Profession telecommunications engineer

Telecommunications engineers conduct research and advise on, design, and direct the construction functioning, maintenance and repair of telecommunication systems and equipment. They study and advise on technological aspects of telecommunication engineering materials, products or processes.

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Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic

Related professions telecommunication

• Mobile phone equipment installer or repairer
• Telecommunication lines or cables installer or repairer
• Telecommunications engineering technician

Knowledge

• ICT network routing

  The processes and techniques for choosing the best paths within an ICT network through which a packet can travel.

• Quality assurance methodologies

  Quality assurance principles, standard requirements, and the set of processes and activities used for measuring, controlling and ensuring the quality of products and processes.

• Electronics principles

  The study of electric energy, more specifically electron, control and its prominent principles regarding integrated circuits and electrical systems.

• Systems development life-cycle

  The sequence of steps, such as planning, creating, testing and deploying and the models for the development and life-cycle management of a system.

• ICT system user requirements

  The process intended to match user and organisation's needs with system components and services, by taking into consideration the available technologies and the techniques required to elicit and specify requirements, interrogating users to establish symptoms of problem and analysing symptoms.

• Signal processing

  The algorithms, applications and implementations that deal with the processing and transferring of information through analog or digital frequencies.

• Telecommunication industry

  The major players on the telecommunications market such as organisations manufacturing and distributing telephone terminal equipment, mobile devices, accessibility, and network security.

• ICT communications protocols

  The system of rules which allow the exchange of information between computers or other devices via computer networks.

• ICT network security risks

  The security risk factors, such as hardware and software components, devices, interfaces and policies in ICT networks, risk assessment techniques that can be applied to assess the severity and the consequences of security threats and contingency plans for each security risk factor.

• Microwave principles

  The technologies used in transmission of information or energy via electromagnetic waves between 1000 and 100,000 MHz.

• Procurement of ICT network equipment

  The products available from network equipment providers and methods for selecting and procuring the equipment.

Skills

• Analyse network bandwidth requirements

  Study the requirements on the transmission capacity of an ICT network or other telecommunication system.

• Define technical requirements

  Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.

• Interact with users to gather requirements

  Communicate with users to identify their requirements and collect them. Define all relevant user requirements and document them in an understandable and logical way for further analysis and specification.

• Support ICT system users

  Communicate with end users, instruct them on how to progress with tasks, use ICT support tools and methods to solve problems and identify possible side effects and provide solutions.

• Use session border controller

  Manage calls during a given VoIP session and ensure security and quality of service by operating a session border controller (SBC).

• Design computer network

  Develop and plan ICT networks, such as wide area network and local area network, that connect computers using cable or wireless connections and allow them to exchange data and assess their capacity requirements.

• Adjust ICT system capacity

  Change the scope of an ICT system by adding or reallocating additional ICT system components, such as network components, servers or storage to meet capacity or volume demands.

• Design process

  Identify the workflow and resource requirements for a particular process, using a variety of tools such as process simulation software, flowcharting and scale models.

• Estimate costs of installing telecommunication devices

  Estimate the total installation costs of telecommunication devices such as modems, routers, analogue switches, optical fibre, and landline phones.

• Provide ICT system training

  Plan and conduct training of staff on system and network issues. Utilise training material, evaluate and report on the learning progress of trainees.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB