Archive Support Engineer

We are looking for an Archive Support Engineer to join the BFI’s Collections Operations team.  The Archive Support Engineer will provide practical engineering and technical support to the BFI National Archive assisting in the maintenance of a diverse range of current and legacy Film and audio-visual equipment.   

Key responsibilities include: 

• Servicing and repairing the diverse range of analogue and digital technologies necessary to support the BFI National Archive’s audio-visual collections.
• Ensuring that suitable equipment and associated systems are available and serviceable to meet the BFI National Archive's objectives. 
• Ensure that all operational equipment is regularly tested regarding health & safety and care of the collections. 
• Maintaining inventories for audio visual equipment, ensuring rationalised stocks of spare parts and machines, with regularly updated documentation for both status and location of individual items.  

We are looking for candidates who have: 

• Experience working at a practical level to maintain complex electronic and electro-mechanical equipment and associated systems.
• Strong technical aptitude, possessing skills and knowledge for diagnosing faults and repairing/aligning legacy technologies and equipment at component level.
• In depth knowledge of current and legacy video, audio, digital, television and film systems, spanning all historic technologies.
• A good understanding of the issues relating to the sustainability of legacy audio-visual technologies and the challenges associated with hybrid analogue/digital delivery. 

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.  

About the BFI   

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.  

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.   

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.   

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by clicking on the 'Apply' button above.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Monday 2^nd September 2024  

First interviews will be held on Friday 13^th September 2024 

Second interviews will be held on Friday 20^th September 2024 

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