What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Ops Specialist, Telemundo Phoenix position at NBCUniversal?
Company Description
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Job Description
- Key member of the on-air production team at Phoenix, AZ, KTAZ TV with multiple duties.
- Technical Directing live and recorded programs, segments, spots, promos, and commercials using ROSS Overdrive.
- Ability to lead the execution of the news content with excellence, creativity, and professionalism under high demand and stressful situations, such as breaking news.
- Ability to build splits, boxes, and multi-layered effects on the switcher level.
- Ability to perform audio duties and show mixing as needed.
- Ability to perform ingest and signal acquisition duties as needed.
- Ability to perform editing duties, including videos for live newscasts under tight deadlines.
- Ability to work on special projects and elevate the production of our content.
- Ability to occasionally work from the field as needed.
- Keep inventory and perform daily housekeeping of all switcher effects and banks.
- Keep strict station quality standards.
- Proactively stay current with production changes and technology advancements designed to improve workflows.
- Willingness to help train colleagues.
- Take part in daily editorial meetings.
- Must have excellent time-management skills.
- Must have flexibility to work nights, early mornings, and weekends with short notice.
- This position requires producing content for OTT.
- File a daily Issue Tracker Discrepancy Report as needed.
Qualifications
- In-depth experience with ROSS switchers
- Able to edit on Non-Linear editing systems like Media Composer/Adobe Premiere.
- Fully knowledgeable in all aspects of television production.
- Knowledge of graphics devices such as Xpression.
- Knowledge of video server playback and ingest.
- 2 Years working in television news.
- Ability to multi-task necessary.
- Candidate must be able to work under stress and tight deadlines.
- Ability to react quickly and make last-minute decisions that will improve the technical execution of the editorial content.
- Ability to make last-minute schedule changes to keep the quality of our shows and operations.
- Ability to collaborate and work with all levels to drive our news vision.
- Strong people skills with the ability to work with all levels of management & fellow employees at a positive and professional level.
- A positive and motivated attitude to consistently raise the production standard.
- Willing to work at our Phoenix, AZ location.
- Unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
- Interested candidates must send a resume/CV through nbcunicareers.co
Desired Characteristics
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience directing live newscasts or bachelor’s degree in communications.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish).
- Familiarity with ROSS Dashboard.
Additional Information
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