Production Engineer at Iyuno-SDI Group

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• $68K – $86K a year is the estimated salary for this role in Los Angeles, CA.

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Los Angeles, USA

7/7/2022

Production Engineer

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, 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.
• 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.