Telecome Engineer

Location: Cairo, EgyptThales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.Thales has built a presence in Egypt for over 40 years and has today over 100 employees. Thales in Egypt is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE.Together We delivered fare collection and control and communication systems for the first metro line in Africa, Metro Line 1 in Cairo. Since then we have continued to bring growth and security and safety to the country by upgrading these transportation systems as well as providing solutions for customers in air traffic management, air defence and Navy.

Primary Purpose of the Role:
To manage the Systems Engineering Process to company and international standards for defined packages of work.  To provide line management and technical leadership to Systems Engineers.
The Lead Systems Engineer typically works with a team of engineers to define what will be designed, how it will perform and how it will be determined that it is working correctly.
Principal Relationships:
As part of the Thales design process you will interact with the following key roles wither On-shore teams or Off-shore teams:

• Designers at all levels
•   Bid team members
•   Project team members
• Testing team members
• Installation team members
• Project Planners
• Supply Chain

Key Responsibilities and Tasks for The Assigned System:

• Good understanding of the development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
•  Interfacing with the client, to gain approval of test specifications and to host acceptance testing activities (SAT).
•  Interfacing with the Consultant, to gain approval of test specifications and to host acceptance testing activities.
•  Support the development of test plans and test strategy documents.
• Support the development of test specifications, working from system requirements.
• Execute test specifications (according to test plan and project schedule).
•  Record and/or authorise results of test execution.
•  Raise/investigate/verify defects.
• Maintain quality target/standard.
• Create/support the development of Maintenance Documents.
• Create/Support the development of all designated/assigned system to you the related system’s document, ex: SAT procedures, Maintenance Documents, design specifications…etc.
• Prepares subsystem interface requirements and test requirement documents.
• Supervises staff, by defining their work, coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress and directing them on priorities.

Skills (underpinning Knowledge):

•  Able to use a range of IT tools. 
• Knowledge of the common applications based on Windows (MS Office, Outlook, etc.).
•  Working knowledge of project plans.
•  Has a working knowledge of Engineering Safety Management.
•  Fluent in English.

Technical Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree of Communications engineering
• 3-5 years of proven experience in telecom/communications/light current projects.
• Proven experience in metro and/or railways environments is a plus.
• Networks knowledge is necessary (Must), any cisco certificate is a plus wither associate or professional level.

• Light current experience for systems such as but not limited to:

  
  

  CCTV Systems

  
  

  Tetra Radio systems

  
  

  CCTV systems

  
  

  PA systems

  
  

  FD systems

  
  

  Fiber cable Systems

  
  

  IP Networks

  
  

  UPS systems Competence

  
  

  Telephone systems

  
  

  Voice recording systems

  
  

UPS systems Competence:

• Telephone systems.
• Voice recording systems

Personal & Management Qualifications:

• Innovative.
• Team worker.
• Develop people.
• Focus on customers.
• Ethics.
• Excellent Communication Skills.
• Problem Solver.
• Manage Conflicts of Ideas.
• Has the capability to Coordinate with other engineering members/ disciplines of the   project.

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