Radio Frequency Engineer / Planner

Radio Coverage Specialist working with a large telecoms company for an initial 6-month contract, paying up to £500 per day (inside IR35). This will be a Hybrid split: 3 days on site at the London office.

Main Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert, working with other teams across the business and with other companies, and providing technical support and guidance to other team members.


• Develop and continually improve processes and methodologies used within the team.


• Clearly present the results of analysis to support senior management in strategic decision making.


• Providing coverage impact assessment analysis using ATOLL planning tools.


• Supporting Internal customer queries in regards of coverage assessment for both strategic programs, business opportunities or specific single queries.


• Supporting the delivery of different programs such as Air-To-Ground.


• Reporting on the coverage improvements within the Network for all technologies (2G, 4G, 5G).


• Providing the client with our planning Data on a regular basis.


• Supporting the business with new coverage opportunity evaluation.


• Actual and forecasted Coverage Reporting across multiple technologies.


• Governance around Coverage guideline and Radio emission compliance.

Required Skills

• Understanding of the complex interaction between coverage and capacity in the mobile radio access network.


• Significant knowledge and understanding of coverage management techniques and best practice.


• Experience of analysis and clearly presenting findings in writing and in person.


• Developing new processes and methodologies and implementing them within the area of responsibility.


• Understanding of issues and blockers of performing the job and providing improvement plans/solutions.


• Automation mindset to reduce time to deliver.

Required Experience

• More than 5 years' experience in the radio planning space.


• Experience in planning small cells.


• Strong experience of using tools for radio planning analysis such as ATOLL with particular focus on Automatic Cell Planning module.


• Experience in using visualisation tools such as QGIS or ARCGIS for more complex data elaboration.


• Good experience of mobile Radio antenna configurations.


• Experience with coding such as Python language or similar and GIS data analysis skills.


• Experience in PCI/RSI planning.


• Experience with Radio network compliance (ICNIRP, GA drawings).


• Experience with Coverage modelling for all technologies 2G/3G/4G/5G.

Experience with propagation model ITU-528 -3.