Event Engineer, Cingularity
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IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world's premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world's premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality. Working Conditions: This is a 3-year fixed term contract This role is based at our facility in 28 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR You will be required to spend a considerable amount of time away supporting global events. You must have the ability to work unsociable and extended hours as required to cover sporting events. This role is being hired into Cingularity a division of IMG Studios who are specialists in bespoke live video networking and production solutions. Cingularity operate at each stage of the remote production workflow, delivering quality network designs and primary distribution services to premium broadcast networks and sports rights holders globally. Please follow this link to understand more about Cingularity's work: https://cingularity.tv/what-we-do/ The Company: Cingularity a highly specialised global fibre network provider enabling premium live broadcast TV transmission. Our obsession with quality, performance, and network resilience, has allowed us to deliver services for companies including Amazon Prime, Warner Brothers Discovery, and ATP Media, where we are trusted to carry the live TV signals destined for their global TV audiences. Cingularity was acquired by IMG Media in September 2022 to provide the expertise to guide IMG's remote production evolution toward a hybrid model of fibre, satellite, cloud and IP.
Responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Pre-Event Staging and Testing
- To pre-stage and test equipment for the events.
- Create, Read, and interpret schematic and topology drawings based on customer requirements.
- Engagement with end customer on pre-event meetings and discussions to ensure event success.
- On-site at Events
- To setup the event and perform all appropriate testing prior to transmission.
- To monitor event-based equipment and associated customer video and data services.
- To provide direct support to customers on-site.
- Working with partners and suppliers as required via phone and email for service issues and other enquiries.
- To ensure that all daily events are logged so end of day reports can be produced after each day's transmissions.
- Knowledge and Experience
- Engineering Capabilities
- Ability to work under pressure on live broadcast events.
- Ability to work long hours in line with live event transmission schedule.
- Excellent problem-solving skills whilst on-site at event-based broadcasts.
- Ability to follow engineering and technical diagrams to rig onsite event solutions.
- Knowledge of live TV Broadcast environments and workflows.
- Technical Knowledge and Experience
- Proficient in making co-axial and ethernet (RJ45) cables.
- Excellent knowledge of baseband video (SD-SDI,HD-SDI,UHD), audio, video routers and multiviewers.
- Knowledge of optical fibre-based technologies with the experience of deployments and troubleshooting
- Understa
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