MCR Live Sport Operator

What's your new role about?
ROLE PURPOSE.

Live and breathe sport? Transmission experience in live sports broadcasting? Ready to ‘grand slam' your way into a brand-new role with one of the fastest growing sports broadcasters in the world? 

As our MCR Live Sport Operator, your responsibilities will include broadcasting various live sports events to our unique OTT product. Our OTT channels transmit globally to our various territories, and you'll take ownership for managing these communications as well as communications between our global production facilities. 

We're a dynamic, evolving ‘live' environment where no two days are the same. We thrive on the excitement of transmitting seamless sporting events to our subscribers around the world. We are proud of our vibrant Leeds team at the helm of the broadcast arm of the business. So, if you're also a bit of a chameleon who enjoys adapting to changing business needs, cultures, conditions and work responsibilities, then this could be the role for you! 

Due to our live sports schedule, this is a shift-based role so working hours are very flexible including nights, weekends, national and public holidays. Other benefits include 25 days' annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, access to learning portal, training and development and more. 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Executing scheduled live events to ensure exact content is broadcast at the correct time 
• The Routing and Line up of live streams.
• The Monitoring and quality control of up to 10/30 live events at a time.
• Loading, preparation and transmission of playout schedules 
• Ensuring all scheduled media is available for playout each day and communication with the relevant channels if anything is missing/incorrect (e.g. graphics or production) 
• Providing support of all Transmission services and equipment.
• Pre-empting all possible faults and a resolution plan ready to minimise ‘on-air' impact
• Review Workorders in ScheduAll, to ensure technical resources and signals planned are compliant with agreed live delivery procedures.
• Accurate reporting of any on air incidents and technical problems.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience working in transmission. 
• Experience working in a live sports environment. 
• Operational and technical experience with broadcast automation systems 
• Operational knowledge of Dataminer (nice to have)
• Knowledge and passion for Live Sport
• An understanding of the end-to-end broadcast process.