Senior RF Engineer- Job Stage5- ERCSJP00074595

Senior RF Engineer
Rate Range: 65-68$/hr
We are seeking an experienced Senior RF Engineer to support the planning, design, compliance, quality review, and delivery of Radio Access Network solutions. Experience with Canadian wireless-network deployments and regulatory requirements is preferred.
The role supports new-site builds, radio-network upgrades, relocations, capacity programs, COWs, and other wireless-network initiatives. The successful candidate will contribute across the RF engineering lifecycle, from capacity analysis and RF qualification through Final Cell Design, Safety Code 6 compliance, implementation support, acceptance, and closeout.
Candidates may specialize in RF Planning, RF Design, or SC6 and RF Compliance . Candidates with experience across multiple areas may be considered for senior or technical-lead responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities

- Perform RF capacity, traffic, coverage and performance analysis.

- Identify coverage and capacity issues and recommend radio upgrades, carrier additions, spectrum additions, sector changes, or new-site solutions.

- Prepare RF Qualifications, coverage objectives, search maps, candidate assessments, coverage plots, and Proposed Antenna Layouts.

- Create and revise RF planning specifications for new builds, upgrades, relocations, temporary sites, and spectrum programs.

- Prepare RF engineering inputs for Land Acquisition Orders, Release for Engineering, and Full Build Specifications.

- Create, review, validate, and revise Final Cell Designs , including antenna, radio, baseband, sector, azimuth, height, tilt, MIMO, and connectivity information.

- Prepare and review CivilSub, RFWO, RF coupling diagrams, civil drawings, colocation forms, and RF inputs to installation and provisioning work orders .

- Perform or review Safety Code 6 studies , exposure calculations, site models, mitigation requirements, compliance reports, and professional engineering stamping packages.

- Support related compliance activities, including PIM assessments, airport runway pre-operation reports, EMCAB attestations, and antenna installation audits.

- Create and validate RF and technical Bills of Materials, ensuring consistency with planning specifications, FCDs, SC6 reports, and approved hardware configurations.

- Review antenna-placement, spacing, height, azimuth, radio, power, and configuration changes.

- Maintain accurate engineering information in ADM, Remedy, Jira, SharePoint, NetCracker, and other customer systems.

- Prepare RF closeout packages, as-built documentation, database updates, and final acceptance evidence.

- Review deliverables produced by internal teams and engineering partners and resolve customer comments, defects, and design inconsistencies.

- Coordinate with Planning, Real Estate, Site Acquisition, Civil, Equipment Engineering, Transport, Implementation, Field Operations, customers, and subcontractors.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Wireless Communications, or a related discipline.

- Five or more years of experience in RF planning, RAN design, wireless engineering, or a related field with Canadian cellular operators

- Knowledge of LTE and 5G NR radio-network planning and design.

- Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:

RF Qualification and coverage analysis

- RF planning specifications

- Final Cell Design

- CivilSub or RF work-order design

- Safety Code 6 or RF exposure compliance

- Strong understanding of antennas, radios, basebands, MIMO, RF cabling, sector configurations, azimuths, heights, tilts, power, and radio-to-antenna connectivity.

- Ability to interpret site surveys, civil drawings, construction drawings, structure information, and site photographs.

- Strong technical writing, documentation, problem-solving, and quality-review skills.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with customers, internal teams, and delivery partners.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Canadian wireless-network deployments and regulatory requirements.

- Experience with Ericsson radio, antenna, and baseband products.

- Familiarity with tools such as Planet, MapInfo, Google Earth, EMF Visual, Visio, ADM, Remedy, Jira, SharePoint

- Experience with rooftop, macro, tower, monopole, colocation, small-cell, in-building, or temporary-site designs.

- Experience coordinating professional engineering review and stamping.

- Experience reviewing offshore, subcontractor, or third-party engineering deliverables