Manager, Broadcast Engineering
Pac 12 Networks
San Francisco, CAThis was removed by the employer on 3/22/2019 8:12:00 AM PST
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At the Pac-12, we love sports and technology! Join our team as the leader of our Broadcast Engineering team. This role supports over 1000 live broadcasts per year. As Broadcast Engineering Manager, you’ll rely on your working technical knowledge, problem-solving, and people skills to provide day-to-day maintenance and support of our production control rooms, studios, and broadcast and transmission infrastructure. Your objectives are to provide excellent service to our production, operations, and engineering teams, perform broadcast support duties, and manage our broadcast engineering team.
We’re looking for a hands-on manager to work closely with the production and engineering teams to devise, develop, and support cutting edge broadcast technology solutions. Pac-12 Networks is renowned for pioneering IP-based remote production over our high-capacity network connecting almost 100 venues across all Pac-12 schools to our production studios in downtown San Francisco. Help us envision the next iteration of our broadcast and production infrastructure, in this exciting opportunity to shape the future of best-in-class TV broadcasts, TV production, streaming, and AV support at the Conference of Champions.
Responsibilities:
• Management:
• Lead our broadcast engineering team: plan and execute broadcast technology deployment and maintenance, support live television broadcasts and conference events.
• Set employee objectives, monitor and evaluate performance, and provide feedback and mentoring.
• Determine KPIs and/or OKRs, and develop reports to track metrics.
• Define and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) and best practices.
• Build positive working relationships with production, operations, and engineering teams, while exceeding client expectations.
• Analyze business needs presented by the executive leadership team, engineering team, and production team and recommend technical solutions.
• Participate in the management of broadcast engineering budgets, capital planning, expense tracking, purchasing, and vendor relationships.
• Hands-On Support:
• As a working manager, perform broadcast support duties on a regular basis including first line support for Production, Post-Production, Transmission, and Media Management teams.
• Lead installation, configuration, troubleshooting, technical support and repair of broadcast technologies, television production, and IT equipment.
• Manage provisioning of physical equipment, including case assembly, racking, cabling, electrical, etc.
• Repair of Field production equipment, as necessary.
• Act as a subject matter expert and the first point of escalation for production, post-production, and transmission teams.
• Participate in the department's efforts to investigate service anomalies or hardware malfunctions.
• Coordinate maintenance efforts with Pac-12's master control partner.
• 24x7 availability to respond to emergency facility needs.
• Other duties as assigned by department management
• Some travel may be required.
Requirements:
• Minimum of five years experience in a supervisory capacity within an engineering or broadcast maintenance organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and build broadcast engineering teams.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in IP technology or principles and broadcast technologies design and support, specifically for At-Home (REMI) production models.
• Experience with the following technologies:
• Hardware and Cloud-based CODECs (Nevion, Evertz, Haivision, AWS/Elemental, etc) using J2K, H.264, HEVC, HLS, RTMP, RTP-FEC, SRT, RIST, ZIXI
• Management and troubleshooting production control room and studio infrastructure: video routing, switchers, audio consoles, intercom, graphics, studio automation, editing stations (Adobe Premier), MAM, etc
• Setup and configuration of file based workflow systems
• Basic networking skills: router & switch config, traceroute, ping, nmap, etc.
• Basic Linux and Windows server administration
• Exposure to key AWS services (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, etc)
• AutoCAD
• Google apps (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.)
• Project management tools such as Jira
• Successful budgeting, capital planning, expenditure tracking, procurement management, and analysis.
• Good relationship management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to lift and move Audio/Visual equipment weighing up to 50 pounds for various broadcast and events needs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to be on-call 24-hours to provide support for escalated issues.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, broadcast, or related field preferred.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about Pac-12 Sports.