City of St. Louis, Missouri

Title: Video Engineer (Per Performance) Location: 4971 Oakland Ave. - St. Louis, MO Salary: $36.51 per hour Job Type: Permanent Per Performance (Part-time) Job Description Positions are paid on an hourly basis and are not eligible for the Employee Benefits Program. Incumbents in this position provide part-time specialized work for the local government access channel with an emphasis on the ability to work with a diverse group of individuals to accomplish required municipal programming objectives. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: ● Performs setup and production duties as needed. This may include camera, tape and audio equipment. ● Calibrates cameras for in-studio and remote productions. ● Maintains and repairs video equipment. ● Makes adjustments to video and audio equipment in the event of a breakdown. ● Provides technical assistance to production staff as needed. ● Determines equipment needs in accordance with programming priorities. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: ● Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships. ● Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers, production staff and supervisors, interns, other video engineers, and other city departments on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations. ● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate equipment and machinery such as a text signal generator, or waveform monitor requiring monitoring multiple conditions and making multiple, complex and rapid adjustments, such as operation, calibration, installation and repair of complex equipment and machinery. ● Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as equipment maintenance reports, purchase orders, service and installation manuals, schematic drawings, and general operating manuals. ● Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate decimals and percentages, and perform basic algebra and geometry. ● Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives. ● Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable. ● Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as heat, bright lights, and electrical currents. ● Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to regularly perform moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of lifting, pushing, and pulling moderately light to very heavy objects, fifty to one hundred pounds. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, balance, bend, and climb in order to perform wiring, installation, and transport of equipment. ● Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as operation of video and audio equipment. Requires the ability to distinguish objects clearly both at close and far-range, such as operating a video camera or using a viewfinder. Qualifications A Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; plus one year of full-time paid television engineering experience, with an emphasis on the repair, maintenance, and set-up of audio and video production equipment. OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.