Building on our existing success in 2017 and 2018 Flux Broadcast are now looking to grow and expand our team. Focusing on the engineering and sales side of the business.

Alongside regular work with brands such as Topshop, Xbox, The BBC, Universal Music and Warner, we've also won awards for our work such as the 'Shorty Awards for Social Good' and Cannes Lions with McCann. We are looking to take 2018 and 2019 to a new level.

As a small but hard-working group, we are looking for confident, aspirational and dedicated people who are looking to learn and make their mark on the broadcast industry. We will give you all of the support and tools to take your career to the next level.
Our Vision and our Values
Flux Broadcast are a live streaming and video production company based in London built around bringing TV broadcast quality, online.

We want to deliver the same quality, stability and approach that is applied in the TV broadcast industry to online video. Whether we're working with live, or on-demand video. We think that quality content, a flexible and honest approach to work and great client experiences should always be at the heart of what we do.

We are passionate about what we do and as such we are confident that we will always provide an excellent experience for our clients. Through a tailored approach to each project, we bring a fun, helpful and flexible attitude to work, whilst utilising the most up to date technology to deliver outstanding results.

The Role
The Role will require you to report directly to Senior Management, whilst overseeing and leading the Junior Engineers and technicians to ensure that all technical requirements are in hand for any allocated projects ahead. You will work alongside the Head of Engineering to keep abreast of the ever changing broadcast and streaming environment to ensure our solutions are always market leading. You will be responsible for rigging and on occasion, operating the equipment when required. You will also be responsible for suggesting the best technical workflows for the event and making sure that all in-house equipment is de-rigged, organised and kept in a good working order.

The Candidate
The ideal candidate will have a positive, can do attitude. With ideally 1-2 years plus experience at another broadcast or streaming company. The candidate will be proactive and able to work well alone or within the wider team and will understand from a technical standpoint not only how, but why things are done. The candidate will be able to think on their feet and make evaluated decisions quickly based on the information in hand to effectively troubleshoot. The candidate will also have excellent organisation skills to ensure that issues and potential pitfalls are identified in the project planning stage.

The candidate will be an aspirational and hungry individual who is looking to take their career onto the next level and keen to put their mark on something. Working within a small team it is imperative that the candidate works well with others and can also work on their own.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

Leading the Engineering team in their day to day tasks
Looking into future proofing and improving systems and best practices of the Engineering team
Working with the Engineers to ensure maintenance of equipment and cabling is carried out
Undertaking research and testing on new systems and technologies (alongside the Head of Engineering) to improve the companies output and delivery
Preparing reports for improvements in systems and technologies
When required, assisting in training of new staff/freelancers on engineering practices
Learning and maximising the use of the internal kit
Organisation of equipment and cabling
Data Management of event footage onto NAS storage and organisation of this.
Some basic editing to create video packages

Project Based Responsibilities:

Working Project Managers to suggest best technical execution of equipment for each project
Working with the Engineering team to ensure we maximise the internal Flux equipment and streaming services
Independent execution of technical set-up and troubleshooting on projects without external help
Integration of Flux's best practices and operation of the technical aspect of a project to Flux's standards
Preparation of kit lists and technical diagrams for projects
Creation of thorough kit lists and preparation of kit for events
Thorough stress testing of all broadcast and streaming equipment for projects
Undertake site visits and network checks alongside PM and Engineers
Pre-event set-up of Flux's streaming services and systems (CMS, SBS, Social Posts, Streaming Servers)
Liaising with IT engineers and AV Technicians pre-event and on-site to ensure you have everything needed
Liaising with IT engineers and AV Technicians both pre-event and on-site
Leading freelance technical staff on-site to ensure correct set up and pack down of equipment

Required skills and experience:

2 years experience with either, streaming video, video production or audio engineering
Strong understanding of signal flow & interconnecting pieces of video or audio equipment
Basic IT networking
Strong computer skills
Troubleshooting
Resilient under pressure
Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Learn new technologies quickly
2:1 in a relevant degree or a proven practical application
Other requirements:
Passport to allow international travel for work
Full UK driving license

Desirable skills and experience:

Experience with live streaming technologies: FFMPEG / AVCONV / OBS / Wowza / Akamai / NDI
Experience with Haivision encoders
Understanding of video codecs, resolutions & formats
Understanding of vision mixing and live video production
Understanding of cameras: exposure / white balance / output formats
Understanding of basic audio routing & broadcast comms
Experience working in a live / high pressure environment
Experience with both Windows and Mac operating systems.
Experience with live video platforms Facebook / YouTube / Periscope / Twitch
Experience with editing packages: Premiere CC, Final Cut X, After Effects

Training provided:

Production gallery set up including: vision mixers, format convertors, comms, external recorders, scopes and monitoring
Camera set up and operation
Vision mixing and directing
Live streaming: encoders / video compression
Content Delivery Networks
Server architecture
Project management

Hours: Office 10-6 Monday to Friday but work outside of these hours will be required on events. Time in lieu for weekend work and flexible hours for late night/evening work.

Holiday: 28 working days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays.

Perks: Tastecard, Discount cinema tickets, Discounted Gym Memberships, International travel, Nice team!