Broadcast Systems Engineer (16 Month FTC)

Job Description

We currently have an opportunity to join a leading Broadcast Technology Company as part of the Broadcast Project Team for a 16 month FTC, delivering new and exciting projects across multiple brands within the business.

The Team: You will be joining a small, expert team of project engineers dedicated to delivering complex studio and broadcast systems projects across all News Broadcasting brands. Our team supports iconic names such as talkSPORT, talkSPORT2, Virgin Radio, Times Radio, Talk, and News Studios, ensuring our technical infrastructure remains world-class.

Your Role: As Systems Project Engineer, reporting to the Lead Broadcast Projects Engineer, you will contribute to the design, installation, documentation and delivery of audio and video broadcast systems across the Radio and Television platforms located at The News Building in London Bridge. Your main focus will be the lifecycle of a build. This could range from commissioning a new studio or production gallery or migrating traditional baseband SDI to IP-based Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Physical Infrastructure: Racking mounting broadcast equipment rooms (MCR/CAR).
• Cable Management: Design and install copper (Cat6a), fiber (OS2/OM4), and legacy SDI cabling to ensure robust connectivity.
• System Documentation: Create and maintain the high level documentation for the facility, including AutoCAD/VidCAD signal flows, detailed cable schedules, and rack elevations.
• Hardware Commissioning: Install and physically test broadcast systems equipment, including; mixing consoles, camera CCUs, and multi-viewer systems.
• Workflow Design: Partner with production teams to ensure the physical layout of the furniture and hardware meets the creative brief for ergonomics and speed.
• IP Orchestration: Implement and maintain PTP (Precision Time Protocol) to ensure audio and video synchronization across the network.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Technical proficiency in broadcast systems, including an understanding of IP Networks such as SMPTE ST 2110 and AOIP AES67.
• Proven background in delivering projects within a broadcast environment.
• Working knowledge of NMOS (IS-04/IS-05) for device and connection management
• Familiarity with streaming platforms and protocols like SRT, HLS, and NDI to support multi-platform content delivery.
• Understanding of IT networking principles as they apply to broadcast technology, specifically Cisco and Arista CLI.
• Self-motivated individual with excellent organisational skills and a commitment to project timelines.
• Effective communication skills to to translate complex technical requirements into functional designs while working across different technical departments.

We are News Broadcasting: Our people create award-winning national and local radio, podcasts and first in class social, digital and video platforms which have become destinations for millions of listeners across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Our success is rooted in delivering content our audiences love. Since Chris Evans returned to his spiritual home at Virgin Radio UK, the whole schedule has seen record audiences, and we’ve launched three new Virgin channels: Anthems, Chilled and 80’s. talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station, partnering with the Premier League, the England Cricket Board and many others to deliver live commentaries and analysis from the best in the business. Times Radio launched in June 2020 bringing together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with the world-class speech radio and podcasting experience of Wireless.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, ge