# Broadcast Technical Operator Apprentice

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Tunbridge Wells
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £24,650
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Tunbridge-Wells-Broadcast-and-Media-Systems-Technical-Operator-Apprenticeship-Level-3-Tunbridge-Wells-TN1-1QQ/1376064057/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Join the BBC as a Broadcast Technical Operator apprentice, a fixed-term apprenticeship for 25 months, with a salary of £24,650.

As a Broadcast Technical Operator apprentice, you will gain practical experience across all aspects of live and recorded broadcasting, including camera operations on location, studio-based technical roles, directing, lighting, editing, and graphic design for regional and national BBC programmes.

You will contribute to the delivery of high-quality content for BBC shows, using advanced broadcast technologies such as satellite trucks and IP systems for outside broadcasts.

You will develop a strong understanding of how technical production, editorial decisions, and audience engagement work together to shape compelling content across TV, digital, and online platforms.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Gaining practical experience in live and recorded broadcasting

- Contributing to high-quality content delivery

- Developing understanding of technical production and audience engagement

You will study for your industry-recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off the job with the National Film and Television School.

The apprenticeship will cover a wide variety of skills across both TV and Radio, including:

- Camera Operations

- Floor Management

- TV Vision Mixing

- Sound Operations

- Technical Directing

- Shoot and Edit Multi-Skilled Operator

- Picture and Audio Editing

- Ingest and Library functions

Benefits include:

- Industry-recognised qualification

- Excellent career and professional development

- Competitive salary package

- 35-hour working week

- 25 days annual leave

- Defined pension scheme

- Discounted dental, health care, and gym

Eligibility criteria:

- Be 18 years old or over by September 2027

- Have lived in the UK continuously for the last three 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

- Not already hold a qualification in the same subject area at the same or a higher level than this apprenticeship

## Skills

### Required
- broadcasting
- technical production
- camera operations
- editing
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- media content
- organisational skills
- self-starter
- flexible
- adaptable

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