Senior Telecom Engineer

Company Description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.
We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.
To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all

Job Description

1. Telecom and ICT Technical Leadership

• Lead telecommunications and ICT design activities for assigned projects.
• Coordinate and supervise telecom engineers, ELV engineers and designers.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to project teams.
• Plan discipline activities and monitor design progress.
• Coordinate discipline workload and resource requirements with management.
• Review technical outputs prepared by engineers and designers.
• Mentor junior engineers and support development of technical competencies.
• Ensure consistent engineering standards are applied across telecom projects.

2. Telecom and ICT Systems Design

Lead design activities for systems including, as applicable:

Telecommunications Infrastructure

• Telecommunications Outside Plant – OSP.
• Telecommunications Inside Plant – ISP.
• Fibre-optic backbone networks.
• Copper telecommunications networks.
• Telecom duct-bank systems.
• Telecom manholes and handholes.
• Building telecom entrance facilities.
• Telecom equipment rooms.
• Main Distribution Frames – MDF.
• Intermediate Distribution Frames – IDF.
• Telecommunications risers.
• Campus and site-wide telecom networks.
• Service-provider interfaces.

Structured Cabling and Data Systems

• Structured cabling systems.
• Fibre-optic cabling.
• Copper data cabling.
• Voice systems.
• Telephone systems.
• Local Area Networks – LAN.
• Wide Area Network interfaces – WAN.
• Data networks.
• Wireless LAN / Wi-Fi infrastructure.
• Network cabinets and racks.
• Data-centre and server-room passive infrastructure where applicable.

ICT Systems

• ICT backbone systems.
• Network architecture.
• Active network infrastructure requirements.
• IP-based communication systems.
• Network redundancy requirements.
• Network availability strategies.
• ICT equipment-room requirements.
• Network-management-system interfaces.

Security and Surveillance Systems

Where included in project scope:

• CCTV systems.
• IP surveillance systems.
• Access Control Systems – ACS.
• Intrusion-detection systems.
• Intercom systems.
• Video intercom.
• Security communication networks.
• Security control-room systems.

Other Low-Current / ELV Systems

Depending on project requirements:

• Public Address systems.
• Voice Alarm interfaces.
• IPTV systems.
• Master Clock systems.
• Audio-visual systems.
• Digital signage systems.
• Parking-management interfaces.
• Building Management System communication interfaces.
• Smart-building-system interfaces.
• IoT communication infrastructure.
• Emergency communication systems.
• Other specialist low-current systems defined under project scope.

Fire alarm and other life-safety systems shall be coordinated with the responsible Fire & Life Safety/Electrical discipline where these systems fall outside the direct telecom scope.

3. Telecom Infrastructure Design

Lead the development of infrastructure telecom networks including:

• Telecom network master planning.
• External fibre-optic networks.
• Duct-bank routing.
• Telecom corridor planning.
• Manhole spacing and sizing.
• Cable-routing strategy.
• Network topology.
• Redundancy strategy.
• Service-provider connection points.
• Building-entry points.
• Future network expansion provisions.
• Utility corridor coordination.

Designs shall consider maintainability, network resilience, future expansion and compatibility with Saudi telecom service-provider requirements.

4. Design Documentation

Lead preparation and review of:

• Telecom Design Basis Reports.
• ICT design criteria.
• Telecom system philosophies.
• Network architecture diagrams.
• Telecom schematic diagrams.
• ICT system block diagrams.
• Fibre network diagrams.
• Structured-cabling diagrams.
• Telecom room layouts.
• Equipment-room layouts.
• Telecom rack layouts.
• CCTV layouts.
• Access-control layouts.
• Data outlet layouts.
• Telecom infrastructure layouts.
• Duct-bank drawings.
• Manhole details.
• Cable schedules.
• Equipment schedules.
• System specifications.
• Bills of Quantities.
• Tender documentation.
• Authority submission documents.
• Technical reports.

5. Engineering Calculations and Studies

Ensure appropriate development and review of technical assessments including:

• Fibre-loss budgets.
• Copper-cable length assessments.
• Network bandwidth assessments.
• Data-capacity assessments.
• Rack-capacity calculations.
• Equipment power requirements.
• UPS requirements for ICT equipment.
• Heat-load information for telecom rooms.
• CCTV coverage studies.
• Camera field-of-view assessments.
• Network-availability assessments.
• Wi-Fi coverage studies where required.
• Storage calculations for CCTV systems.
• Telecom duct-capacity calculations.

6. Saudi Regulatory Compliance

Ensure telecom and ICT designs comply with applicable Saudi requirements including:

• Communications, Space & Technology Commission – CST regulations.
• Saudi Building Code requirements applicable to telecommunications infrastructure.
• Telecommunications service-provider requirements.
• STC requirements where applicable.
• Mobily requirements where applicable.
• Zain requirements where applicable.
• Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu standards where applicable.
• Client and project-specific ICT and security standards.
• Relevant Civil Defense requirements for systems associated with life safety.

