Post-Production Engineer

Primary Purpose:

The Post-Production Engineer will have the opportunity to apply their expertise to our Sound and Picture post-production facilities and workflows in use on some of the industry’s biggest studio feature films and episodic television drama.

In this varied, complex and challenging role they will primarily contribute to the architecture, configuration, deployment, and support of our sound and picture post-production systems, including storage, networking and peripheral services and solutions. There will also be a requirement to employ their technical knowledge and skills to support other business systems around the studio site, within production facilities such as our shooting stages and serviced offices for example.

The candidate should possess a successful track record of working in an engineering capacity in post- production and/or broadcast environments that deliver content of premium standard for film, television and streaming platforms. 

The role could also suit a candidate from an Audio-Visual systems commissioning background, experienced in deploying prime commercial projects, confident interfacing with key project stakeholders, and looking to apply and advance their expertise in a different industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as part of the Engineering team on the day to day running and support of post- production facilities systems

• Close liaison with post-production department staff to ensure good communication flow between stakeholders

• Build and maintain media servers, projection systems, network infrastructure, streaming and storage systems and related post-production equipment

• Assist with the calibration and lineup of post-production systems for both sound and picture

• Take ownership of assigned job tickets raised by front-of-house, facilities, and post- production staff

• Continually develop understanding of the workflows used by our post-production teams to facilitate optimisations and support

• Creation and maintenance of system documentation

• The ability to work occasional evenings and weekends on planned tasks during periods of

downtime and/or to support the post facilities running high profile productions

Skills Required:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a pro audio-visual engineering field

• Solid knowledge of audio and video wiring, terminations, and their translation to system documentation

• Solid understanding of A/V requirements such as sync, channel coherence etc

• Experience of configuring A/V DSP equipment

• Extensive experience of Windows and Mac operating systems

• Hands-on practical skills of e.g. rack builds, wiring installation and termination, equipment

repair and/or testing of connected systems

• Proactive, can work independently – but will ask for assistance when needed

• Understanding of industry recognised standards, technical specifications and best practices

• Ability to multitask and prioritise

• Able to remain calm and accurate under stress

• Good communication skills and professionalism is key -situational awareness is crucial

Desirable Skills

• Recent experience with Linux configuration and support

• Experience of network protocols and their convergence into post-production through video streaming and network audio technologies such as Dante and NDI

• Experience of production storage systems, e.g. DDP, PixStor

• Experience with virtualised machine environments and system imaging

• Knowledge of immersive sound formats including Dolby ATMOS

• Familiar with the principles and servicing of digital audio mixing consoles, particularly AMS Neve DFC and AVID S6

• Simple embedded projects with e.g. Arduino, RaspberryPi or ESP32

• Scripting experience incl. testing of scripts for basic automation tasks