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Job Title: Chief Engineer
Department: Engineering/Technical
Reporting To: Directorof Technical Operations
Employment Type: FullTime
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Job Description:
Are you ready for your next challenge Or maybe youre ready to take that next step up in your career Cant decide if you want to live near the beach or near the mountains Audacy Richmond is the perfect place for your career and for living.
Youll get to work with established and dominant stations in the market including two highpowered FM stations one directional AM newstalk station one nondirectional AM sportstalk station as well as more FM stations and translators. We own a few of our facilities too which means youll never be bored! For the historybuffs our Varina transmitter site holds WRVAAM and WRVQFM and was built in 1938 on an old battlefield.
Richmond is Market #51 and located less than two hours from the mountains two hours from the beach and two hours from our nations capital. We have a mixture of cityliving and countryliving; your choice! With the James River running right through our city there is easy access for kayaking rock climbing and hiking. Richmond is the only urban city in Americawith Class III and Class IV rapids running through our downtown area! We have a thriving restaurant culture in Richmond including craft breweries and awardwinning cuisine. Tired of it being hot all the time or cold for too many months out of the year Richmond has all four seasons to enjoy.
A taste of some of the projects we have comping up; were converting our studios to the Axia network with brand new boards; we are installing a new antenna for WTVRFM and rearranging that transmitter site space.
Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator medical dental vision telemedicine flexible spending accounts health savings account disability life insurance critical illness hospital indemnity accident insurance paid time off (sick vacation personal parental volunteer) 401(k) retirement plan student loan payment assistance program legal assistance life assistance program identity theft protection discounted home and auto insurance and pet insurance.
Responsibilities
What Youll Do:
- Plan & develop all aspects of radio technical facilities including telephone satellite STL computers and networks.
- Select install and maintain highpower transmitters and all associated equipment; modify and document all broadcast circuitry.
- Purchase studio equipment; maintain mixing consoles and all associated instudio equipment.
- Maintain digital mass storage systems
- Maintain integrity of all onair and online products including high power FM HD AM directional antenna systems digital audio & audio streaming
- Install broadcast equipment at studios transmitter sites in company vehicles at remote broadcast locations and at twoway sites in keeping with good engineering practice.
- Install maintain troubleshoot and repair all broadcast radio station equipment including transmitters antennas STL satellite downlinks Wide Orbit automation system studio equipment remote equipment generators telephone system and related other equipment.
- Ability to do component level troubleshooting desired.
- Review logs weekly for correct and complete entries and EAS tests and tower lighting requirements.
- Generator testing fueling and supervision of maintenance.
- UPS testing and management of maintenance
- Create instructional materials and teach proper use of technical equipment
- Effectively communicate and partner with programming staff as well as outside partners and vendors
- Oversee IT Assistant and train on Engineering aspects
- Assist in planning and development of all aspects of technical facilities including studios transmitters telephone systems satellite STL computers and data networks.
- Must know how to maintain and troubleshoot tube transmitters and solid state transmitters
- Fix and/or facilitate building maintenance
- Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as necessary.
Qualifications
Required & Preferred:
- Minimum five years of broadcast engineering experience. Handson FM HD AM transmitter experience and both Directional and Nondirectional Antenna AM experience.
- Must have at least four years of college or technical school and/or training or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to inspect repair and maintain all broadcast radio station equipment including transmitters antennas satellite downlinks automation systems studio equipment remote equipment generators telephone systems and related other equipment
- Knowledge of FCC Rules and Regulations
- Ability to provide oncall status 24/7 in case of equipment failure
- Availability to work various hours/days including some weekends and holidays.
- A valid drivers license satisfactory completion of a motor vehicle record check and if the position requires the use of the applicants vehicle proof of insurance is required.
- SBE or other relevant Certifications / Licenses is a plus
- The candidate must have strong verbal and writing communications skills and proven solid time management skills including the ability to multitask in a multiple project environment.
- Experience in project planning management and .
- IT & Network knowledge and experience required and experience with digital audio and audio streaming.
- Experience with modern digital audio systems including SAS Wide Orbit Vox Pro and Livewire is highly desirable
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
While performing the duties of this job the employee will frequently be required to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Important Notes:
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About Us
Audacy is a scaled leading multiplatform audio content and entertainment company differentiated by its exclusive premium audio content. Audacy operates one of the countrys two scaled radio broadcasting groups with leading positions across the countrys largest markets as well as one of the countrys largest podcast networks and the Audacy directtoconsumer streaming platform. Audacy is a major event producer and a digital marketing solutions provider and is the unrivaled leader in local news and sports radio. Learn more atwww.audacyincFacebookXLinkedInandInstagram.
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Audacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race color religion or religious creed sex/gender (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression national origin ancestry age (over 40 physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status military or veteran status or other classification protected by applicable federal state or local law and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose please call. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a casebycase basis.
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Chief
Employment Type
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