OUC SME - RF Engineer / IBW Consultant - Senior

Position: OUC SME - RF Engineer / IBW Consultant - Senior

Location : 310 McMillan drive nw Washington DC

Onsite Interview

The Contractor shall provide a RF Engineer / In-Building Wireless Consultant with at least five years of experience working in operational public safety communications systems and commercial 4G wireless systems. 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 the design, testing, and implementation of Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) that support FirstNet and P25 public safety radio communications.

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 testing and acceptance of DAS systems, FCC licensing support, and radio system coverage design to include antennas, link budget, testing, and working with equipment vendors to implement feature upgrades. 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 MPD radio update and tracking efforts
- Support various capital project tasks associated with radio system infrastructure, subscriber deployment, DAS systems performance monitoring and interference resolution, and the testing and acceptance of OUC projects associated with DAS and radio systems infrastructure
- 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
- Review existing guidelines for IBW. Develop requirements for IBW systems implementation and support
- Perform field surveys of new and existing BDA installations
- Troubleshoot IBW network interference issues
- Investigate IBW network coverage issues
- Support OUC radio operations

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CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsibilities:
1. Provides assessments of technical and operational practices associated with upgrades and system changes based on leading industry standards specific to the requested technology.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Analyzes information and statistical data to prepare reports and studies for use by professionals.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements :
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.

Regards,

Manoj

Derex Technologies INC

Contact : 973-834-5005 Ext 206

Additional Information

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