Broadcast and Media Systems Engineer Degree Apprenticeship - Level 6 - Salford

Join the BBC as an apprentice to kick-start your career in a job you'll love. The BBC is committed to your skills and talent development. You’ll learn on-the-job, developing your knowledge and skills whilst working towards your apprenticeship qualification.

Why Join This Scheme?

Engineering at the BBC develops, supports, and maintains the systems and infrastructure that keep the BBC on air. This is a fantastic opportunity to 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 be working on unique challenges, hand-in-hand with the best creative minds in the UK.

You will learn about technologies and systems for TV, radio, and digital channels, and how they produce high-quality content that’s distributed around the world. You will also learn the industry standards for the set-up of broadcast communication systems, media content systems, and IP networks.

Develop the specialised skills to design, build, and maintain the media production and broadcasting technologies and systems that will take the BBC into the future.

Why Join the Team?

Depending on your location, you will work on the front line, supporting TV and Radio Production networks, systems, and devices that are behind flagship services. The teams are also responsible for master control rooms and telecommunication network systems. You will be trained and developed to support TV & Radio studios and infrastructure, and master control rooms.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

As a Broadcast Engineering apprentice, 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 audio and video are manipulated 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 to 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

Your Skills and Eligibility

We’re interested in your passion for working at the BBC and your enthusiasm for delivering world-class content and operational excellence. 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.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you:

• Fascination with how things work
• Love solving technical problems
• Passion for media technology
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and demands on your time
• Calm and focused approach to changing circumstances
• Enthusiastic self-starter, flexible and adaptable to out-of-hours working

Eligibility Criteria

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.
• 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.
• 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 be 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.

Ready to Apply?

Click ‘Apply Now’! You’ll create a candidate profile and answer a few questions – no CV or cover letter needed. If you're eligible, you’ll be guided through the next steps. You’ll need to live within a commutable distance of Salford.

Relocation financial support is available for this role, subject to meeting the financial eligibility criteria.

This is a fixed-term apprenticeship for 36 months. Once completed, you will be able to apply for suitable open vacancies at the BBC or in the wider creative industry. You’ll be supported with career development, employability training, and networking opportunities.

Disabled applicants who choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the minimum criteria will normally be progressed to the next stage of the recruitment process.