Production Engineer

at  OceanX

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Production Engineer, part of the OceanX Media Pillar, will be responsible for overseeing, optimizing, and maintaining OceanX’s post-production infrastructure across our land and sea production offices in New York City, Singapore and onboard our research vessel R/V OceanXplorer. OceanX media captures a large quantity of high-quality underwater and topside media on our missions and this role will be in charge of developing and maintaining our infrastructure and workflows to effectively organize, store, backup, and access this media for all kinds of creative, documentary, new media and scientific needs. Our media pillar interacts and supports all kinds of internal and external partners, this role will manage the day-to-day needs by fulfilling media asset requests, and developing self-service options based on our asset library.
OceanX is an entrepreneurial environment which values team players who can manage priorities and workstreams simultaneously. To thrive and succeed within our unique culture and work environment, you must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas/approaches. You also must be hard working, composed and goal oriented. All employees are expected to be honest, excited about providing and receiving objective feedback, constantly striving for self-improvement, and committed to the pursuit of excellence.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professional Experience:
• 4+ years of experience in production engineering, video production, Information Technology, or in a scientific data management role
• Demonstrated project management and analytical capabilities and experience
• Familiarity with LTO tape management and workflows – OceanX’s current archive system is based on LTO tapes
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite – OceanX media produces its content using Adobe Creative Suite
• Familiarity with CatDV or similar Media Asset Management Solution – OceanX’s current media asset management solution is CatDV
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior leadership, staff, and external parties
• Proficient/Advanced MS Office Suite (excel, word, ppt), Monday.com
• Bachelor’s degree
• Personal Attributes:
• Highly independent, self-starter, quick learner
• Ability to think strategically and conceptually
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Machine-like approach to design and planning
• Determined, resourceful and practical
• Strong work ethic
• Low ego and team-player
• Maintains high standards and is results oriented
• Operates with high level of discretion and ethics
• Passion/Familiarity with marine science/exploration

• Routine maintenance/health check of OceanX’s production technology infrastructure and asset storage (at NYC production office, Singapore production office and onboard R/V OceanXplorer)
• Develop proactive solutions derived from routine maintenance on SNS EVO servers and LTO
• Develop and execute a plan to optimize OceanX’s current infrastructure, and future proof it’s needs based on overall Media and Organizational long-term goals
• Manage the ever-growing footage archive, including LTO backups and mezz file management in CatDV
• Receive, Respond and Fulfill media asset requests from internal OceanX stakeholders (Marketing, Partnerships, Education,and Science)
• Receive, Respond and Fulfill media asset requests from External stakeholders (Scientific Partners, Footage Licensing Requests)
• Develop new workflows to make media asset request more turnkey for internal requests
• Stay current and seek out new technology solutions that can optimize performance, lighten workload, and reduce costs
• Oversee, catalog and future-proof OceanX’s physical production media kit inventory
• Maintain third-party technology vendor relationships
• Oversee OceanX media software subscriptions