Head of Project Management

Job Description Company Summary Brite Ideas is a 30+ year old company that delivers audio visual technical services and equipment for live and virtual events and productions for entertainment, corporate, non-profit, educational, and art center organizations. We are one of SoCal’s top audio-visual technical production companies for meetings and events. We have some of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and performance-excellence employees in our business. We aspire to find the best employees in our industry – individuals with integrity and enthusiasm for performance excellence.

Medical, Dental, Vision, Voluntary & Additional Life Insurance, Critical Illness, Accident, and Short-Term Disability Insurance

• Generous Paid Time Off including Sick, Vacation, and Holiday Shutdown
• Job Summary At 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.

Essential Functions · 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.
• Interface with Technical Design to determine all technical requirements including lighting, video – LED, projection and virtual - audio, rigging, and other ancillary production items.
• 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.

Be considerate of one's self, one another, the team, clients, vendors, venues & our equipment.

• earn the trust of both internal and external customers, by dedication, responsibility, consistency, honesty and truthfulness in relationships.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
· 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.
EEO Policy 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Experience & Education Requirements · Must have a bachelor’s degree in Technical Theatre, Entertainment Design, or related field or 6+ years of managing live events.

• Must have three (3)+ years direct management experience of employees, project teams, vendors & freelancers.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Vectorworks Spotlight Professional certification is preferred.
• Fire-code & rigging literacy, ETCP Rigging, OSHA 10/30 certifications are preferred.
• Must have reliable transportation and/or a valid driver’s license for site surveys.

Excellent time management skills to prioritize projects under deadlines.

• Advanced budgeting & margin analysis skills to determine P/L for each project.
• Ability to stay focused, remain calm and maintain composure on all projects.
• A creative mind with the ability to suggest improvements.
• Familiar with working on both PC and Mac computers and using MS Office.
• Ability to occasionally work overtime, weekends and evenings.