What are the responsibilities and job description for the Broadcast Engineer position at Onward Search?
As a Broadcast Engineer, you’ll have the chance to shape the technology that powers one of the world’s fastest-growing sports leagues. This hands-on role in a startup environment offers the opportunity to directly impact the league’s growth and reach.
Job Duties
- Technical Operations & Maintenance: Provide frontline support for all broadcast technology, maintaining seamless operations for live production, post-production, and content creation.
- Systems Troubleshooting: Rapidly resolve technical issues in high-stakes, live production environments to maintain reliability and a smooth broadcast experience.
- Project Design & Implementation: Collaborate with the wider team to innovate, deploy, and support evolving production systems—whether on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-based.
- Live Production Support: Serve as a core technical resource during live broadcasts, elevating production quality and efficiency.
- Documentation & Standards: Develop and maintain clear documentation and best practices for broadcast workflows, ensuring operational efficiency and knowledge sharing.
- Continuous Improvement: Embrace new approaches and continuous improvement, challenging established norms to drive innovation and operational excellence in broadcast technology.
- Product Development: Help us to shape, iterate, build and improve a complex network of in-built solutions to change how live sport is produced, operated and delivered with a view to building out a B2B solution
Basic Requirements
- 4 years in a broadcast/production/content creation environment, with a track record of providing technical support and innovation
- Proficiency in IP-based video workflows
- Strong foundation in broadcast systems, including video switchers, audio consoles, server-based playout, and intercom systems.
- Understanding of how storytelling plays the core role for fans and where technology unlocks this now and in the future
- Excellent communication skills, ability to manage time and processes effectively and a collaborative mindset.
Salary : $125 - $150
