Broadcast Engineer

Benefits Insurance: District paid premiums for your choice of several medical,
dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents (at no added cost),
as well as life insurance plans.
Retirement: Membership in the California Public Employees Retirement

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Systems (CalPERS).
Vacation: Two weeks of paid vacation to start. Three weeks after five
years of year-round paid service.
Paid Holidays: 12 days.

Job Duties/Responsibilities
– Participates in and provides work direction to lower-level television
engineering and production staff relative to the operation, installation,
removal, and servicing of television production and digital and analog
broadcasting equipment such as cameras, videotape recorders, audio
recorders, switchers, amplifiers, studio lighting, encoders, transcoding
engines, IT networking equipment, and a UHF digital and microwave
system.
– Troubleshoots equipment, the television station’s network system and
engineering problems, and makes repairs or provides work direction over
equipment and system repairs.
– Analyzes and diagnoses engineering and software problems using
schematics and logic probes down to the circuit level.
– Makes recommendations to the Director of Television Engineering and
Technical Operations regarding operating procedures and the purchase
or modification of equipment and related matters. Assists in training
operations staff in the set up and operation of equipment

Minimum Requirements Education:

Sixty semester units from a recognized college or university, preferably
including 18 units of college-level courses in telecommunications,
information technology, electronics, computer science, electrical
engineering or a related field. A certificate of completion of specialized
curriculum in telecommunications from the armed forces may be
substituted for the required education or additional qualifying experience
may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis
provided that the requirement of high school or evidence of equivalent
educational proficiency is met.

Experience:

Five years of experience in a broadcast cable, or post production facility
with responsibility for the maintenance of technical equipment used in
color video production, recording, and transmission, and the
maintenance of FCC-required logs and reports.

Special:

A valid California Driver License Use of an automobile FCC General
Class License, Society of Broadcasting Engineers (SBE) Broadcast
Technologist Certification, or higher certification

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SPECIAL NOTE: Employees in this class may work any shift in a 24
hour, 7 days a week broadcast operation.

Desirable Qualifications KLCS is looking for a highly qualified, motivated, and experienced
broadcast engineer. KLCS is a predominantly file based environment, so
IT skills are essential in this position. Hand’s on familiarity with HD-SDI
infrastructure is also required for an ideal candidate. The master control
environment is a fully automated system including satellite ingest as well
as play out. Familiarity with automation is highly desired. The hiring
department highly prefers knowledge of microwave systems as well as
terrestrial paths. Knowledge of ATSC encoding systems is also highly
preferred. The ideal candidate will have a background of achievement
and responsibility.
KLCS will be rebuilding its infrastructure in the near future including the
studio, master control and the School Board remote site. This is an
opportunity to become part of a technology team that is nationally
recognized for excellence.

Employment Selection Process We anticipate receiving a number of well qualified applicants for this
position; therefore, there will be a competitive process. The hiring
departments have requested that we proceed with the selection process
in an expeditious and timely manner. To honor this request we will be
adhering to a pre-planned employment assessment schedule. The
tentative assessment process consists of a Training and Experience
Evaluation (in the form of a scored questionnaire built into the application
system, and a Technical Interview. All candidates will be notified via
e-mail of the next steps in the selection process shortly after recruitment
closes. Also, please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net
as an approved sender so that messages aren’t accidentally placed into
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The Los Angeles Unified School District intends that all qualified persons
shall have equal opportunities for employment and promotion.

Reasonable accommodations in completing an application and testing
are available to individuals with disabilities. Please call (213) 241-3455
for more information.

Additional Posting Information

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Selection and promotion are based on a competitive employment
assessment process. Candidates who pass all parts of the assessment
process are placed on a hiring (eligibility) list based on their assessment
score. Hiring departments may make job offers to candidates on the top
three ranks of the hiring list. Eligibility typically lasts for 12 months. The
hiring list resulting from this assessment process may be used to fill open
positions in related job classifications.

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