Broadcast & Media Systems Engineer Degree Apprenticeship Level 6 Salford

Contract Type : Fixed-Term Apprenticeship Full-time for 36 months

Department : Operations Engineering

Location : Salford - Quay House

Salary : 22950

Join us as an apprentice at the BBC to give yourself the opportunity to kick‑start your career in a job youll love. Were committed to your skills and talent development. Youll learn on‑the‑job developing your knowledge and skills in an area that interests you while working towards your apprenticeship qualification with one of our learning providers.

Engineering in the BBC develops supports and maintains the systems and infrastructure that keeps the BBC on air. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the next generation of media systems engineers helping the BBC to deliver content for TV radio online and other digital services. Youll be working on unique challenges hand in hand with the best creative minds in the UK.

Learn about technologies and systems for TV radio and digital channels and how they produce high-quality content thats distributed around the world. Also learn the industry standards for the set-up of broadcastcommunication systems media content systems and IP networks.

Develop the specialised skills to design build and maintain the media production and broadcasting technologies and systems that will take the BBC into the future.

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Depending on where you are based you will work on the front line supporting TV and Radio Production networks systems and devices that are behind our flagship services such as Radio 1 2 3 4 and 5 BBC ONE SIX and TEN News BBC Breakfast BBC Sport BBC Childrens World TV News our 40 World Service Radio services BBC London and Arabic and Persian TV services.

The teams are also responsible for our master control rooms and telecommunication network systems. You will be trained and developed to support our TV & Radio studios and infrastructure and our master control rooms

As a Broadcast Engineering apprentice (EAS
26) this is brilliant opportunity to learn grow and contribute you will :

Develop your understanding of how live content is acquired and presented to studios recording areas playout facilities and distribution platforms in the formats they each require. You will learn how we manipulate audio and video and grow to understand the challenges faced in servicing a large broadcasting organisation.

Develop operational and engineering skills learning how to use a variety of tools and systems as well as how they work and what we do when situations go wrong.

Develop team working and communication skills working as part of a varied team providing services and talking directly to other departments across the BBC.

Youll study for your industry recognised apprenticeship qualification learning both on and off the job. This meansundertaking blended learning through a series of online and face to face teaching blocks at Birmingham City University including :

• Audio and Vision Engineering
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• IP Networks
• Computer Science
• Broadcast Technology
• Database Technology
• Engineering Mathematics

For more information on this apprenticeship standard please visit this link.

Were interested in your passion for working at the BBC and your enthusiasm for delivering world‑class content and operational excellence to our audiences. Were not focused on your qualifications; instead we look for potential and offer you the opportunity to apply your transferable strengths and experience to work in different ways.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply :

• Are you fascinated by how things work
• Do you love solving technical problems or have a passion for media technology
• You can manage multiple deadlines and demands on your time.
• You have a calm and focused approach to changing circumstances.
• You are an enthusiastic self‑starter flexible and adaptable to out‑of‑hours working.

This scheme is aimed at…