PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER (M5) (RE-ADVERTISED)
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following posts. Please submit your application, Curriculum Vitae, Certificates and Transcripts (3 copies each set) giving full details of applicants’ education, qualifications, work experience, present salary and naming three referees, plus their postal addresses. Applicants should make sure that at least two referees have forwarded references concerning their application.
Applications should be delivered to the Employment Division, Room 406, Top Floor, Main Building, Makerere University, and addressed to:
The Director
Human Resources
P.O.Box 7062
Kampala.
Closing Date:- 9th July, 2010
DIRECTORATE FOR ICT SUPPORT (DICTS)
PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER (M5) (RE-ADVERTISED)
Responsible to: The Deputy Director, DICTS
Salary scale: Makerere University M.5
Qualifications: (i) A Masters degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or Telecommunication Engineering or Computer Engineering or its equivalent
(ii) 3 years experience 2 of which must be in network design, installation and operation of local area networks.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Planning and Maintenance Manager will be responsible for planning for new technology acquisition, infrastructure expansion, and ensuring proper maintenance management of the ICT infrastructure. This will involve planned and corrective maintenance to ensure minimum system outage or performance degradation at an acceptable cost. (S)he will carry out the following specific tasks:
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following posts. Please submit your application, Curriculum Vitae, Certificates and Transcripts (3 copies each set) giving full details of applicants’ education, qualifications, work experience, present salary and naming three referees, plus their postal addresses. Applicants should make sure that at least two referees have forwarded references concerning their application.
Applications should be delivered to the Employment Division, Room 406, Top Floor, Main Building, Makerere University, and addressed to:
The Director
Human Resources
P.O.Box 7062
Kampala.
Closing Date:- 9th July, 2010
DIRECTORATE FOR ICT SUPPORT (DICTS)
PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER (M5) (RE-ADVERTISED)
Responsible to: The Deputy Director, DICTS
Salary scale: Makerere University M.5
Qualifications: (i) A Masters degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or Telecommunication Engineering or Computer Engineering or its equivalent
(ii) 3 years experience 2 of which must be in network design, installation and operation of local area networks.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Planning and Maintenance Manager will be responsible for planning for new technology acquisition, infrastructure expansion, and ensuring proper maintenance management of the ICT infrastructure. This will involve planned and corrective maintenance to ensure minimum system outage or performance degradation at an acceptable cost. (S)he will carry out the following specific tasks:
- Plan for infrastructure expansion and improvement, including migration to new technologies
- Carryout asset management for ICT infrastructure
- Document the entire network infrastructure and ensure updating of the configuration database
- Support academic and administrative units in specifying, implementing and maintaining their internal ICT infrastructure
- Implement planned and corrective maintenance
- Plan and administer disaster recovery measures for ICT infrastructure
- Plan and implement business continuity efforts for the various university ICT infrastructure
- Carryout a trends watch function in the ICT Infrastructure field and plan for innovations
- Handling any other duties which may from time to time be assigned by the Deputy Director, DICTS.
- Experience in network design and installation
- Experience in the maintenance and repair of electronic equipment, computers, communication equipment, and radio frequency equipment.
- Experience with computer aided trouble shooting, remote diagnostics, and automatic test equipment.
- Familiarity with international standards and recommendations applicable to communication networks
- Ability to manage and supervise teams with experience in prioritising tasks
- Good inter-personal skills
- Output-oriented work habits
