Optics Engineer

• A highly qualified professional with demonstrated expertise within discipline supported by feedback from industry.
• Effective presentation, negotiation and discussion skills to both technical and non-technical personnel to facilitate understanding and decision making.
• Broad expertise and design knowledge within other disciplines to effectively generate designs that consider benefits and overall impact to organisation and customers.
• Works with peers in cross-technology projects. Participates as a technology expert during the tender process to develop engineering effort estimates and scope of works

Knowledge / Skills / Experience

Technical:

• Understanding and Industrial Experience (5 yrs minimum) with the following technologies:
• Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
• Data Technologies (Layer 2 and Layer 3)
• Network Management System
• General knowledge of Data Networking (data transport and routing protocols including Ethernet, MPLS, TCP/IP, OSPF, OSI CLNS, IS-IS)
• General Computer Skills (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
• A degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science.
• Well developed Interpersonal skills.
• Well developed presentation and customer facing skills.
• Demonstrable written communication skills including succinct report writing.
• Well developed organisational skills and the ability to work with minimum supervision.

Business Awareness:

• Awareness of all operations and structures within NOKIA.
• Demonstrates clear understanding of how the company works.
• Understands the impact of decisions on project outcomes, strategies, operations and budget.

Communications:

• Able to work effectively with others and to communicate to audiences both verbally and through written materials.
• Work with customers and internal stakeholders under pressure and critical fault scenarios
• Can co-ordinate large meetings /conferences and represent NOKIA in formal presentations.

Initiative & Decision Making:

• Possesses skill of making the right decisions and using initiative to anticipate problems.
• Makes technical or business decisions based on an understanding of risks.

Leadership:

• Able to provide leadership, direction coaching and counselling to other engineers within the team.
• Ability to manage others and guide the work of a team and/or technology area.
• Ability to demonstrate strong people and perception management skills.

Team Work:

• Able to work effectively and efficiently in a team environment.
• Willing to share information, knowledge and experience with others.
• Respects other members within the team.

Organisational:

• Support to develop plans for medium to long term objectives of NOKIA NZ.
• Identifies future opportunities and potential problems and accommodates these into plans.

Note:

• Position is based in Wellington and may require some NZ and international travel.
• Position requires availability for after-hours work to support projects and support work and international video and phone conferences.