International standards shall be used where applicable, including:

• TIA
• BICSI
• ISO/IEC
• IEEE
• IEC
• ITU-T
• NFPA where applicable
• Relevant BS/EN standards.

7. Service Provider and Authority Coordination

• Coordinate telecom requirements with CST requirements and relevant service providers.
• Identify required telecom-provider connection points.
• Establish requirements for OSP infrastructure.
• Coordinate service-provider network-entry requirements.
• Support technical submissions to telecom providers and authorities.
• Respond to authority and service-provider comments.
• Attend technical coordination meetings.
• Monitor telecom-related approvals and close outstanding technical comments.
• Ensure adequate infrastructure is provided for multiple service providers where required.

8. Multidisciplinary Coordination

Coordinate telecommunications and ELV systems with all disciplines (Architecture, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Infrastructure utilities, Fire & Life Safety, Security, BMS, Smart-city systems, AV specialists, Landscape, Interior Design, Utility Engineering)

Special attention shall be given to:

• Telecom-room locations and sizes.
• MDF and IDF locations.
• Equipment-room cooling.
• Power and UPS requirements.
• Cable containment.
• Equipment, access and maintenance.
• Riser requirements.
• External utility corridors.
• Separation from electrical power systems.
• Building penetrations.
• Security and operational requirements.

9. BIM and Digital Engineering

• Coordinate telecom models with the multidisciplinary BIM environment.
• Ensure telecom equipment and containment are properly incorporated into BIM models.
• Participate in clash-detection workshops.
• Resolve spatial coordination issues.
• Coordinate telecom rooms, shafts, risers and containment routes.
• Ensure consistency between BIM models, drawings, schedules and specifications.

10. Technical Review and Quality Assurance

• Perform technical checks and discipline reviews.
• Review calculations, layouts, schematics and specifications.
• Ensure designs follow approved project standards.
• Participate in interdisciplinary design reviews.
• Manage resolution of Client and checking comments.
• Maintain compliance with Assystem's Quality Management System.
• Identify and record lessons learned.
• Promote standardization and continuous technical improvement.

11. Client Interface

• Participate in Client technical meetings and workshops.
• Present telecom and ICT design concepts.
• Explain proposed network architecture and system strategies.
• Respond to Client comments.
• Provide technical recommendations.
• Support assessment of alternative solutions.
• Assist Project Managers in resolving telecom-related technical and stakeholder matters.

12. Tender and Construction Support

Where included within project scope:

• Respond to tender queries.
• Assist with technical bid evaluation.
• Review proposed telecom equipment.
• Review contractor technical submissions.
• Review shop drawings.
• Review material submissions.
• Respond to RFIs.
• Assess proposed substitutions.
• Review value-engineering proposals.
• Support testing and commissioning activities.
• Participating in system demonstrations and acceptance activities where required.

13. Design Optimization and Innovation

• Evaluate alternative technologies and design solutions.
• Promote scalable and future-ready telecom infrastructure.
• Incorporate redundancy and resilience based on project criticality.
• Consider lifecycle cost, maintainability and future expansion.
• Promote IP convergence where appropriate.
• Support smart-building, smart-city and digital-infrastructure strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve design efficiency through digital engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Communications Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 8–10 years of relevant telecom/ICT engineering experience.
• Demonstrable experience designing telecom and low-current systems for buildings and infrastructure projects.
• Experience leading or coordinating telecom engineers and designers.
• Good experience working in multidisciplinary design environments.
• Saudi Arabian project experience is strongly preferred.

Professional Registration

• Valid or eligible professional registration with the Saudi Council of Engineers.
• Relevant international professional accreditation is advantageous.

Preferred additional certifications may include:

• BICSI RCDD.
• CCNA / CCNP.
• Vendor-certified networking qualifications.
• Relevant security-system certifications.
• Relevant ICT/data-centre certifications.

These specialist certifications are advantageous but should not substitute for strong design-engineering experience

Additional Information

Software and Digital Skills

Working knowledge of relevant tools such as:

• AutoCAD
• Revit
• Navisworks
• Microsoft Visio
• BIM collaboration platforms
• Network planning/design tools
• Wi-Fi survey/design software where applicable
• CCTV design tools where applicable
• Microsoft Office

Required Competencies

The candidate shall demonstrate:

• Strong telecommunications engineering knowledge.
• Strong ICT and ELV design capability.
• Knowledge of both building and infrastructure telecom systems.
• Team leadership.
• Technical problem solving.
• Design coordination.
• Technical checking and review.
• Client-facing communication.
• Service-provider coordination.
• Authority coordination.
• Planning and organization.
• Quality awareness.
• Risk awareness.
• Ability to manage several design packages simultaneously.

Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.