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Assistant Chief Engineer

KRON

San Francisco, CA 10-07-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
KRON 4 in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Assistant Chief Engineer.

The Assistant Chief Engineer's main responsibilities are to manage the operations of the day-to-day station technical staff and systems. Candidates must have experience supervising a television broadcast engineering & operations department with a large news operation.

Candidate must have a strong & proven background in the following areas:
• State of the art broadcast equipment, with an emphasis on control room and news gathering equipment and software
• Strong experience with PCs, laptops, servers, and networking equipment is required
• Experience managing the engineering maintenance staff
• Experience overseeing control rooms, studio operations, and associated staff
• RF technology including satellite and microwave transmission
• Cellular newsgathering equipment
• Experience with IP based media workflow is desired
• Knowledge of FCC Broadcast rules and regulations
• Experience with high-powered solid-state broadcast transmitters is preferred
• Experience with managing and maintaining fleet vehicles is preferred

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who pays attention to detail and is a team player. Other key responsibilities, attributes, and characteristics include:
• Maintain positive and proactive communication on all technology related issues among all other departments (News, Sales, Production & Promotions)
• Assist in effective management of operating and capital budgets
• Flexible, but also focused on completing tasks and projects
• Must be able to occasionally work weekends, longer hours or varying shifts when necessary to meet production and broadcast emergencies or deadlines.
• Knowledge of CAD drawing programs (Visio), editing, (Adobe Premiere) and MS Office Suite preferred
• 5 years of broadcast TV maintenance preferred
• A college degree and SBE Certification are highly desired
• Able to cover for the Chief Engineer and IT Manager in their absence
• Any and all other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will be a key part of the team, where opinions and collaboration are the norm. Maintaining an atmosphere where people enjoy coming to work will be a key element of both the new Assistant Chief and our team's success.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqm6oz-18-119-160-154-42 in your application.

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Nexstar Media Group is America’s largest local television and media company with 196 full power stations (including partner stations) in 114 markets addressing nearly 63% of US television households and a growing digital media operation.