Role: Techincal Assistant
Contract: Casual
Type: Onsite
Location: Kings Cross, London
The Technical Assistant plays a key role within the Audio/Post team. As a Technical Assistant you will need to ensure that technical and administrative tasks are completed in a timely manner to support the technical delivery of the specific piece of work or project. You will support the post service helping to ensure the timely completion of agreed deliverables and milestones are met.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
- Provide audio support when needed on both audio and video projects in and out of studio. You will act as a junior audio engineer on some occasions.
- Perform audio editing of dialogue WAV files to a high specification.
- Ensure quality assurance and delivery of edited dialogue WAV files using in-house tools.
- Organise, log, and distribute batches to editors and collect them once edited
- Prepare scripts and where suitable conduct the QA process on the edited batches
- QA and Prepare edited batches for delivery to clients, and when suitable deliver them
- Assist the Post-Production Team with their day-to-day tasks wherever possible
- Collaborate and work seamlessly with the whole of the audio team.
- Report any issues that might impact progress or quality.
- Troubleshoot technical issues as required or report any to line managers.
- Keep the audio assets and logging of equipment up to date.
- Proficient in the following software and tools: including WAV file editors (Preferably Audition, Pro Tools and/or Izotope RX), Pro Tools and MS Excel
- Strong interest in audio technology.
- Good ability in troubleshooting technical and IT issues.
- Able to adapt and learn new skills and software.
- Strong time management and organisational skills.
- Self-driven, resourceful and a team player who can work well with all levels.
Multi award winning games dialogue specialist SIDE is a fast-paced and creative environment working with one of the video game industry’s most successful and well-respected audio production companies.
With over 20 years’ experience, an international network of resources, SIDE’s award-winning team of technical and creative experts still hold the same collective intention: To develop the truest interpretation of each client’s vision - for audiences of every genre, on any platform, in all languages.
SIDE are also very active in the technology & digital media industries, working with a multitude of innovative clients from around the world that develop devices which are present in consumers everyday lives.
Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a global team of passionate, hard-working, ambitious gamers, whose goal is always to make every gamer's experience as perfect as possible. We’re dedicated to helping your players, because they’re part of our community too. We’ve been working hard for players, clients, and the games industry for over 26 years, providing industry-leading services to every part of the globe.
We believe great work gets done by teams who love what they do. This is why we approach every solution with an all-minds-on-deck strategy that leverages our global workforce's strength, creativity, and passion.
8,500+ passionate gamers
650+ top developers and publishers as clients
5.3 million hours QA testing
7 year average client partner tenure
2,500+ LQA titles
PTW is a boutique games services company with 40 offices in 11 countries worldwide. Our range of services include quality assurance, localization, customer experience, art production, game development services, and audio production services.
We believe that innovation comes in all sizes, which is why we take on projects of any size and love crafting a custom solution, no matter the scale.
PTW, comprised of global subsidiaries, is a UK-based holding company formed in 2016 under the umbrella of Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, Inc. which is listed on the 1st Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange as 3657.
The PTW group includes SIDE, 1518 Studios, Entalize, The Game Dev Show, and OR Esports.
