Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering Manager

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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A typical Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $90,078

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $105,747

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees engineering and technical design of Radio Frequency (RF) engineering projects, such as deployment and maintenance of wireless networks. Manages communication and coordination among different types of engineers working on a project. Supervises project schedule, budget, and communications with stakeholders.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Verbal / Oral Communication: Working experience of Verbal / Oral Communication, which is the spoken conveyance of a message or presentation.
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting or dpanneuring is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering: Radio-frequency engineering is a subset of electrical engineering that deals with devices that are designed to operate in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• Network Engineering: Network engineering includes planning, implementing and supporting the computer networks that support in-house voice, data, video and wireless network services.
• Staff Management: Working experience with the management of subordinates in an organization.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM): GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe Spcial Mobile) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices and mobile telephones, first deployed in Finland in December 1991.
• Network Testing: Working experience of Network Testing, which is a set of methods or processes to verify that a network built from tested components works correctly in concert to provide required services.
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA): Working experience of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communication channel. This allows several users to share a band of frequencies (see bandwidth). To permit this without undue interference between the users, CDMA employs spread spectrum technology and a special coding scheme (where each transmitter is assigned a code).
• Circuit Design: The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from complex electronic systems all the way down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Engineering Activities: Working experience of Engineering Activities, which includes all activities or functions of an engineer, invloving the application of science and mathematics to the design, manufacture or maintenance of complex products.
• Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM): GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe Spcial Mobile) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices and mobile telephones, first deployed in Finland in December 1991.
• Digital Communications: Working experience of Digital Communications. Data transmission also data communication or digital communications is the transfer of data (a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal) over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibers, wireless communication channels, storage media and computer buses. The data are represented as an electromagnetic signal, such as an electrical voltage, radiowave, microwave, or infrared signal.
• Level Antennas: Working experience of Level Antennas, which involves a field strength sensor being put in front or on top of the equipment under test and the power towards the antenna is changed until the required level is achieved.
• Network Testing: Working experience of Network Testing, which is a set of methods or processes to verify that a network built from tested components works correctly in concert to provide required services.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Rf Engineering Manager
• Field Engineering Operations Manager
• Station Chief Engineer
• Rf Engineering Section Manager - Special Test Equipment
• Payload Chief Engineer

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