Job Purpose:

The role of the MCR Engineer is to carry out a wide range of routine operational duties as prescribed by the MCR Supervisor to ensure implementation of the technical standards for the transmission of CNBC Arabia.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Receiving multiple live feeds from different destinations, maintaining the required audio and video quality for various programs and arrange for IFB.

- Ensure the recording of live programs & feeds from outside offices into the server, and tapes as a backup (Via Satellite, Fiber).

- Assist MCR Supervisor in MCR related projects.

- Assist and guide production operators in our bureaus regarding technical and SNG related problems if ever occur during transmission.

- Provide basic dubbing and format transfer services to News Room producers

- Quality Control and transcoding of all incoming package transfers to Media Servers

- Coordinate effectively with operators in the field to support remote operations via satellite.

- Support bureaus’ engineers/operators on tracking and solving problems.

- First level fault finding on the wide range of broadcast equipment, and take immediate preventative action to restore traffic

- Ensure Correct Satellite Access procedures are implemented on CNBC Arabia Leased space capacities.

- Monitoring and adjustment of incoming video streams according to the Broadcasting Technical Standards

- Broadcast standards including SDI, HD, PAL 625, NTSC 525, MPEG.

- Optical Fiber Technology.

- Measurement tools

- Broadcast media server workflows

- Newsroom production systems and procedures

- Live Position camera basic settings

- SNG - Field Operations/installation