Broadcast and Media Systems Engineer Degree Apprenticeship - Level 6 - Wood Norton
About the role
As a Broadcast Engineering apprentice (EAS27), this is brilliant opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute – you will:
- Develop your understanding of how live content is acquired and presented to studios, recording areas, playout facilities and distribution platforms in the formats they each require. You will learn how we manipulate audio and video and grow to understand the challenges faced in servicing a large broadcasting organisation.
- Develop operational and engineering skills, learning how to use a variety of tools and systems, as well as how they work and what we do when things go wrong.
- Develop teamworking and communication skills, working as part of a varied team providing services, and talking directly to other departments across the BBC.
Working week
Full time, 35 hours per week.
Skills
Training & development
You’ll study for your industry recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off the job. This means undertaking blended learning through a series of online and face to face teaching blocks at Birmingham City University, including:
- Audio and Vision Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- IP Networks
- Computer Science
- Broadcast Technology
- Database Technology
- Engineering Mathematics
Junior Operations Engineer.
Things to consider
To be eligible for an apprenticeship at the BBC, you must:
- Be 18 years old or over by the time the apprenticeship begins in September 2027. The BBC operates a minimum age of 18 on all Apprenticeship schemes for Health and Safety and Child Protection reasons
- Have lived in the UK continuously for the last 3 years prior to the start of the apprenticeship
- Be legally eligible to work full-time in the UK for the entire duration of the apprenticeship
- Not currently be enrolled in another apprenticeship programme, whether with the BBC or another organisation
- Not already hold a qualification in the same subject area at the same or a higher level than this apprenticeship
To apply for this scheme, you must also:
- Have achieved Maths and English GCSE at Grade 4/C or above or National 5 (Scotland) at C or equivalent qualification
- Have achieved, or expected to achieve, by the start of the scheme, a minimum of 112 UCAS points (300 if before 2017)
- Have achieved A Level/Higher Maths, or an extended BTEC in Engineering with Engineering Maths, or an equivalent qualification
- Not have completed or hold qualifications in the apprenticeship subject, music technology, engineering or similar at level 6 (undergraduate degree) or higher
About BBC Public Service
We are a leading early careers employer and hire more than 250 apprentices each year. We are committed to skills and talent development both inside and outside the BBC and, as one of the world’s most creative and technologically-advanced organisations for the last 100 years, a career at the BBC means learning from the best. We want people who show potential to join us at the BBC. Don’t worry if you don’t have extensive experience, it’s your passion and values we are interested in.