Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all system parameters and spectrum allocations fully align with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) guidelines.
v Contract & Vendor Management: Manage international EPC contractors, specialized RF integration vendors, and hardware manufacturers tracking SLAs.
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.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead the planning, engineering coordination, deployment, and optimization of major telecommunications infrastructure projects, including digital radio networks, wireless extensions, and microwave backhaul. Manage project execution, cutovers, regulatory compliance, contractors, vendors, and service-level agreements for mission-critical communications systems.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, or a related discipline, at least 10 years of progressive project management experience in heavy industry or mining, and a PMP certification. Candidates must have relevant DMR or private LTE, RF, microwave backhaul, underground DAS, fiber transport, and spectrum management experience, as well as medical clearance for a FIFO schedule and strong professional English communication skills.
Skills
- Project Management
- Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
- Private LTE Networks
- RF Engineering
- Link Budgeting
- Propagation Modeling
- Spectrum Management
- Microwave Backhaul
- Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
- Fiber Transport Rings
- Cutover Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
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- Management & Leadership
- Engineering
- Technology
Keywords
- Digital Radio Systems
- Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
- Private LTE
- RF Engineering
- Link Budgets
- Propagation Modeling
- Spectrum Management
- Microwave Backhaul
- Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
- Fiber Transport Rings
- Structural Cabling
- Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
- Project Management Lifecycle
- Project Governance
- Change Management
- Cutover Management
- Zero-Downtime Maintenance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
- EPC Contractors
- Vendor Management
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Mining
- Heavy Industry
- Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO)