Lead Broadcast Engineer

Reference: JOB-8548

Lead Broadcast Engineer

2-Year Fixed-Term Contract

Christy Media Solutions is recruiting an experienced Lead Broadcast Engineer to join our client, playing a central role in the engineering and delivery of their broadcast operations for a key client.

This is a hands-on, client-facing engineering position requiring deep broadcast technical expertise, particularly around SMPTE ST 2110 fault-finding and troubleshooting, alongside the ability to remain calm and communicate clearly in a pressured live environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the smooth running and technical quality of live operations.
• Take engineering ownership of live feeds through technical facilities.
• Act as a technical point of reference for clients.
• Identify technical issues and develop appropriate solutions.
• Work closely with engineering and operational teams to support clients before, during and after events.
• Manage Live Event Supervisors, MCR operators and Transmission operators during live operations.
• Ensure appropriate staffing and technical knowledge is available for live events.
• Produce incident reports and communicate technical and operational issues.
• Document technical and operational procedures.
• Recommend improvements to technical workflows and service-delivery strategies.

What We’re Looking For

You will need a proven broadcast engineering background, including management-level experience and extensive experience within live television environments.

Strong technical knowledge should include:

• Deep SMPTE ST 2110 knowledge, particularly genuine fault-finding and troubleshooting.
• Transmission systems, including SCTE and closed captions.
• Video encoding and streaming protocols.
• Broadcast technology and working methods.
• TV production processes.
• Post-production workflows.

Experience with control systems and Pebble Beach transmission systems is also relevant.

Alongside your technical capability, you will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills, lead ership ability and the confidence to manage and motivate people within a live environment.

You should also be comfortable communicating complex technical problems and solutions clearly while keeping clients informed.

If you are a technically strong broadcast engineer who can combine deep troubleshooting expertise with confident client communication and leadership in a live environment, we’d be keen to hear from you.