Project Manager

Project ManagerAt Brite Ideas, Project Managers play a critical role in the planning, development, and execution of our clients' events. This position is responsible for taking ownership and advancing assigned projects. You will plan project timelines, interface with Technical Design to ascertain technical creative requirements, develop and manage budgets, schedule equipment resources, and manage pre-production, on-site production, and post-production reconciliations. You will be responsible for scheduling, managing, and/or participating in client stakeholder meetings, and managing other assigned needs of the project. You will also be responsible for keeping projects on time, on-scope, and on budget. You are both a manager and an individual contributor working well within a collaborative team culture, with excellent time management and organizational skills, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, ever-changing project-driven environment where work is often delivered evenings, weekends, and holidays.· Manage all aspects of assigned projects from inquiry through execution to reconciliation.· Through your leadership, develop and manage your show team to execute flawless shows for our clients.· Management and overall supervision of union and local stage hand crews complete project objectives and meet deadlines.· Deliver an exceptional customer experience on-schedule and on-budget.· Assist sales with any pre-sales support with resources, capabilities, and budgets.· Interface with Technical Design to determine all technical requirements including lighting, video – LED, projection and virtual - audio, rigging, and other ancillary production items.· Provide support for clients' needs, budgets, and timelines along with creating and maintaining external and internal production workbooks.· Creating accurate and timely client proposals within our inventory system.· Collaborate with Operations and Central Services to coordinate transportation, sub-rentals, travel, and labor needs.· On-site production includes client facing communication, completing crewing sheets while adhering to schedules, collaborating with Technical Design team, confirming event/room layout, and executing leading the rehearsal.· Budget and track project expenditures to ensure projects meet profit targets and within the scope of work.· Hands-on approach—able to patch cables, focus lights, or crew load-in when schedules require.· Ability to manage and balance multiple projects, live, hybrid, and virtual simultaneously.· Utilize our Project Manager/Technical Designer Workflow to facilitate the Brite Ideas' experience.· Draft, publish, and update detailed Run-of-Show (ROS), production schedules, and cue sheets.· Maintain SOPs and quality standards while enforcing standardized processes to guarantee repeatable show quality.· Other relevant duties may be assigned by management. All employees are expected to adhere to the B.I. Values (The B.I. Way): · Respect: Be considerate of one's self, one another, the team, clients, vendors, venues & our equipment.· Service: Exceed expectations. Be the problem solver. Be a partner not just a vendor.· Integrity: By ensuring actions are consistent with words. earn the trust of both internal and external customers, by dedication, responsibility, consistency, honesty and truthfulness in relationships.· Creativity: We're passionate, and we love tough problems and new challenges. You don't hear a lot of "I don't know how" or "I can't." When faced with a hurdle, we come together and strive to be clever, original, inventive and cutting edge.· Growth: We recognize that people are one of our key assets and we should value their contributions, reward them fairly, and develop them to their fullest potential. Our goal is to provide leadership opportunities for further growth, thus helping our people realize their career aspirations.· Attitude: Our attitude is shaped by combining these elements together. How we tackle a problem, work with a client or interact with one another is just as important as what we create. Work Environment: · This position will be split between working indoors in a climate-controlled environment and on event show sites that may be indoors or outdoors and exposed to weather conditions, dirt or dust. Physical Demands: · Frequent periods of sitting with frequent periods of standing, walking, bending, reaching, climbing and balancing. Lifting: · Must be able to lift, carry and exert force up to 50 pounds occasionally. Vision & Hearing: · Must be able to distinguish colors, use close vision for computer screens/documents, use distance vision and have the ability to judge depth perception and spatial awareness for safety precautions.· Must be able to hear sufficiently to understand and comprehend individual conversations and listen for potential safety precautions. Noise: · The noise levels in the work environment are usually moderate with standard business office equipment and may increase to occasional loud noise levels with large production gear or equipment moves.Brite Ideas provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 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