TV Post Production Audio Engineer

TV Post Production Audio Engineer (English Services)

Status of Employment: Permanent

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Function

Performs tasks as a specialist in the audio recording and mixing craft, making artistic contributions to programming by consistently producing unique and innovative aural results. Using sophisticated techniques and applying professional experience and creative flair, produces an artistically superior program, program segment or recording. Imprints a personal unique style adding value to the final product. Work is generally performed according to accepted CBC or industry standards but there is wide latitude for independent action, judgment and initiative. Duties are performed with minimal direction from program personnel. There are usually requirements to be self-administered with the expectation of producing desired results within deadlines.

Key Tasks:

• Develops plans to produce aural results consistent with the creative and technical objectives of complex music and drama performance for television programs or other types of visual productions.
• Determines technical and operational requirements to meet those objectives.
• Consults with others involved in the program project to ensure optimum aural results, including creative and technical quality, throughout the production processes. Attends interlock, mixing and laydown/layback sessions.
• Records, edits and mixes complex music and dramatic material including dialogue editing, sound effects and foley.
• Advises on, or performs, the M&E (Music and Effects) mixes for domestic or international sales.
• Develops, creates and uses audio effects.
• Uses new technologies and developments to devise and implement innovative methods.
• Provides operational guidance and consultation to maintenance and engineering personnel to ensure that systems and devices function at a superior level technically, ergonomically and creatively.
• Performs all or part of the function or duties of an equivalent or lower classification.

Education and Experience Required:

• Requires a superior level of technical knowledge and understanding of audio production methods. Knowledge generally gained through community college graduation in recording, broadcasting and electronics, or equivalent industry experience.
• Five years related experience.
• Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

Background Check:

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes: A mandatory Criminal record check. Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

Diversity and Inclusion:

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Key skills/competency

• Audio Engineering
• Post-Production
• Sound Mixing
• Dialogue Editing
• Sound Effects
• Foley
• Music Mixing
• Broadcast
• Television Production
• Audio Technology