Chief Engineer

Sinclair's content technology is central to operational excellence and to connecting audiences with trusted news across broadcast, cable, streaming, and digital platforms. TNND is seeking an experienced, technology-focused Chief Engineer to lead engineering for its national news production operation.

This role owns the reliability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle of TNND's live-production and media systems. The Chief Engineer leads the engineering team and turns operational needs into dependable workflows in partnership with editorial, production, operations, and Corporate technology teams. Networking, enterprise monitoring, cybersecurity, and shared-infrastructure decisions are Corporate-led; the Chief Engineer supplies broadcast requirements, supports implementation, and keeps TNND systems aligned with those standards.

The successful candidate combines hands‑on engineering depth with calm incident leadership, disciplined planning, and a service‑oriented approach to daily live news.

• Own the end-to-end technical health and operational readiness of TNND's production environment, with direct accountability for reliable daily live output across an extended and variable schedule.
• Lead, develop, schedule, and set priorities for engineering staff and technical support coverage; establish clear escalation paths and ensure appropriate on‑call response for critical operations.
• Serve as TNND's senior engineering subject‑matter expert and incident leader, coordinating rapid restoration, clear stakeholder communication, and follow‑through during high‑pressure production events.
• Partner with editorial, production, operations, Corporate IT, digital, cybersecurity, facilities, and distribution teams to align technical systems with newsroom priorities; serve as TNND's broadcast liaison for Corporate‑led networking, monitoring, security, and shared infrastructure.
• Translate business and production requirements into documented architectures, standards, operating procedures, project plans, lifecycle roadmaps, and budget recommendations.

• Engineer, maintain, and support the integrated control‑room ecosystem, including cameras and robotics, production switchers, automated production control, real‑time graphics, studio displays, audio consoles and processing, intercom/IFB, teleprompters, tally, routing, multiviewers, sync/reference, video servers, record/playback, encoders/decoders, and contribution/distribution interfaces.
• Administer and optimize Ross Over Drive automated production control for live news, including show and template configuration, rundown execution, device control, graphics/audio/robotics coordination, NRCS/MOS integration, operator workflows, recalls/macros, and tested manual fallback procedures.
• Support Ross XPression Tessera/Tessera One and related XPression workflows for pixel‑accurate, synchronized content across studio displays and video walls, including region mapping, real‑time graphics and data, external video inputs, signal timing, playout control, and recovery procedures.
• Validate software, firmware, control, graphics, and workflow changes in a test or rehearsal process before air; maintain approved configuration baselines and rollback plans.
• Work directly with directors, producers, operators, editors, and graphics teams to improve repeatability while preserving the flexibility required for breaking news and late rundown changes.

• Maintain dependable integrations among the newsroom computer system (NRCS), MOS‑connected tools, ingest, editing, media asset management, shared storage, archive, graphics, playout, and distribution…