Lead AV Installer/Integration Technician

About 8K Solutions

8K Solutions combined experience in sports video technology, and deep relationships with elite coaches and athletes, makes us the optimum partner for coaching video priorities. We engineer marquee coaching video technology systems based on listening to coach’s and athlete’s needs to perform at their very best. Then we deliver, install and maintain those systems for maximum team performance.

Job Summary

We’re searching for a Lead Installation Technician to perform and oversee a variety of integration tasks as assigned by the Project Manager to ensure 8K Solutions’ projects are executed accurately and within schedule.

This position ensures that Installation technicians assigned to the specific site/job have successfully performed the following to the 8K standard of quality and timeliness:

• Cables have been cut, terminated, and installed per all of the documentation provided
• Physical installation of any/all equipment as indicated in the relevant Rack System Drawings has been accomplished
• Tools and testing equipment are properly maintained
• Workspace is always kept and left clean and organized every day on the site
• Sets example for a team environment at all times, ensuring collaboration and communication are a priority

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee physical installation of a variety of video camera technology into customer locations, mostly sports stadiums and practice fields/coaches’ rooms
• Ensure that assigned technicians have accurately cut cables for bench fabrication to assigned lengths; and ensure that sorting, flagging and cutting of cables is done for rack lacing and/or is shipped to project sites as directed by project plans
• Ensure for 8K install team that there are prepared and labeled cables for fabrication
• Supervise that test cable terminations for all Broadcast, Network and A/V connectors have been executed
• Ability to read and understand cable wire lists as well as project drawings and documentation for cable fabrication so that installation by 8K is supervised with confidence
• Be able to guarantee that preparation of equipment racks for staging of equipment, wire lacing including installation of power strips, grounding bars, jack-fields, etc. has been accomplished.
• Quality check that mounting of equipment into racks, terminate all wiring and connections to equipment as per the technical drawings has been accomplished
• Inspect building and wire custom panels from engineering drawings that have been installed by 8K Solutions
• Supervise the fiber optic cable handling, installation termination and testing
• Provide feedback for efficiencies as encountered during fabrication
• Maintain an organized work environment
• Responsible for maintaining tools and test equipment, including inventory
• Maintain daily record of time worked on specific projects for all technicians assigned, report into Raken software all project status check points
• May be required to train new Installation Technicians

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in completing day-to-day integration tasks for live events, broadcasting or related field/industry
• Ability to manage a fluctuating workload in a deadline driven environment
• Ability to use active listening skills and communicate potential issues to management
• Safety-minded; ability to follow safety rules, regulations, and procedures and make safety an important component of all shop operations
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Provide a consistent level of technical performance and oversight
• Ability to effectively respond to a very flexibility work schedule
• Periodic heavy and seasonal overtime

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years of industry related integration experience is required
• Demonstrated understanding of engineering and design project execution
• Proficiency with various broadcast systems and equipment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Microsoft Office and MS Project Software Proficiency
• CTS Certs are a plus

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS May Include:

• Ability to use one or two hands to grasp, move, or assemble objects
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Must be able to walk or stand up to 8 hours at a time
• Ability to bend, squat, kneel on both knees, and climb stairs frequently
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. frequently
• Ability to carry 50 lbs. a distance of 50 feet occasionally
• Ability to pinch (10 lbs.) and grip (50 lbs.) related broadcast equipment
• Ability to horizontally transfer 40 lbs.
• Ability to ascend and descend ladders