Senior Broadcast Engineer

Job Title: Senior Broadcast Engineer

Class: Full-Time

Reports to: Chief Technology and Strategy Officer

Location: Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Bucks are looking for dedicated people who accept diversity, equity & inclusion in a workplace where everyone feels valued and encouraged.

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What We Offer:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• Pet Insurance
• 8 weeks of paid time off for parents to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Unlimited PTO
• Professional Development through our internal learning & development program - Antler Academy
• Employee Resource Groups
• Milwaukee Bucks and NBA League Discounts
• Company Paid Parking and Phone Allowance

Position summary:

The Senior Broadcast Engineer supports the broadcast facilities, hardware, software, and infrastructure of Fiserv Forum, including in-house video production studio, audio studio, broadcast data center and numerous editing, audio, and graphics stations. The Senior Broadcast Engineer interacts with and supports in-house Milwaukee Bucks TV production team, external truck broadcasters, NBA network, Marquette University network, and various entertainment acts. The Senior Broadcast Engineer is a full-time employee inclusive of Event Day Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for our studios, master control systems, cameras, and lighting.
• Provide training and support to technical and production staff in the audio/video studio.
• Maintain broadcast functionality and distribution, digital and analog.
• Perform regular checks on equipment to ensure functionality.
• Perform repairs to studio and field gathering equipment.
• Assist in maintaining broadcast and storage servers.
• Maintain spare part's inventory.
• Communicate with technical support from equipment vendors.
• Know the latest on broadcast technology.
• Design and recommend broadcast solutions.
• Help media and production teams implement broadcast plans.
• Other work and duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Ten years of related experience required.
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience with the SMPTE ST 2110 standards and workflows
• Extensive technical experience in live broadcast engineering, within medium to large multicamera production environments
• Expertise in multiple areas, including video switchers, audio consoles, intercoms, replay devices, graphics systems, KVM, video cameras, LED, AV, and IPTV systems.
• Understanding of video stream metadata, including triggers, timecode user bits, closed captioning, etc.
• Knowledge of IP networking and multicasting, including streaming media protocols (Dante, NDI, JPEG XS, AES67, RossTalk, RTP, RTSP, UDP, RTMP).
• Ability to solder, work with various power and hand tools.
• Handle complex, detailed workloads individually and as a collaborator.
• Must have strong service orientation.
• Must have strong communication skills that allow for working with individuals at varying levels of familiarity with these systems.
• Ability to lift equipment (up to 50 lbs.), work on ladders, work under raised floors and in the presence of electronics will be required.

Preferred experience:

• PC, Macintosh, and Linux computer hardware and operating systems
• Imagine ST 2110 routing system and MVs
• Operation of Arista and Cisco Layer 2 and Layer 3 equipment.
• Ross switcher, CG, and ST 2110 transport equipment
• GVG camera systems
• EVS replay and IP Director media Servers
• Cisco Vision IPTV
• Tripleplay IPTV
• Daktronics LED System
• Yamaha audio consols
• Crestron, Extron, Q-Sys and Audio Architect programming

All offers for employment with the Milwaukee Bucks are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. We will consider people with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state, and Federal laws.

The Milwaukee Bucks is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Ethnic Minority/Women/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We provide our employees with a robust employee benefits plan that focuses on the mental and physical wellness of our team. We strive to offer a flexible work environment that allows our team members to be productive in both their work and home lives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.