Assistant Chief Engineer - Salt Lake City - Sinclair Broadcast Group

    Sinclair Broadcast Group
    Sinclair Broadcast Group Salt Lake City

    6 days ago

    Description

    Support the Director of Engineering in the operation, reliability, and strategic advancement of all technical systems for a Top-30 market, corporate-owned broadcast television station.


    Be one of the first applicants, read the complete overview of the role below, then send your application for consideration.


    This role is enterprise and IT-first, with significant responsibility for cloud-based master control operations, IP networking, and virtualized broadcast workflows, while also supporting on-premises studio, production, and transmission infrastructure.

    Key Responsibilities Support day-to-day operation and long-term reliability of all station technical systems.

    Ensure continuous on-air service across linear, streaming, and digital platforms.

    Participate in planning, deployment, testing, and lifecycle management of systems.

    Support cloud-hosted master control, playout, monitoring, and distribution workflows.

    Maintain and troubleshoot IP-centric broadcast and enterprise IT systems.

    Ensure resiliency, redundancy, monitoring, and disaster recovery readiness.

    Serve as a senior escalation point for technical incidents.

    Lead structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

    Document incidents and corrective actions per corporate standards.

    Identify opportunities to improve reliability, security, and efficiency.

    Provide technical leadership and mentorship.

    Communicate risks, incidents, and resolutions clearly.

    Develop SOPs, system documentation, and diagrams.

    Coordinate with vendors and system integrators.

    Support compliance with FCC regulations and corporate policies.

    Maintain technical logs and compliance documentation.

    Support EAS systems and emergency preparedness.

    Promote safe work practices.

    Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.

    4-5 years of broadcast or enterprise media engineering experience.

    Strong knowledge of IP networking, servers, storage, and virtualization.

    Experience with cloud-based or hybrid broadcast workflows.

    Ability to work in studios, equipment rooms and transmitter facilities.

    Strong communication skills and ability to work in a matrixed organization.

    Prefer top-50 market, corporate broadcast experience.

    Prefer experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP media workflows.

    Prefer knowledge of cybersecurity best practices.

    AutoCAD experience.

    Hold a valid driver's license Must be flexible to accommodate shift changes including extended hours, weekends and evenings.


    Ability to work within an on-call rotation schedule Ability to work on ladders, stand for long periods of time, lift computers or equipment up to 50 pounds.

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    EEO AND INCLUSIVITY:
    Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace.


    Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.


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