Event Engineer, Cingularity

2 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom IMG Full time
Who We Are:At IMG, our Studios business use content and technology to power the world's passion for sport, working with global clients including The Premier League, The R&A, DP World Tour, Euroleague Basketball and Major League Soccer. We've built Europe's best-connected broadcast centre at Stockley Park, London, distributing 35,000 hours of content globally and creating some of the world's best sporting coverage. Our facilities include four broadcast studios, fifty edit suites and a multitude of radio, podcast, dubbing and VFX facilities, with specialisms in remote production and carbon reduction thanks to our Green to Screen initiative. Whether it's live coverage, archive, highlights, social media, branded content or feature films, we give the audience a front row seat to the best sport in the world.

The Company

Cingularity a highly specialised global fibre network provider enabling premium live broadcast TV transmission.

Our obsession with quality, performance, and network resilience, has allowed us to deliver services for companies including Amazon Prime, Warner Brothers Discovery, and ATP Media, where we are trusted to carry the live TV signals destined for their global TV audiences.

Cingularity was acquired by IMG Media in September 2022 to provide the expertise to guide IMG's remote production evolution toward a hybrid model of fibre, satellite, cloud and IP.

 

What You'll Do

Cingularity is seeking an Event Engineer from broadcast focused backgrounds to join its events team to help pave the way during our company's development and expansion over the coming years. 

As an Event Engineer, you will join the team responsible for on-site monitoring, supporting, maintaining, and implementing customer solutions for live broadcasts.

The position will be based in London at our office, 28 Hanbury Street, London, E1 6QR, United Kingdom.

You will also need to attend IMG studios Stockley Park, 5 Longwalk Rd, Hayes, Uxbridge UB11 1FE, United Kingdom for equipment builds. Due to the nature of the role, travelling worldwide for events will be necessary. From time to time, you will be expected to assist the MCR and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Pre-Event Staging and Testing

  • To pre-stage and test equipment for the events.

  • Create, Read, and interpret schematic and topology drawings based on customer requirements.

  • Engagement with end customer on pre-event meetings and discussions to ensure event success.

On-site at Events

  • To setup the event and perform all appropriate testing prior to transmission.

  • To monitor event-based equipment and associated customer video and data services.

  • To provide direct support to customers on-site.

  • Working with partners and suppliers as required via phone and email for service issues and other enquiries.

  • To ensure that all daily events are logged so end of day reports can be produced after each day's transmissions.

 

Knowledge and Experience

Engineering Capabilities

  • Ability to work under pressure on live broadcast events.

  • Ability to work long hours in line with live event transmission schedule.

  • Excellent problem-solving skills whilst on-site at event-based broadcasts.

  • Ability to follow engineering and technical diagrams to rig onsite event solutions.

  • Knowledge of live TV Broadcast environments and workflows.

Technical Knowledge and Experience

  • Proficient in making co-axial and ethernet (RJ45) cables.

  • Excellent knowledge of baseband video (SD-SDI,HD-SDI,UHD), audio, video routers and multiviewers.

  • Knowledge of optical fibre-based technologies with the experience of deployments and troubleshooting

  • Understanding of MPEG encoding/decoding (AVC/HEVC).

  • Understanding of JPEG2000 .

  • Familiarity with Net Insight products (Nimbra MSR, VA/N414) is desirable.

  • Ability to apply basic network configurations to equipment.

  • Ability to perform basic network troubleshooting of data/ telemetry services. 

  • Experience working as an event-based Broadcast Engineer or similar role.

  • Full Driving Licence.

Working Conditions

  • This is a 3-year fixed term contract

  • This role is based at our facility in 28 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR

  • You will be required to spend a considerable amount of time away supporting global events.

  • You must have the ability to work unsociable and extended hours as required to cover sporting events.

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