Job Title:SME RF Engineer Senior (Onsite) Location: Washington DC Duration:12 Months
Job Description: 11-15 years of experience. Provides assessments of technical and operational practices based on leading industry standards specific to the requested technology.
The Contractor shall provide a RF Engineer with at least five years of experience working at a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The RF Engineering Consultant will be responsible for working with LMR radio system software and programs. In addition the RF Engineering Consultant will also be responsible for designing / testing radio code plugs validating radio and system performance and evaluating new communication devices.
The RF Engineering Consultant will perform technical work in the field of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and wireless communications system engineering design and implementation. The consultant will be responsible for program review compliance with licensing regulations requirements gathering design review change management and final acceptance of systems. Duties will include RoIP system engineering and radio code plug design / programming. Furthermore the consultant will conduct short and long-term planning to meet communications requirements. The consultant will also be responsible for performing hardware / software analysis to provide comparative data of performance characteristics and suitability within the existing systems environment.
Day to Day Tasks:
Support Motorola subscriber radio update and tracking efforts
Develop agency codeplugs
Support / complete agency programming requests
Manage / coordinate encryption and OTAR upgrades
Develop radio training material for internal and external users
Develop technical guidelines for radio use
Develop In-Building approval criteria for In-Building Wireless (IBW)
Review IBW proposals for compliance
Perform field surveys of new and existing BDA installations
Troubleshoot IBW network interference issues
Investigate IBW network coverage issues
Support client radio operations
Responsibilities:
Provides assessments of technical and operational practices based on leading industry standards specific to the requested technology.
Plans organizes and conducts research in a variety of areas such as new or existing products science social science law or business in support of an IT initiative.
Searches sources such as reference works literature documents newspapers statistical records and other sources of information. May use Internet Intranet magazines periodicals journals and other media to perform research.
Analyzes information and statistical data to prepare reports and studies for use by professionals
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
Masters degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience
Skills:
Skills
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
SME in complex enterprise level projects
11
Years
Masters degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
Experience working in a PSAP
5
Years
Interoperable radio experience
3
Years
Land Mobile Radio experience
3
Years
Radio network coverage and interference analysis experience
3
Years
RF engineering tools including Wizard and drive test tools
3
Years
Experience in developing fleetmaps code plugs and programming radios for public safety
3
Years
Experience managing Motorola User Configuration Manager
3
Years
Experience in troubleshooting WS systems including but not limited to cell microwave LMR UHF etc.
3
Years
Experience with public safety infrastructure
3
Years
Experience with P25 radio network
3
Years
Experience and knowledge of public safety communications and interoperability
3
Years
Experience and knowledge with LTE and WIMax Standard practices
3
Years
Experience and knowledge of PSAP operations
3
Years
Experience and knowledge of wireless communications - combination of theory and practice
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