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PBS Western Reserve is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from women, minorities and persons with disabling conditions. We are dedicated to providing broad outreach regarding job vacancies at the station. We seek help of local organizations in referring qualified applicants to our station. Organizations that wish to receive our vacancy information should contact the station by calling 330-677-4549. No outside agency referrals and no phone calls or walk-ins will be accepted. 

Chief Engineer

The Chief Engineer acts as part of the overall management team in providing strategic and operational direction for the station, including budgetary and day-to-day management for broadcast technical operations.

Essential Duties:

  • Create and maintain annual budgets for broadcast technical operations.
  • Manage daily activities of broadcast technical operations.
  • Develop short and long-term capital plans for all broadcast technical.
  • Communicate directly with the organization’s FCC attorneys and keep informed on all FCC broadcast-related legal technical and reporting requirements to ensure compliance.
  • Act as the organization’s point-person for the Public Broadcasting Service’s MVPD (multichannel video programming distribution) broadcaster agreements (i.e., Hulu, YouTubeTV, Local Now, etc.) and ensure the organization’s responsibilities to those services are met.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Prepare bid specifications, identify potential vendors, select vendors and create purchase orders for capital improvement projects.
  • Attend, participate, and represent the organization at Public Broadcasting Service technical conferences, meetings, or webinars; Ohio Broadcast Educational Commission engineering meetings; consumer and electronics shows; National Association of Broadcaster and Ohio Broadcaster Association meetings or webinars.
  • Responsible for hiring, training, scheduling, and supervising broadcast and technical operations personnel.
  • Provide technical specifications, equipment/cost information, and documentation for funding broadcast-related requests.
  • Advise management and staff, with the technical implications of various broadcast-related projects or plans and assist in the implementation if there is a decision to move forward with the projects.
  • Responsible for hiring, training, scheduling, and supervising broadcast and technical operations personnel.

 

PBS Western Reserve is an EEO/AA employer, and women, minorities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Background check and drug testing may be required. No outside agency referrals and no phone calls or walk-ins will be accepted. Resumes and references should be submitted through Indeed.com.