Radio Coverage Planning Specialist

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**About this role**

**Radio Coverage Planning Specialist**

Bristol / Solihull - Hybrid remote with office

We are responsible for ensuring that our customers have mobile network coverage, capacity and services where they need it, without incurring unnecessary costs. We achieve this by monitoring and understanding our mobile radio access network, programmes of work, strategic requirements, designs, and operational requirements then planning network rollout and modification for optimal cost/benefit/customer experience.

BT Networks has been evolving more into the data driven mindset necessary to keep us ahead of the competition - and the RCP Specialist is centre to this.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**

What I’ll be doing - your accountabilities
- Act as a technical expert, working with other teams across the business and with other companies, and providing technical support and guidance to other team members.
- Develop and continually improve processes and methodologies used within the team.
- Clearly present the results of analysis to support senior management in strategic decision making.
- Providing coverage impact assessment analysis using Asset and ATOL planning tools.
- Supporting Internal customer queries in regards of coverage assessment for both stratigc programs, business opportunities or specific single queries.
- Supporting the delivery of different BT programs such as Single Rural Network and ESN.
- One of the main focus will be Supporting/building a Drone Network (Future Flights).
- Reporting on the coverage improvements within BT Network for all technologies (2G, 4G, 5G).
- Providing HO with BT planning Data on a regular bases.
- Working closely with IoT team to deliver the technology where required from the business.
- Supporting the business with new coverage opportunity evaluation.
- Small Cell long term planning
- Actual and forecasted Coverage Reporting across multiple technologies.
- Governance around Coverage guideline and Radio emission compliance.

**You'll have the following skills & experience**
- More than 5 years experience in the radio planning space.
- Experience in planning small cells.
- Strong experience of using tools for radio planning analysis such as ATOLL/ASSETT with particular focus on Automatic Cell Planning module.
- Experience in using visualisation tools sush as QGIS or ARCGIS for more complex data elaboration.
- Good experience of mobile Radio antenna configurations.
- Experience with coding such as Python language or similar and GIS data analysis skills.
- Experience in PCI/RSI planning.
- Experience with Radio network compliance (ICNIRP, GA drawings)
- Experience with Coverage modelling for all technologies 2G/3G/4G/5G

**Benefits**

25 days annual leave

10% target bonus

Strong pension scheme (5% from you, BT contributes 10%)

Option to join BT share schemes

Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc

Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products

Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile

Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces which have opened in London and will open later this year in Bristol. Check them out Our new office environments

Hybrid working - the world of work is changing and so is the expectation to come into the office 5 days a week. We operate smartly and you can work a mixture of at home or in the office to suit the needs of your role and your team

Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network

**About BT**

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.

We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

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