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Job Description

Use company-supplied test equipment, tools, and service manuals to repair and maintain video, audio, film, and media-related equipment.

Familiarity with basic Volt Ohm Meters, Signal Generators, Frequency Counters, Digital Clamp Multimeters, and Ammeters is required

Familiarity with project boxes, breadboarding, soldering, kit assembly, and component replacement is required.

Basic engineering design skills including simple circuit design, power calculations, voltage regulation, and signal routing is required.

Ability to use equipment service manuals, read schematics, understand signal flow, and troubleshoot faulty equipment using our service manuals is required.

Familiarity with analog and digital video and audio equipment is a plus but not required.

Once familiar with our video, audio, and film equipment, you must recognize technical issues as they arise, and either resolve these routine technical issues or refer complex issues to higher levels.

Responsibilities

1. Work with department supervisors to establish maintenance schedule and procedures for all studio equipment.
2. Take direction from supervisors regarding daily priorities.
3. Meet daily goals as your work product directly feeds our post-production teams.
4. Perform continuous, routine video signal quality checks and report technical issues to supervisors and perform corrections as needed.
5. Use shared workflow documents allowing all team members to view the status of maintenance and repair projects within our facilities. Update your progress throughout the day to allow subsequent workers to know when to expect your work product.
6. Be kind and supportive to non-technical fellow employees whose job may involve operating the equipment you are maintaining.
7. Must have the skills to recognize a variety of video, audio, sync, and data issues that may be signs of sub-standard or failing equipment.
8. Must be capable of producing error-free work or identifying what errors exist in your work product, prior to its return to full operation in our studio facilities by non-technical personnel.
9. Remain open to process improvement, as all your work product empowers co-workers to perform their daily tasks.
10. Following an initial orientation period, work toward achieving daily and weekly throughput goals to meet performance expectations.
11. Accept coaching and direction from supervisors to improve performance.
12. Work under direct supervision and follow standard procedures and written instruction to accomplish assigned tasks without errors.
13. Collaborate in a supportive, team environment emphasizing learning new skills and receiving constructive input from supervisors.
14. Recognize your role as part of a larger workflow supplying other team members with work product that ultimately creates finished, error-free client deliverables.

Education and Experience Requirements

You must come equipped with the technical familiarity required to operate our test equipment, tools, and extensive service manuals with accompan