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The Walt Disney Company Broadcast Maintenance Engineer, Operations in Washington, District Of Columbia
Are you a motivated broadcast maintenance engineer with experience maintaining and troubleshooting broadcast and IT equipment? Do you enjoy working in a team environment that promotes collaboration and creativity in the workplace?
Disney Inc is hiring a full-time broadcast maintenance position to work at the ABC News Bureau in Washington, DC! This is one of the largest production operations facilities in DC, producing multiple shows daily for ABC and ESPN. This role requires working nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as situations demand.
The position will be covered by the NABET-CWA Master Agreement.
Responsibilities:
Provide ongoing support for a 24/7 television broadcast facility including the installations of new systems.
Install, configure, and maintain television broadcast systems.
Assist in building and maintaining control rooms, master control, editing systems with multiple server systems.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
At least five years of broadcast maintenance experience in a live environment
Possess a wide range of knowledge and skills in television technology and engineering
Have a strong proven understanding of studio, transmission and editing systems.
Have a strong background in broadcast television maintenance with expertise in digital video, audio and control systems.
Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve complex system problems quickly with little external technical guidance and develop corrective measures for problems
Be able to quickly identify and replace failed hardware and work with vendors to isolate and resolve technical problems quickly
Ability to handle basic hardware installation and lift up to 20lbs to heights up to 6ft
Excellent understanding of technical drawings and other documentation for all broadcast devices, services, and processes.
Experience using the systems below:
Sony MVS Switchers, NVision routers with NV9000 control systems
Grass Valley Miranda iControl
AVID NEXIS editing server with Avid FastServe and associated editing clients
Grass Valley K2 editing servers with associated editing clients
Grass Valley Kaleido-X virtual monitor walls
SSL Audio Consoles
Studio and field Robotics
Integrated Receivers Decoders and other Satellite and ASI gear
Fiber Optic gear including setting up CWDM
Education:
- Associate or bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
The pay rate for this role in Washington DC is $29.375 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.
Job ID: 10072999
Location: Washington,DC
Job Posting Company: ABC News
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