Live Broadcast Operations Technician

QVC, Inc.; West Chester (Chester County); On-site; USD 25,000 - 44,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Paid volunteer hours

Company discounts

Health benefits day 1

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and live social shopping leader seeking a Media Operations Technician to ensure accurate transmission output across broadcast platforms. This onsite role in West Chester, PA requires 1st–3rd shift availability on a part-time basis.

You will monitor, playout and stream live content, troubleshoot system issues and perform asset management across media workflows while collaborating with the NOC and other teams.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of recent engineering, control room, media operations or network operations experience in a television broadcast environment.
• Experience operating Media Operations Switcher and related equipment.
• Experience performing basic troubleshooting of both standard and high-definition broadcast video and audio signals.
• Experience in a server-based broadcast operation.
• Must have understanding of analog and digital signal chains, video and audio levels.
• Overall knowledge of the television production processes broadcast operations and technical production requirements.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain the health and quality of all outbound transmission/streaming & inbound returns.
• Support additional live feeds and social media simulcast programming.
• Responsible for playout of all live and non-live channels
• Execute live streaming to multiple platforms.
• Monitor and interact with the system dashboards to ensure systems and platform monitoring is fully functional, troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Conduct routine QC checks on software, processes, equipment and all incoming and outgoing video and audio signals.
• Preparation, recording, ingest, archiving, restoring and general Asset Management of media workflows and storage systems.
• Perform service recovery according to set procedures during both server-based play out and live shows.

Skills

Engineering experience

Media operations

Network operations

Switcher operation

Broadcast troubleshooting

Server-based operations

Signal chains understanding

Education

College degree or technical training

Job description

QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and live social shopping leader seeking a Media Operations Technician to ensure accurate transmission output across broadcast platforms. This onsite role in West Chester, PA requires 1st–3rd shift availability on a part-time basis.

You will monitor, playout and stream live content, troubleshoot system issues and perform asset management across media workflows while collaborating with the NOC and other teams.