Field Service Engineer responsible for installing, maintaining, and upgrading advanced manufacturing equipment in Ireland. Collaborating with customers and utilizing digital tools for troubleshooting.
About the role
- Director of Global Field Engineering overseeing teams for live sports and news broadcasts at Warner Bros. Discovery. Responsibilities include team management, event coordination, and resource optimization.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for leadership, hiring, training and oversight for ~12 team members across EMEA.
- Managing a team of over 12 staff in the Global Field Engineering Team, responsible for providing 24/7 broadcast and IT services to support live sports and news broadcasts at any business-determined location.
- Leading the evolution of team capabilities, including recruitment, onboarding, and delegation of responsibilities, to adapt to changing workloads and technological complexities.
- Mentoring and developing team members, providing training and development opportunities to enhance performance.
- Conducting regular performance reviews, offering constructive feedback and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Actively engage Eurosport leaders and TNT Sport technical operations teams in planning and staffing event requirements, as well as to strengthen partnerships.
- Assisting the VP with setting out the strategy and department goals, ensuring they accurately reflect the overall strategy and priorities of key stakeholders at any point in time.
- Managing budget and staffing requirements, effectively managing fluctuations in resources and technology requirements.
- Working closely with the leadership of News & Sports Planning and peers to develop deployment assignments for the International Field Engineering, improve processes, and enhance resource efficiency.
- Establishing regular communication with the regional business and cross T&O departments with a focus on service, supporting their needs and requirements.
- Exploring and implementing new field technology and best practices to optimise remote executions in line with WBD global strategies.
- Overseeing MFP (REMI) kits adoption and workflow changes, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing field operations.
- Leading workstreams, working closely with News and Sports Production, and LPP Engineering teams to ensure cohesive scheduling technology strategies.
- Frequent travel to sports events to evaluate onsite live productions, consult with onsite customers, and help identify execution efficiencies.
- Ensuring the Global FE teams successfully and timely deliver field production technology executions to meet live broadcast deadlines.
- Ensuring field gear readiness with an emphasis on upcoming key field production needs.
- Working with the Sports & News teams to align scheduling resource availability with commercial objectives and maximise revenue opportunities.
- Overseeing highly visible event productions of live broadcasts in cooperation with Sport & News programming teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a senior events execution and field technology teams’ management role within a News and Sports media organisation.
- Extensive experience in live and sport field technology deployments and implementations.
- Strong leadership and team management skills demonstrating the ability to motivate, develop and inspire a team.
- Proven track record in directing successful teams, delivering to the highest standards.
- Adept at working collaboratively with other service delivery internal departments.
- Proactive in troubleshooting, problem-solving and avoidance of issues.
- Adaptable and flexible in a challenging, demanding, and fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to represent the department globally.
- Experience of budget and expense management.
Benefits
- Career defining opportunities
- Thoughtfully curated benefits
- Tools to explore and grow
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