POSITION SUMMARY
As a leader in Micro Lens Array (MLA) technology, BrightView Technologies designs and manufactures highly innovative optical components for applications including AR/VR, automotive, aerospace, LED lighting, advanced displays, and 3D sensing. As a venture capital-backed technology company, BrightView offers employees the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment focused on developing and commercializing next-generation optical technologies.
The Project Manager is responsible for leading, prioritizing, and tracking multiple parallel cross-functional projects from inception through mass production. This individual ensures that customer programs and product development projects move forward successfully, with on time deliverables, within scope, and aligned with BrightView’s stage-gate process milestones. Operating with a high degree of attention to detail and excellent communication skills, the Project Manager collaborates with operations, engineering, quality, and sales to balance competing priorities and keeps team resources focused on high impact actions and projects.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
· Project Tracking & Execution: Manage multiple projects simultaneously; ensure deliverables are met from kickoff through completion.
· Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate daily with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Sales to ensure teams are coordinated, project requirements are updated and clearly communicated, and tasks are completed.
· Prioritization: Evaluate competing demands across the project portfolio, dynamically prioritizing tasks based on deadlines and resource availability.
· Stage-Gate Governance: Guide product development through BrightView’s formal stage-gate process, ensuring technical and quality requirements are well documented and met before advancing.
· Problem Solving: Proactively identify bottlenecks and/or resource constraints; develop and execute mitigation plans and escalate issues with a proposed path forward when needed.
· Communication & Reporting: Provide clear project updates, progress reports, and schedule changes to internal and external (customer) stakeholders.
· Meeting Facilitation: Lead internal and external status meetings, capture action items, assign owners, and follow up to ensure completion.
· Process Improvement: Support post-mortems and improve project workflows, documentation, and tools.
· Customer Audits: Participate in customer audits as needed.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
· Education: Bachelor’s degree required; a degree in a technical / engineering field is highly desirable.
· Experience: 3–5 years of dedicated project management experience, preferably in a manufacturing related industry.
· Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification is desired.
· Software Proficiency: In depth knowledge of a collaborative project management software platform, such as Smartsheet, MS Project, or equivalent, and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite. Experience in navigating ERP and CRM systems is a plus
KNOWLEDGE, SKILS, & ABILITITIES
· Demonstrated ability to efficiently organize multiple complex tasks and adapt to fast-changing schedules.
· Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with a proven knack for presenting project milestones clearly.
· Meticulous attention to detail and organizational habits; a refusal to let milestones or action items slip through the cracks.
· Ability to act with integrity, respect, honesty, professionalism, and confidentiality at all times.
· Solid understanding of phased product development methodologies and formal stage-gate processes from R&D through production scale-up.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
· Integrity: Maintains high ethical standards and honest behavior.
· Initiative and Ownership: Takes proactive action, persists through obstacles, and accepts accountability for results.
· Work Ethic: Works diligently, uses time effectively, and takes pride in quality work.
· Agility: Adapts quickly to changing tasks, priorities, people, and environments.
· Decision Making: Uses relevant information to identify issues, evaluate options, and take action.
· Organizes and Plans Work: Sets clear actions, deadlines, owners, and follow-up plans.
· Communication: Communicates clearly, listens effectively, presents information well, and manages conflict professionally.
· Stakeholder Focused: Anticipates stakeholder needs, considers business impact, and builds strong working relationships.
· Supports Others: Contributes to team goals and works effectively with colleagues, customers, and suppliers.
· Embraces Change: Stays open to new ideas and views problems as opportunities to improve.
· Learns Continuously: Actively seeks learning and growth opportunities.
· Shows commitment to efficiency, safety, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, and handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, balance, crawl, crouch or climb a ladder. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Note
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- On average, how many lines or work orders were you coordinating each day? Five, ten, fifty, hundreds?
- In your previous role, were you communicating with both the plant floor supervision and customer service daily? What were the challenges?
- How often were you having to adjust the schedule you created? What were the most frequent reasons for changes?
- What was your approach to learning how best to prioritize production jobs in your previous role? Did you have a mentor to train you in the details?
- What tools were you using to consolidate open orders and arrange them?
- When have you contributed to a team working to streamline operations or fix a specific problem?
Work Location: In person
