Video Editor

SGF Global is a global leader with over 30 years’ experience providing recruitment solutions.

Client: Manufacturing and Agricultural Industry

Salary: $27.00 per hour

1 year contract – Onsite in East Moline, IL

Job Description: Title: Video Editor

Your Responsibilities:

Elevate and differentiate the Company brand through world class storytelling. You’ll touch a gamut of subjects, creating assets and editing stories that help promote equipment, share the customer story, and enhance our rich brand legacy.

The ideal candidate will be well-experienced across a myriad of video styles and formats, from short, thumb-stopping social content to longer form editorial-style productions.

The Editor is a critical part of our larger Visual Services photo/video department. While this role’s primary function is working as a video Editor as described above, the candidate will also occasionally assist shoots in-studio and in-field (locally), running grip and operating video equipment.

Major duties:

• Editing video (70% of the time)

• Assisting video shoots, in-studio and in-field (20% of the time)

• Studio help (10% of the time)

What skills you need:

• 5-7 years video editing experience

• Excellent communication and project management skills, extremely organized with post-production workflow and file management

• Expert working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, namely Adobe Premier Pro, After Effects and Photoshop or Illustrator

• Experience with professional cinema camera equipment from manufacturers such as Sony, Canon, Panasonic, RED

• Expert working knowledge of numerous video camera file formats, codecs, transcoding and export of appropriately formatted deliverables

• Basic working knowledge of video lighting, audio and general production equipment.

• Proficient in Mac OS operating systems and Microsoft Office Suite

• Proficient in basic audio editing to achieve the best possible sound

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

• Ability to self-start and work independently as well as follow direction and edit and produce content that effectively captures the intended story or purpose

• Must submit link to portfolio/demo edit reel at time of application

What makes you stand out:

• Proven track record of executing a range of video projects — smaller promotional videos to larger commercial edits to content for social media

• Motion graphics experience / competency / 2D or 3D animation

• Experience or familiarity with heavy equipment (ability to operate is a ++)

• Experience shooting the industries we serve (ag, construction, forestry, turf, etc.)

• Experience working in a video studio and or outdoor jobsites

• Experience editing and working with large corporations or brands and high level leadership

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $27.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Video editing: 5 years (Required)
• adobe suite: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person