RF Wireless Field Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

RF Connect LLC is a leader in the design, deployment, and support of high-performance wireless networks and solutions. 

Who We Are

Our philosophy is simple – hire the best people, do the best work, and set the standard for the industry. This is precisely what has fueled our success.  RF Connect hires only top-caliber associates. If you combine excellent character, strong work ethic, great references, an intelligent logical mind, great communication, and people skills. 

We offer a top environment, a great education, and solid compensation in exchange for very hard work, customer devotion, productivity, and teamwork.

 

Go to www.rfconnect.com/careers to apply

Job Description

  • Provide leadership in the direction, assignment, and completion of deployment engineering tasks for RF Connect’s pre and post sales DAS and general RF business.
  • Lead the operation of project Warranty, Monitoring and Maintenance contracts. 
  • Ensure delivery dates are met for internal and external deployment activities. 
  • Review and approve data before release from Engineering. 
  • Provide pre-sales support by conducting site evaluations to assess coverage and facility conditions and DAS constructability as necessary. 
  • Collect and process data with mobile software and phones for both baseline benchmarking and post-DAS verification. 
  • Post-Install commissioning and optimization as required. 
  • Assist in development of RF Connect staff and manage and cross-train in location-based services and wireless LAN technologies. 
  • Provide leadership in managing and resolving Maintenance issues and scheduled Preventative Maintenance activities. 
  • Perform CW - RF path lost testing to validate system designs on customer premises.
  • Utilize iBwave design software to predict RF propagation as needed.
  • Prepare and review BOMs and design presentations as needed.
  • Recommendations to customers, account managers, and RF Connect management.
  • Document designs and follow-up with project support during Deployment phase.
  • Perform on-site commissioning and optimization.
  • Give feedback of performance of deployment engineers.
  • Train and mentor, Quality supervisor of deployment engineers.
  • Set the right policies and procedures for consistency amongst the group.
  • Define best practices to ensure the most time efficient and quality deployments.
  • Be reasonable for maintaining and beating project budgets for services performed and deployments.
  • Ensure and audit quality workmanship on the team.
  • Perform on-site site surveys to include constructability and RF benchmarking as required.
  • Balance competing requirements between projects, PMs, Sales, Maintenance SLAs, and find solutions to provide services while balancing business needs.

Qualifications

  • Highly organized, capable of managing multiple tasks with strong organizational skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Administrative timeliness and excellence
  • Customer facing skills
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Leadership by example
  • Responsible for all test equipment, tools, vehicles, (location, condition, calibrations etc.)
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • DAS – Commscope/Andrew, Corning/Mobile Access, Tyco or equivalent
  • iBwave
  • JDSU, Invex, or similar
  • AutoCAD
  • Engineering/Estimating experience
  • Wireless RF systems

Additional Information

Education/Vocational Training/Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience – Electronics or Computer Science
  • Verbal, written and numerical communication skills
  • Strong capabilities on personal computers, test equipment, and software applications
  • 5 years DAS experience preferred