Engineering Manager

Job Summary:

Wisconsin Public Radio (www.wpr.org), is seeking a full-time Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering team. The Engineering Manager will play a key role in managing the people, processes, and technologies that support our mission of delivering high-quality content to our audiences in Wisconsin and beyond.

This role will oversee the team that builds, manages, and supports all of the interconnected technical systems that enable WPR staff to record, edit, and distribute their broadcast and digital audio content to listeners. This includes physical spaces like the studios located around the state and the virtual technologies that connect everything. The expectation is that this is a working manager position but that the engineers will be the primary technical experts.

As Wisconsin Public Radio's Engineering Manager, here are some of the expectations:

- Provide technical management and oversight of systems that deliver WPR's content to statewide audiences.
- Lead and manage critical engineering projects with internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Educational Communications Board (ECB) to maintain and upgrade licensed transmitters and translators, ensuring efficient 24/7 operation.
- Manage engineering contracts and tower leases, ensuring compliance.
- Develop technical strategies and recommendations in alignment with the organization's strategic goals for executive leadership, the board, and other stakeholders.
- Evaluate technical needs for WPR studios located across the state.
- Work flexible hours, including weekends and after-hours.

Our ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, technical knowledge paired with technical experience, and a passion for learning new technologies. They will be goal-and detail-oriented, organized, analytical, and embrace working collaboratively with a variety of staff. Success in this role depends as much on interpersonal, communication, and project management skills as technical knowledge.

We are committed to equitable, unbiased hiring processes, flexible work environments, and ongoing, open conversations and reviews of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our content and workplace. This role will report to the Director of IT. This position will primarily be on-site, but there is workplace flexibility for some remote work opportunities.

Responsibilities:

Provides and develops operational oversight of information technology (IT) function(s), program(s), or service(s) to support organizational and employee technology needs.

• 30% Develops, plans, and directs staff implementation of information technology
• 10% Evaluates existing strategy and makes recommendations to information technology leadership for program enhancement
• 10% Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised information technology operational policies and procedures
• 10% Serves as the subject matter expert to unit leadership regarding information technology operations and functions
• 20% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 10% Creates and monitors the budget and approves expenditures
• 10% Troubleshoots and resolves requests and issues for supported services, systems, networks, and applications

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, and Network Administration or related field is preferred.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated significant progression in a series of technical roles.
- Demonstrated success managing complex technical projects and work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring timely and efficient completion.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, specifically with experience communicating complex technical information to a wide variety of audiences.
- Experience tracking expenditures and large capital purchases.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated experience with project management and prioritization.
- Knowledge of IT Service Management (e.g., ITIL) frameworks.
- Knowledge of modern application architectures and technologies (e.g., cloud infrastructure, virtualization, APIs, SQL, scripting languages, etc.).
- Knowledge and experience with public media, non-profit, government, or higher education organizations.

We recognize that qualified applicants come from various backgrounds, life experiences, and levels of educational access. We encourage you to apply even if you don't match all of the preferred qualifications listed above.

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position is a hybrid position and will require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location. Final schedule can be discussed in the offer stage, but fully remote candidates will not be accepted.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $90,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
We expect to pay between 90k and 100k, actual pay will be determined based on experience.

Additional Information:

PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio are part of Wisconsin Public Media. The person in this position will be required to comply with the Wisconsin Public Media Code of Ethics: https://wpm.wisc.edu/policies/, in addition to the UW-Madison code of ethics.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the
United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

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How to Apply:

The following must be received for your application to be complete:
1) Resume
2) A cover letter describing how your experience relates to the listed required and preferred job qualifications.

Finalists will be asked to provide a list of at least three professional references with titles, emails, and phone numbers (including at least one supervisory reference). Note that references will not be contacted without your prior knowledge.

Contact:

Mariah Stuckey
mariah.stuckey@wisc.edu
608-890-2272
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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Official Title:

IT Manager (C)(IT127)

Department(s):

A46-PUBLIC MEDIA/WPR

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

305855-AS

 

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