This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who
are passionate about delivering critical broadcast and content services in a
high value, fast-paced and automation led environment.
The Broadcast engineering supervisors will manage a
team of people and be responsible for the real time management, support and
administration of complex data led and automation driven video and audio
infrastructure including studios, live galleries, operations centre,
post-production and MAM facilities.
Reporting to the Head of Systems & Engineering,
they will be responsible for ensuring the continuous uptime of critical high
value content services, servicing and maintaining infrastructure in line with
manufacturers guidelines and good practice as well planning and delivering
technology projects and upgrades.
Calm under pressure and with excellent
communication skills they will manage priorities and incidents, key
stakeholders, third party vendors and their teams.
The Broadcast Engineering Supervisors will work
closely with wider Premier League Studios technology colleagues and when
necessary, engage with colleagues across the wider PL business ecosystem.
Who we are
The Premier League is home to some of the most
competitive and compelling football in the world. The League and its Clubs use
the power and popularity of the competition to inspire fans, communities and
partners in the UK and across the world. The Premier League brings people
together from all backgrounds. It is a competition for everyone, everywhere and
is available to watch in over 900 million homes in 189 countries.
In November 2024, the Premier League announced it
was establishing a new in-house media operations business launching at the
start of the 2026/27 Premier League Season. Premier League Studios will be
responsible for all international media content production and distribution,
providing a best-in-class content service to the Premier League’s partners and
millions of passionate fans around the world.
The Premier League is an equal opportunities
employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish.
We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share
those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly
encourage applications from women, people from minority ethnic communities,
LGBTQ+ people and disabled people.
You will be expected to attend the office or site
visits in line with our company policy. All staff liaise closely with their
line manager to manage their time appropriately and according to their work and
team requirements.
The role
Duties include but are not
limited to:
- Manage, lead, develop and
inspire the first line Broadcast Engineering Team
- Be the lead technical
authority and escalation / incident manager on Premier League match days
- Work with IT colleagues to
monitor and optimize live and file media networks, addressing issues related to
multicast, Quality of Service (QoS), and redundancy protocols
- Work closely with
operations colleagues and third-party suppliers to manage and maintain service
and respond to incidents
- Responsible for on-premise
and SAAS Broadcast infrastructure, systems, and services
- Have excellent ST-2110 and
NMOS knowledge and experience
- Deep understanding of live
and post-production broadcast workflows
- Developing complex UItra-HD
and HDR workflows
- Ensure business and
industry best practices are followed
- Maintain and develop
disaster recovery plans
- Ensure all planned and
remedial works are managed in the ITSM ticket system
- Plan and implement upgrades
and patches
- Lead projects including
design, document, implementation and test
- Support production
colleagues working onsite and remotely
- Provide technical
leadership in response to service impacting issues
- Stay abreast of emerging
technologies, industry standards and practices to recommend and implement
improvements to existing system
- Technical authority for
change management
- Maintain comprehensive
documentation of system configurations, network diagrams, and standard operating
procedures
- Collaborate with
cross-functional teams to integrate broadcast equipment into IP-based workflows
- Manage suppliers against
SLAs and contracts
- Monitor and report service
availability.
Requirements for the role:
- Proven experience working in
a similar broadcast or production management role
- Team management,
development and coaching experience
- Experience with Ultra HD
& HDR standards and working practices
- Familiarity with
cloud-based broadcast solutions and virtualisation technologies
- Ability to manage, lead,
and prioritise tasks in a high-pressure environment
- Project management and
stakeholder management experience
- Experience managing
budgets, hardware lifecycles and maintenance schedules
- Strong verbal and written
communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to translate
technical language to non-technical people
- Experience implementing
Broadcast infrastructure upgrades and refreshes
- Experience using an ITSM or
ticketing system to track and resolve issues
- Hands on and remote
technical troubleshooting skills
- Must be able to demonstrate
experience and skills in the following core technologies:
- ST-2110 & NMOS networks
deployed on Arista fabric & EVS endpoints
- Ross Ultrix Platform &
Carbonite switchers
- Skyline Dataminer
- EVS Cerebrum
- Viz Mosart
- TAG Multiviewers
- EVS XT Servers
- Would be useful to
demonstrate experience and skills in some of the following technologies:
- Fonn Saga
- Fonn Mimir
- Qvest Quib
- Calrec Audio Consoles
- Riedel Artist Communication
systems
- Xytech scheduling system.
Our commitment to safeguarding includes implementing robust safer
recruitment procedures to assess the suitability of individuals applying for
roles that involve work with children and adults who are or may be at risk of
harm. For further information, please see our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Guidance.
We will
remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our
recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an
alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview
process to best support you, please contact recruitment@premierleague.com.