Digital Cinema Production Engineer

Responsibilities

• The Digital Cinema Production Engineer is responsible for the engineering, maintenance and ongoing improvement of MPS’s cinema postproduction environments.
• Maintain and uphold reference-grade vision and sound standards across all cinema review rooms, ensuring consistency, accuracy and reliability.
• Install, configure and commission postproduction and review room technology, including projection systems, monitoring, audio systems and associated infrastructure.
• Perform colour calibration of cinema projectors and broadcast-grade video monitors to industry standards.
• Carry out multi-channel audio calibration for cinema and review environments, ensuring accurate monitoring and compliance with required specifications.
• Design, manage and fault-find SDI-based video routing systems and AES-based audio monitoring paths.
• Support and validate mastering software platforms used across the facility, including Clipster, Transkoder and DaVinci Resolve.
• Install, configure and support broadcast-level equipment, diagnosing and resolving complex hardware and signal-path issues.
• Support TCP/IP-based systems within postproduction environments, including basic network fault finding and integration with audio-over-IP technologies.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of documentation, standards and engineering procedures.
• Work collaboratively with postproduction, operations and technical teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure production environment.
• Assist in evaluating new technologies, tools and workflows to support future technical and operational requirements.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience (desirable).
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working within a high-end or elite postproduction, broadcast, or cinema technology environment.
• Proven experience calibrating cinema projectors and broadcast reference monitors.
• Proven experience calibrating multi-channel audio playback systems.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring and fault-finding broadcast or cinema-grade equipment.
• Working knowledge of electrical safety within technical environments.
• Experience with mastering and postproduction software such as Clipster, Transkoder, and/or DaVinci Resolve (desirable).
• Familiarity with audio mastering workflows using Avid Pro Tools (audio-focused, not Media Composer) (desirable).
• Exposure to Adobe Creative Cloud applications within a postproduction context (desirable).

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