Infrastructure Project Manager

First Point Group; City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

First Point Group in Johannesburg invites applications for an senior Infrastructure Projects Manager. This permanent role leads the nationwide infrastructure function, directing Infrastructure Leads and field technicians across Gauteng and Cape Town, while acting as the hiring manager and ensuring high standards of safety and performance.

You will apply RF engineering expertise for network planning, site design, and maintenance, coordinating with PM, NOC/RF, Warehouse and Finance, and driving

Qualifications

• 5 to 10+ years in telecoms infrastructure across deployment, maintenance, and operations.
• 3 to 5 years in leadership or management overseeing technical teams and field operations or contractors.
• Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure across multiple sites or regions.
• National N Diploma or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or Telecommunications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the national infrastructure department, including direct management of Infrastructure Leads in Gauteng and Cape Town and all field technicians reporting into them.
• Act as hiring manager for infrastructure recruits, own performance management and disciplinary processes, and foster accountability, workmanship pride, and safety.
• Apply RF engineering expertise to support network planning, sector alignment, signal optimisation, and interference mitigation; input on site design and equipment selection.
• Coordinate across Project Management, NOC/RF, Warehouse and Procurement, and Finance; manage landlord relationships, site compliance, and regular reporting to CEO.

Skills

Leadership

Telecoms infrastructure

RF planning

Site deployment

Cross-functional coordination

Education

National N Diploma or higher in Electrical Engineering/Electronics/Telecommunications

Tools

MikroTik RouterOS

Ubiquiti UISP/UNMS/UniFi

GPON fibre

Job description

Our client is a growing fixed wireless internet service provider with an active national footprint, serving towns, communities, and surrounding areas across South Africa. They operate licensed spectrum microwave and wireless broadband infrastructure, and are in an active phase of network expansion. This is a permanent, senior leadership role based in Johannesburg, with national scope covering both Gauteng and Cape Town operations.

The role

The Infrastructure Projects Manager is an operational and technical leadership position responsible for the end-to-end management of the infrastructure function. You will lead and manage Infrastructure Leads and Technicians nationally, serving as the central point of operational control for all infrastructure activities — from site deployment and quality assurance through to preventative maintenance, RF planning, and cross-departmental coordination. The role reports into the Head of Operations with a dotted line to the CEO.

This is not a desk role. You will be expected to be field-credible, technically authoritative, and operationally present — setting standards, developing your team, and driving the infrastructure function as the business scales.

What you'll be doing

Leading the national infrastructure department, including direct management of Infrastructure Leads in Gauteng and Cape Town and all field technicians reporting into them. You will act as hiring manager for all infrastructure recruits, own performance management and disciplinary processes, and create a culture of accountability, workmanship pride, and safety across the team.

On the technical side, you will apply RF engineering expertise to support network planning, sector alignment, signal optimisation, and interference mitigation. You will provide input on site design, antenna placement, tower specifications, and equipment selection, and will troubleshoot complex issues across fibre, microwave, GPON, IP networking, and wireless broadband. You will design and implement preventative maintenance schedules covering towers, antennas, cabling, and power systems including solar and battery infrastructure.

Beyond technical delivery, you will coordinate across Project Management, NOC/RF, Warehouse and Procurement, and Finance — managing landlord relationships, site compliance, tool and vehicle oversight, and regular performance reporting to the CEO and senior leadership.

What we're looking for

• 5 to 10+ years in telecoms infrastructure covering deployment, maintenance, and operations
• Minimum 3 to 5 years in a leadership or management role overseeing technical teams and field operations or contractors
• Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure across multiple sites or regions
• National N Diploma or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or Telecommunications

Technical requirements

• RF and wireless: RF planning, site surveys, propagation analysis, sector alignment, antenna tilting, azimuth configuration, signal optimisation, interference mitigation, link budget analysis, frequency planning, antenna selection, PtP and PtMP wireless link design, spectrum analysis, tower specifications, and line-of-sight path profiling.
• Networking and infrastructure: MikroTik (RouterOS, Winbox), Ubiquiti (UISP, UNMS, UniFi), microwave link planning and maintenance, fibre optics (GPON, splicing, FTTH), IP networking (routing, switching, VLANs, DHCP, DNS), solar and off-grid power systems, and tower rigging and structural compliance.
• Advantageous certifications: MTCNA, MTCRE, Ubiquiti UEWA or UBRSS, FTTH Specialist, CWNA or equivalent.

The kind of person who will thrive here

You are field-credible and technically grounded: you understand the work from the ground up and are not afraid to be on site. You think like a business operator, not just an engineer, and you bring commercial awareness to every infrastructure decision. You are decisive, resilient, and comfortable working in an environment where some processes are still being built. You hold yourself and your team to high standards of workmanship, safety, and professionalism, and you can hold composure when managing simultaneous outages, escalations, and project deadlines.