Description
Join the BBC as a Broadcast Engineering apprentice and kick-start your career in a job you'll love. You'll learn on-the-job, developing your knowledge and skills in an area that interests you, whilst working towards your apprenticeship qualification with one of our learning providers.
As a Broadcast Engineering apprentice, you'll be part of the next generation of media systems engineers helping the BBC to deliver content for TV, radio, online and other digital services. You'll work on unique challenges, hand in hand with the best creative minds in the UK.
Your key responsibilities and impact:
- 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.
- 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.
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
We're interested in your passion for working at the BBC and your enthusiasm for delivering world-class content and operational excellence to our audiences. We're not focused on your qualifications; instead, we look for potential and offer you the opportunity to apply your transferable strengths and experience to work in different ways.
Eligibility criteria:
- Be 18 years old or over by the time the apprenticeship begins in September 2027
- 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.
Benefits:
- Excellent career and professional development
- Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave, a range of policies to support your work/life balance, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym
- Industry recognised qualification
- Industry-leading training through the BBC Academy and our learning providers
- A dedicated Team Manager and Scheme Specialist to help with your development
- Training and Mentoring by industry professionals
- A bespoke BBC apprenticeship experience including apprenticeship development days and membership of the BBC Apprenticeship community
- Employability and networking training and support to help you secure your next role