MEDIA TECHNICIAN 2
Career Family: MEDIA TECHNICIAN
Media Technician 2 is a competitive state title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
On the Media Technician ladder it falls between Media Technician 1 and Media Technician 3. What it takes is 2 years of relevant experience. Pay on the FY2026 schedule runs $56,253 to $81,897.
How to get hired
- Watch for an open-competitive announcement for Media Technician 2 on the NJ Civil Service Commission jobs portal. Announcements run for a fixed filing window.
- Apply during that window and sit the examination. Depending on the title, that can be a written test, a rating of your training and experience, or a mix of the two.
- Passing scores go onto a ranked eligible list. Veterans get preference points added on top of their score.
- When an agency has a vacancy it must appoint from the top of that list under the "Rule of Three." Many competitive jobs are first filled provisionally while the list is being built.
Read the official specification at NJ Civil Service Commission.
Pay ladder: Media Technician series
- Media Technician 1 — $49,266 – $71,403
- Media Technician 2 — $56,253 – $81,897 (this title)
- Media Technician 3 — $64,340 – $94,062
Promoting to Media Technician 3 raises the top of the band by about $12,165. Its top salary lands around the 22nd percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.
Rungs are ordered by FY2026 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator.
Definition
Under the limited supervision of a supervisory official in a State department, college, institution, or agency, performs media usage consultation, information retrieval, production of graphic material, operation, maintenance of audio visual equipment, and control and distribution of expendable commercial art and audio-visual materials; does other related duties as required.
Examples of work
- Provides training in a variety of media skills that may include dry and wet mounting, transparency production, audio and video taping, and equipment operation.
- Conducts various dark room activities as assigned by supervisory personnel or others.
- Conducts sophisticated audio production involving multiple audio sources, mixers, audio equipment to pulse inaudible and audible magnetic tape, and other commensurate equipment.
- As required, performs functions involving the termination process, airbrush process, dial access programming, and other more sophisticated media processes.
- As assigned, may prepare rough drafts of public relation releases with accompanying picture.
- Provides training in the intricacies of various film cleaning equipment, and in preventive maintenance of all types of media equipment.
- Trouble shoots production processes such as problems involving transparencies, audiotaping, and mixing.
- Participates in field video recordings; determines need for additional lighting, legality of recording, personnel and program, and appropriate equipment.
- Maintains essential records and files.
- Prepares clear, accurate, and informative reports.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Education
One (1) year of formal training at a vocational or technical school, or college in audio-visual production, graphics, and photography, and/or electronic theory, practice, and equipment.
Experience
Two (2) years of experience in media production, equipment, and photographic or media software.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of media hardware and software.
- Knowledge of audio devices and programming.
- Knowledge of television production including camera operation, sound techniques, and lighting techniques.
- Knowledge of the termination, air brush processes, dial access programming and other more sophisticated processes.
- Ability to perform preventive maintenance of media equipment.
- Ability to troubleshoot in the various production processes.
- Ability to operate television studio and recording equipment.
- Ability to organize subject matter in a sequence.
- Ability to assist in field video recording.
- Ability to instruct and assist others in the various processes used, such as dry and wet mounting, transparency production, audio and video taping and equipment operation.
- Ability to perform sophisticated audio production.
- Ability to prepare written and related graphic material.
- Ability to provide training in preventive maintenance on media equipment.
- Ability to maintain essential records and files.
- Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and informative reports.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
Applicants who do not possess the required education may substitute experience as indicated above on a year-for-year basis.