Technical Manager, Deliveries - Toronto, Canada - Reel One Entertainment

Reel One Entertainment

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Champlain Media, a company associated with Reel One Entertainment, a company held by Newen and A&E, is a dynamic international television production and distribution company with offices in Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto.

Champlain Media is a dynamic international television production and distribution company with offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Champlain Media leads the way in the development, financing, production, and distribution of high-quality TV programming, being one of the largest suppliers in the niche of highly commercial TV movies.

Please visit our web site for more information.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced
Technical Manager, Deliveries** to join our Ingest and Deliveries team. The Technical Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all incoming and outgoing data follows proper workflows and naming conventions; managing our archiving and backup system; and being the main technical expert for the department's internal and external stakeholders

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Workflow specialist: ensuring the distribution pipeline has a consistent and proper technical workflow; creating and maintaining tracking databases
Archive and Back Up; ensuring that all unique data is archived and backed up according to protocols; maintaining software and hardware tools
Ensure that all transfer protocols are working efficiently and optimized including Aspera and Signiant
Ensuring that all deliveries' workflows are created to the technical specifications of each broadcaster
Liaising with Licensing about technical specs in deliveries agreements
Do any edits, graphic replacements and trouble shoot any corrupt issues with existing films
Main contact with IT about Deliveries hardware and software
Responsible for ensuring all equipment is current and in good working order
Main contact for hardware and software vendors
All equipment and vendor invoices go through the Technical Manager
Main Liaison and scheduler of Quality Control (QC), automated QC and QC vendors
Reviewing QC reports
Technically assessing all films for technical acceptance
Main contact for technical expertise regarding camera equipment for producers, technical workflows, equipment, and software

REQUIREMENTS:

Strong technical background and experience in the tv or film industry
Bachelor's degree in film production, IT, or related field
Minimum of 5 years of experience in film/tv distribution, dubbing and/or Ingest and Delivery management
Proven experience in workflow management, archiving, and/or ingest and deliveries
Workflowminded, always looking for efficiencies
Knowledge of industry standard tools
Strong organizational and communication skills
Experience with Quality Control and troubleshooting
Computer Science background a bonus