BCom is now recruting

BCom Offshore SAL, is in the process of recruiting an additional Field engineer based in Beirut to frequently travel on satellite earth station installation, support and maintenance short missions in Africa, and the Middle East and less frequently in Europe, Asia, and South America.

Job Description:

Position:
“Satellite and Networking Field Engineer” hereafter referred to as “Field Engineer”. The Candidate will be subject to Lebanese labor law rights and obligations, and will be eligible for a monthly basic salary, a generous daily compensation and expenses coverage scheme during missions spent abroad, and a comprehensive private accident and travel insurance. Candidate will be reporting to the Field Operations Director

Conditions of Application:
The position is open only to Male holders of Lebanese nationality, Single and in the 23-35 age group. They should be holders of a Telecom Engineering degree from an international school or precisely from the following Lebanese universities: USJ, AUB, LAU, LU or NDU. Good oral French and very good oral and written English are a must. It is preferable to have some experience directly related to radio frequency, and networking.

 Functions and Environment of the position:
The Field Engineer is responsible for performing site surveys, site preparation supervision and follow up, site installation, commissioning and support related to VSAT and medium-size satellite earth stations in different parts of the world. He is to be based in Beirut Lebanon and would travel to the different installation areas on typically 1-2 weeks mission durations.

 Technical Knowledge.
Although the Field Engineer will undergo periodic in-house, on-site training, and training sessions with international telecommunications equipment manufacturers abroad, he should have a strong knowledge of telecommunications principles and applications specially:

• satellite communications principles
• digital communications encoding, modulation, error detection and correction, and wireless transmission techniques
• directional antenna theory
• signal amplification, and noise reduction
• theory and operation of frequency spectrum analyzers

The above enables him to have good fault detection, troubleshooting and repair skills.The Field engineer should have a very good knowledge of networking, in particular IP routing, and frame relay. He needs to have basic knowledge in electrical engineering notably electrification, grounding and earthing techniques, lightning and surge protection, and basic knowledge of civil engineering notably concrete foundation preparation, structure reinforcement, and mechanics of metal structures etc.

 Organization. Reliability and Leadership.
The Field Engineer should exhibit a high level of organization and coordination skills, be reliable and display the necessary leadership skills to motivate and provide direction for helping team during his remote site earth station building.

 Administrative and communication skills.
The Field Engineer should possess the administrative skills needed in matters such as travel planning (international flights, local transport and hotels) He should have the ability to organize, prioritize, and schedule work assignments. A basic knowledge of finance and bookkeeping is required as he will be in charge of keeping track of his missions’ expenses and financing.
The Field Engineer should have the ability to communicate effectively, both orally (French and English) and in writing (English) enabling him to write clear and concise technical and descriptive documents. He should also have good documentation skills.
The Field Engineer is the representative of BCom in its dealings with customer technical staff, their organizations and representatives. He should have strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of customer base. Directly interfacing on-site with customer representatives requires particular skills and tact in dealing with them.

Location of work and working conditions:
Work is normally performed either in the office in mission planning and follow up stages, or in remote sites in any country with poor or no telecom infrastructure during the on-site intervention stages.

Given the nature of the satellite business and customer profile, flexibility with respect to working hours and days is an essential characteristic required of the Field Engineer. The engineer will sometimes need to observe remote sites working hours and days schedule. This does not deprive him of the right of fair compensation for the non-standard work schedule.

 If you believe that you can be a good asset to BCom OS, please send your CV to : recruit@bcomsat.com with a short cover letter elaborating how you believe you fit with the above and what value you could bring to BCom OS