Description:
The primary role of the Pre-sales Engineer is to undertake high-level engineering tasks (such as High-Level Designs, Detail Designs, and System Architecture design) in support of major radio and video system opportunities.
The Pre-sales System Engineer will be responsible for issuing technical solutions and designs during the tender phase and advice to various Project teams during implementation.
Responsibilites:
- Provide technical advice on specialist areas of radio communications systems (P25, Tetra, DMR, HF, and LTE) and Fixed/Mobile video systems (BWC, In-vehicle system, CCTV)
- Describe system performance, features, and architecture to consultants and customers.
- Technical architect and system design responsible for new opportunities.
- System architecture design and dimensioning for Core sites, Radio/Remote sites and TX sites. Design and dimension systems to provide customer required features and performance criteria such as redundancy, grade of service (GoS) and link/path availability.
- Evaluate different Motorola technologies and determine the best fit for customer needs and budget (including the selection of third party products for use in system solutions). Work with Sales to develop overall sales strategies based on the customer’s requirements and resources.
- Formally present technical product information to customers, professional organizations, and consultant groups about Motorola products.
- Create and review system engineering deliverables (i.e. quotation, System Design Document, System Description Document, Bill of Materials, System Architecture Diagrams, Network Diagrams, Fleetmaps, Coverage Plots, Design and Capacity Calculations, and other High Level as well as Detail Design deliverables)
- Interface with product groups regarding solutions or new products. Use their understanding of systems to request new products, systems, and features from System Planning.
- Analyze radio traffic reports to ensure continued optimal use of the network facilities.
- Liasing with radio planning team to conduct Radio Coverage and Capacity studies and produce coverage maps.
- Complete RF studies including coverage analysis, frequency reuse and interference analysis.
- Support the Project team in understanding system requirements and development of solutions.
- Ensure that all aspects of the system design have been completed to a level that minimizes Motorola’s risk.
- Ensure an understanding of commercial conditions and appropriate responses to technical conditions.
- Ensure that all response recommendations made on behalf of Motorola will comply with all appropriate statutory regulations.
- Review all technical documentation.
- Produce factory & field acceptance test procedure documentation.
- Knowledge management activities to explore and acquire knowledge in order to keep up level of technical expertise.
- Report the current status of work on a regular basis.
Basic Requirements
The ideal candidate has the following skills and capabilities:
- More than 5 years of involvement with a wide range of radio communications and video systems including their design, specification and pre-sales activities.
- Technical Sales or customer relationship management experience
- Bachelors/Masters Degree in Communication, Computer, or Network Engineering is preferred.
- A positive attitude with a can-do mentality that enables you to be creative, resourceful and deliver results
- trong written and oral communication skills with the ability to present complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences in English and French (French and English are mandatory, Arabic is an add-on)
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Willingness to think out of the box and challenge the status quo
- Attention to detail and a flawless execution mindset
- Strong general knowledge of wireless communications fundamentals and voice/data architectures - both public and private (e.g. Tetra , P25, DMR, LTE) is highly desirable.
- Strong general knowledge of boarder security and safe city solutions (including Fixed and Mobile video)
- Strong general knowledge of IP networking architecture, protocols and security is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of RF coverage predictions, traffic/capacity modeling, and related toolsets is an asset.