Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Maintain, align, modify and troubleshoot broadcast equipment and systems, ensuring technical facilities meet operational, production and engineering standards.
• Partner with production teams and resource departments to understand requirements, provide technical expertise, attend planning meetings and deliver effective broadcast solutions.
• Identify, diagnose and resolve technical faults, implementing alternative solutions where required to minimise disruption and studio downtime.
• Drive technical innovation through the development, modification and testing of equipment, systems and workflows to meet evolving production needs.
• Rig, configure and operate studio equipment including EVS record servers, vision monitoring systems, camera shading/colour balance controls and associated broadcast infrastructure.
• Lead or support refurbishment projects and complex engineering activities, working with BBC specialist teams, contractors and manufacturers to implement technical improvements and resolve design issues.
• Promote a safe and efficient working environment by ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements, maintaining accurate records and reports, addressing facility issues, and providing training, guidance and supervision to junior staff, trainees and work experience placements.

Essential Criteria

Your Skills and Experience

• Relevant qualifications, training, or significant practical experience in broadcast engineering within a television studio, live production or broadcast environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of broadcast technology, including cameras, routers, vision and audio mixers, sound desks, communications systems, talkback infrastructure, computer systems and networks.
• Experience working with a range of broadcast systems and software, with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and workflows.
• Ability to maintain high technical standards, including the critical assessment of television pictures, waveforms, audio quality and overall signal performance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a customer-focused approach and the ability to build effective relationships with production, operational and engineering teams.
• Proven problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, identify practical solutions, and know when to escalate, refer or delegate issues appropriately.
• A highly self-motivated and collaborative team player with a positive, flexible approach and a strong understanding of production requirements. Able to perform the essential audio and visual quality assessment requirements of the role - Please note: This role involves critical assessment of audio and visual content, including colour accuracy and sound quality, as part of studio engineering responsibilities.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.