Job Description

Join a leading audiovisual integrator and broadcast production company in Eden Prairie, MN, as a Broadcast Field Engineer. You will be responsible for adjusting, testing, configuring, and commissioning Broadcast & IT systems, ensuring projects are completed with high quality. You need to understand design and demonstrate installation and commissioning techniques. You should be able to manage large broadcast systems, break them into subsystems, and have a solid technical background in video, audio, control, and data/networking. You will work closely with the Field Manager, Engineers, Lead Installers, and Project Managers, providing recommendations on installation standards, technologies, personnel, job specifics, and implementation. Upon completion, you will provide red-lined drawings and a commissioning report. In some cases, you may act as Project Foreman.

Responsibilities:

• Work with and advise design engineering during initial system design.
  
• Seek to understand end-user functional requirements and configure systems in a way that reflects the intended system design, as well as the client’s best interests.
  
• Attend drawing reviews.
  
• Proactively identify areas of concern with system design, equipment integration and end-user functionality needs.
  
• Work with the project manager and lead installer to create task lists for technicians.
  
• Perform signal tests to certify all cabling and ensure proper functionality.
  
• Program broadcast equipment (includes routers, switchers, mixers, CG, etc.) in our fabrication facility and at client sites.
  
• Communicate with the client, project manager, salesperson and engineer to provide status updates, issues and potential solutions.
  
• Work with on-site tech team to identify and finalize punch list items.
  
• Compile system commissioning reports.
  
• Act as the final point of quality control on work performed by the company staff and contractors, to ensure that all deliverables meet and conform to safety and quality requirements.
  
• Perform employee and client training.
  
• Serve as a role model for other technicians by exhibiting a high quality of work, an excellent work ethic, and a positive attitude.
  
• Work directly with subcontractors and/or third parties as necessary.
  
• Identify integration process inefficiencies and advocate for solutions.
  
• Provide technical support to company employees and clients in any areas of expertise.
  
• Possess the ability to pull, terminate, and label all types of broadcast video, audio and control cabling.
  
• All other duties as assigned and deemed appropriate.
  

Requirements

• Knowledge of broadcast A/V theory and IT networking
  
• Ability to read and comprehend CAD drawings, blueprints and technical drawing
  
• Experience with AutoCAD, Visio, Bluebeam Revu experience preferred
  
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook, and Excel)
  
• SBE, CTS-I, or CTS-D
  
• Minimum of 3 years of experience deploying and configuring systems and equipment below:
  
• ST 2110 IP media networks, PTP synchronization, boundary clocks, IP gateways, IP video test and measurement equipment. Audio-over-IP signals as Dante, AES67, AVB and familiarity with IPTV Systems.
  
• Broadcast equipment from Evertz, Ross, Imagine Communications, Sony, Grass Valley, Panasonic, JVC, EVS and AJA - including routers, switchers, cameras, servers, etc.
  
• Displays, including LCD, direct view LED, monitor walls, etc.
  
• Video signals including baseband SDI, component, composite/VBS, 2110-20, NDI, etc.
  
• Audio signals including balanced and unbalanced, line and mic, MADI, AES, Dante, AES67, etc.
  
• Ethernet traffic using Wireshark, as well as general network troubleshooting.
  
• Up to 70% travel, occasionally on a last-minute basis, for up to two weeks at a time.
  
• Occasional evening and weekend work.
  
• Ability to lift, raise, lower, push or carry up to 50 lbs. from ground to waist, waist to overhead and from one surface to another at mid level.
  
• Remaining in a stationary position, often sitting or standing for prolonged periods.
  
• Ability to ascend or descend structures like ladders, scaffolding, ropes or poles that require the use of both upper and lower body to climb up to 25 feet tall.
  
• Ability to work on equipment that is over individuals head and shoulders/at or below the shoulders while standing/sitting.
  

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