Salary: $57,642 - $86,450
Position Grade: 212T
Department: Communications Division
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1705
Location: 4971 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO
A Video/IT Engineer bridges the gap between traditional AV production and IT networking, designing, installing, and maintaining video systems, streaming infrastructure, and digital hardware. They manage live video feeds, troubleshoot encoding/transcoding issues, and ensure low-latency media transmission, often requiring expertise in IP networking, codecs, and video protocols.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- System Design and Maintenance: Installing and maintaining video production equipment (cameras, switchers, routers, encoders) in studios or on-location ensuring optimal operation.
- Live Production and Streaming: Operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting live broadcast signals and streaming platforms (e.g., WebRTC, HLS, DASH).
- T/Network Integration: Configuring and maintaining video systems connected to the network, including VLANs, IP streaming, and IT security standards.
- Technical Support: Troubleshoot complex video and audio issues under pressure during live events or in post-production environments. Repairing video/audio equipment that requires minor repairs.
- Encoding and Storage: Managing video compression, recording, and ensuring proper storage and quality standards are met.
- Oversee the set-up of audio/video production equipment prior to a production. Calibrates cameras for in studio and remote productions.
- Maintains and repairs video equipment. Ability to make adjustments to video and audio equipment in the event of a breakdown.
- Provide technical assistance to production staff as needed. Emphasis on ability to work with a diverse group of individuals to accomplish required local government programming objectives.
- Zoom meeting management: Oversee the operations and assist departments in setting up meetings according to specific guidelines and procedures provided by the Video Engineer.
- Other duties as needed include, but are not limited to operating audio and video production equipment during productions or editing.
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 objective.
- 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.
A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Audio/Visual Production; plus one year of 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.
Qualifying experience must include:
- Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of audio/visual production equipment, live switching, cameras, and display systems.
- IT/Networking Knowledge: Understanding of video over IP, network protocols, and troubleshooting network-related issues.
- Software Familiarity: Experience with tools like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, ProPresenter, or specialized media software.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
