Broadcast Technician

Digital Media Support Engineer

47 West 66th St, New York, NY 10023, United States

18 Months Contract

$45 – 55 /hr. W2

The Digital Media Support Engineer is responsible for the support and development of the Editing, Streaming, Graphics and Production facilities in New York. This encompasses the evaluation and build of new technology solutions, assist with, or coordinate project tasks and provide technical support for the content creation and distribution of ABCNews daily broadcasts, digital live stream, and delivery to streaming partners and VOD.

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain and support all postproduction facilities for ABCNews
• Build, maintain and support NVision router control system and baseband workflows
• Build, maintain and support VOD, streaming, radio, and broadcast workflows
• Develop and maintain technical solutions to create efficiencies in content acquisition and distribution
• Contribute to or lead system sustainment and upgrade projects
• Work closely with our operation teams to develop workflow solutions for their business needs
• Interface with vendors in troubleshooting efforts
• Create “how to” documentation for users and peers
• Create technical drawings

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience working in a broadcast environment
• Strong computer/networking knowledge
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
• Self-starter who works well with minimal supervision
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technology
• Flexible work hours, we are a 24/7 facility with evening, weekends, and holidays work hours
• Works well under pressure
• Team player
• Demonstrated ability to plan, develop, install, and manage a variety of systems specific to editing and graphics creation
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills –combine critical thinking, logic, analytic reasoning, research, and experience
• Demonstrated ability building and maintaining virtual machines and physical servers

Preferred Qualifications:

• AVID Media Composer Experience is a huge plus, but we also use Adobe (Premier, Aftereffects, etc). Even if they have Media Composer, the environment is very customized and will have a training curve for anyone.
• More important than software experience is Broadcast experience, editing experience, and a trainable/moldable mindset with the ability to think critically.

Schedule: They would start Mon-Fri, 8-4p for the first few months for training, then will likely be moved to overnight and weekends - depending on level of performance. Weekends are 12-hour shifts (day 12p-12a and overnight 12a-12p). We have a two-person weekly rotation for each shift, so the candidate would be required to work a weekend shift (day or overnight) every other week.

Benefits Info:

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.