Production Engineer

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Full Time Job
Role Description
The Media Production Engineer is responsible for providing engineering expertise to the Post-Production & Media Operations group, including troubleshooting support for issues encountered by the production team and providing appropriate resolutions in a timely manner. In addition, the Media Production Engineer is responsible for assessing and processing all rejections that happen against the department's deliveries, both in technical and operational context.
Specific Responsibilities
Identify, prioritize, resolve, document and communicate both technical and operational issues providing overall Quality Control of daily operations.
Estimate problem resolution times, either independently or in collaboration with other team members. Adequately communicating and managing the expectations of clients
Lead effort in investigating client rejections, providing production with root cause and course of correction.
Provide support and troubleshooting to production groups on a day-to-day basis
Train production groups on newly onboarded workflows
Set-up and execution of workflows and profiles for one-off media jobs.
Support role for excessive production work
Conduct training for operational personnel, of new procedures and projects.
Set up, operate and test a wide variety of video, audio and metadata applications running on both hardware and software
Other duties as needed
Capabilities & Skills
Advanced written and verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with various stakeholders
Knowledge of A/V processing tools, metadata handling and creation tools, and the post-production environment.
Advanced computer skills and the ability to understand and work with a variety of software tools in a production environment .
Familiarity with computer system networking concepts and terminology.
Knowledge of the technical specifications and their uses (.e.g. codecs, wrappers, VBI, closed captioning, frame rates, aspect ratios, bit rates, color space, GOP structures, standards conversion and metadata).
Ability to act as a subject matter expert when a production tool is developed by the in-house application development team.
Ability to work additional hours as needed.
Ability to work onsite to fulfill daily operational support needs.
Qualifications & Experience
Experience with content transformation applications such as Adobe Premiere, Vantage, Rhozet and ProTools, along with know-how on file transport technologies such as Aspera, Signiant, Smartjog and FTP.
Experience working in a post-production environment, preferably with experience with post-production hardware such as tape decks, vector scopes, captioning, text inserters, signal flow and patch-bays.
Understanding of IP addressing, permissions, networking concepts and terminology
Strong communication skills.
Advanced degree or comparable work experience in media/video/audio realm.
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