Role Overview

Premier League Studios are looking for two Broadcast Engineering Supervisors to lead a high performing first line broadcast engineering team at their new production facility in West London. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who are passionate about delivering critical broadcast and content services in a high value, fast-paced and automation led environment.

The Broadcast engineering supervisors will manage a team of people and be responsible for the real time management, support and administration of complex data led and automation driven video and audio infrastructure including studios, live galleries, operations centre, post-production and MAM facilities.

Reporting to the Head of Systems & Engineering, they will be responsible for ensuring the continuous uptime of critical high value content services, servicing and maintaining infrastructure in line with manufacturers guidelines and good practice as well planning and delivering technology projects and upgrades.

Calm under pressure and with excellent communication skills they will manage priorities and incidents, key stakeholders, third party vendors and their teams.

The Broadcast Engineering Supervisors will work closely with wider Premier League Studios technology colleagues and when necessary, engage with colleagues across the wider PL business ecosystem.

Who we are

The Premier League is home to some of the most competitive and compelling football in the world. The League and its Clubs use the power and popularity of the competition to inspire fans, communities and partners in the UK and across the world. The Premier League brings people together from all backgrounds. It is a competition for everyone, everywhere and is available to watch in over 900 million homes in 189 countries.

In November 2024, the Premier League announced it was establishing a new in-house media operations business launching at the start of the 2026/27 Premier League Season. Premier League Studios will be responsible for all international media content production and distribution, providing a best-in-class content service to the Premier League’s partners and millions of passionate fans around the world.

The Premier League is an equal opportunities employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish. We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly encourage applications from women, people from minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people.

You will be expected to attend the office or site visits in line with our company policy. All staff liaise closely with their line manager to manage their time appropriately and according to their work and team requirements.

The role

Duties include but are not limited to:

Manage, lead, develop and inspire the first line Broadcast Engineering Team
Be the lead technical authority and escalation / incident manager on Premier League match days
Work with IT colleagues to monitor and optimize live and file media networks, addressing issues related to multicast, Quality of Service (QoS), and redundancy protocols
Work closely with operations colleagues and third-party suppliers to manage and maintain service and respond to incidents.
Responsible for on-premise and SAAS Broadcast infrastructure, systems, and services.
Have excellent ST-2110 and NMOS knowledge and experience
Deep understanding of live and post-production broadcast workflows
Developing complex UItra-HD and HDR workflows
Ensure business and industry best practices are followed
Maintain and develop disaster recovery plans
Ensure all planned and remedial works are managed in the ITSM ticket system
Plan and implement upgrades and patches
Lead projects including design, document, implementation and test
Support production colleagues working onsite and remotely
Provide technical leadership in response to service impacting issues
Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry standards and practices to recommend and implement improvements to existing system
Technical authority for change management
Maintain comprehensive documentation of system configurations, network diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate broadcast equipment into IP-based workflows
Manage suppliers against SLA’s and contracts
Monitor and report service availability

Requirements for the role

Proven experience working in a similar broadcast or production management role
Team management, development and coaching experience
Experience with Ultra HD & HDR standards and working practices
Familiarity with cloud-based broadcast solutions and virtualisation technologies
Ability to manage, lead, and prioritise tasks in a high-pressure environment
Project management and stakeholder management experience
Experience managing budgets, hardware lifecycles and maintenance schedules
Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to translate technical language to non-technical people
Experience implementing Broadcast infrastructure upgrades and refreshes
Experience using an ITSM or ticketing system to track and resolve issues
Hands on and remote technical troubleshooting skills
Must be able to demonstrate experience and skills in the following core technologies:
- ST-2110 & NMOS networks deployed on Arista fabric & EVS endpoints
- Ross Ultrix Platform & Carbonite switchers
- Skyline Dataminer
- EVS Cerebrum
- Viz Mosart
- TAG Multiviewers
- EVS XT Servers

Would be useful to demonstrate experience and skills in some of the following technologies:
- Fonn Saga
- Fonn Mimir
- Qvest Quib
- Calrec Audio Consoles
- Riedel Artist Communication systems
- Xytech scheduling system

Our commitment to safeguarding includes implementing robust safer recruitment procedures to assess the suitability of individuals applying for roles that involve work with children and adults who are or may be at risk of harm. For further information, please see our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Guidance.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact recruitment@premierleague.com