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Junior Broadcast Engineer - An exciting new opportunity to help make radio and television at NewsUK working as part of the Broadcast Technology team.

We are Wireless: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans.

Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. And talkRADIO is redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond.

The team

You’ll be joining a supportive and collaborative team of broadcast engineers, working together to share knowledge, develop skills and help make brilliant TV and radio broadcasts. The team are responsible for the complex studio and broadcast transmission chain systems and ensure continuous, high quality, uninterrupted transmissions.

Your role

As a Junior Broadcast Engineer, reporting to the Head of Broadcast Technology and guided by the Lead Broadcast Engineer, you will be jointly responsible for the support, maintenance, fault management, and readiness of News UK broadcast systems and networks, both at our London studios and on location at outside broadcasts. You will work a shift pattern which includes early, late and weekend working, taking part in an on-call rota to respond to urgent technical issues outside standard hours.

Day to day

  • Provide customer-focussed support for broadcast technology users
  • Maintain and solve problems with hardware and software in studios and racks rooms
  • Seize every opportunity to grow and develop your skills
  • Work with outside companies and internal departments to promptly resolve faults
  • Test and fix equipment
  • Perform quality and line tests with external contributors
  • Book, configure and test satellite feeds for sporting and news events
  • Configure equipment to meet operational needs
  • Provide support for Outside Broadcasts
  • Implement new systems to support changing broadcast requirements
  • Understand transmission chains and audio processing for broadcast

About you

  • Some knowledge and experience of broadcast media technologies
  • Some experience of television or radio studio operations
  • An understanding of professional audio and video signal paths
  • A passion for delivering exceptional customer service
  • Good numerical and written skills
  • Awareness of IP-based technologies
  • Some knowledge of broadcast playout and scheduling systems
  • A positive attitude with exceptional client-facing interpersonal skills for written, oral and face-to-face communications
  • The ability to assess risk and work in a safe manner at all times

Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. This role is primarily based at our London Bridge studios, providing in-person support, but we encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.  We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we offer

  • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
  • 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year.
  • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
  • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
  • A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions.
  • Discounted gym membership for employees and immediate family.
  • Life assurance benefits of 4 x your Annual Salary.
  • A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees.
  • Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.
  • Regular in-house events and masterclasses.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.