We believe in clearly laying out for team members exactly how they can succeed at Bridgeview. When they're first hired, part of our onboarding process is to explain the "Bridge to Success" to them. 

Everyone starts at the beginning. We don't care if you have a high school diploma or a college degree, when you first start a Bridgeview, you're a Junior-Level team member. After a year (and the accomplishment of various tasks/trainings), a team member can graduate to a Mid-Level team member. This involves a certificate, a round of applause, cupcakes, and a raise! As our team members, gain more experience within the company, they have opportunities for raises, promotions, and more cupcakes.

​How do you encourage team members to grow within the company?

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Peter (right) is learning how to insert a small and complicated pin. His sign-off sheet (right) is a record of the various tools he has been trained on. Way to go, Peter!

Here at Bridgeview, we believe in lifting up and empowering people of all backgrounds and abilities. We have various personalities that work for us but we also have team members with challenges that other employers might shy away from. From autism to mental health issues, we feel strongly that we can be a place of respect and encouragement for those who simply want to feel proud of the work they do.

​How do you support team members of different abilities?

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Richard and Peter (left) make a fantastic production team, even if there is 40 years difference between them. Kevin and Seth (right) developed our testing procedures. With their combined backgrounds in engineering and programming, they have developed a solid testing program.

Oh yes, it's that time of year. It's time for the Safety Review!

We spent our weekly team meeting discussing the various safety measures we take here at Bridgeview to make sure we all have a safe and happy work environment. This include things like wearing gloves when working with materials that might slip or that might affect our skin, and wearing safety glasses when soldering. We identified the many various pieces of safety equipment we use around the shop, like cord strips for the floor and machines shields for our pneumatic tools, and we talked about the processes we include in building assemblies that keep everyone safe, like keeping our work area clean.

Safety is never the most exciting topic but we tried to keep the discussion light-hearted while also making sure that everyone understood the importance of the topic. 

How do you keep your team members safe?


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Richard's pneumatic tool (left) has a guard to protect fingers from the moving crimping part. Peter (right) uses gloves to help him grip the assemblies better and protect his hands from sharp crimp edges.

Welcome to 2024! We have a lot of exciting things happening at Bridgeview and a lot of plans for 2024.

As you know, we cover topics in our blog that we discuss as a team during our weekly team meetings on Mondays. This Monday we talked about the future of Bridgeview and we asked our team members to dream with us about what 2024 could potentially hold for our company.

Our mission at Bridgeview is to empower American manufacturing. This means not only helping companies produce an amazing product but it also means lifting up and supporting American workers. We do this by focusing on amazing customer relations and telling the "story" of each of our customers to our team members. Our team members know when a company was founded, who founded it, what the mission of the company is, the names of people we have contact with, and information about the specific products we are helping build. This paints a great picture for everyone of who we're building for. We can't build for a faceless corporation. We build for people: for the men and women, the moms and dads, and the grandmas and  grandpas that work for the companies we support. We are a people-centric company and we feel that's what sets us apart.

What do you have planned for 2024? 

(Below: We love to visit our customers. Collin and Kevin (left) are checking out our cables inside a customer's industrial automation machine. Collin (left) visits Chris and gets a demo of how our cables are installed in their conversion van.