Project Manager

About the role

The project manager will lead projects from award through closeout, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction. This is a hands-on, field-driven role—you will spend significant time on job sites working alongside crews, solving problems in real time, and staying close to the work. Candidates should expect to be actively engaged in the field, not just managing from an office.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight, evaluation, and improvement of the efficiency of the project management team, ensuring adherence to management principles established by the Senior Leadership Team.
• Participate in customer site visits, proposal development, and contract development/reviews to ensure complete understanding of scope, contractual obligations, and risk of jobs.
• Work with the Project Sales Representative before project development; take the project from sales through development into execution; maintain communication with the Project Sales Representative over the course of the project, and document changes that affect job scope, schedule, or budget agreement.
• Interact with customers, engineers, vendors, suppliers, and others throughout the design and planning phase of the project.
• Work closely with the project team to develop and maintain an overall project schedule, showing critical path items and anticipating problematic issues.
• Foresee typical issues that historically challenge schedules, construction, and impact project costs; identify these issues and work with the project team to develop solutions.
• Regularly and accurately communicate project status, including schedule, financial status, risk assessment, quality, safety, and other key areas.
• Coordinate work crews and schedule required equipment.
• Travel as needed and work with and manage field leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or sufficient experience.
• Experience to meet or exceed the essential duties listed above.
• Working knowledge and understanding of engineering plans and specifications.
• Mechanically inclined with a basic understanding of machinery, heavy construction, and basic principles of industrial project flow.
• Proficiency in basic math and geometry.
• Demonstrated planning and leadership skills.
• Understanding of construction contracts and Windows-based software applications.
• Good time management skills.
• PMP certification is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Bonus program that pays for performance.
• $1 for $1 match on 401(k), capped at 10% of pay.
• Company vehicle.
• Medical, paid time off, and holiday benefits.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Barnhart CARES family care and community service opportunities.

About Barnhart

Barnhart is built on a strong foundation of serving others. The fruit of our labor is used to grow the company, care for our employees, and serve those in our communities and around the world.

Barnhart has built a nationwide reputation for solving problems, specializing in the lifting, heavy-rigging, and heavy transport of major components used in American industry. With over 55 branch locations across the U.S., Barnhart offers team members constant opportunity for career growth and professional development.

Barnhart’s culture values Safety, Servant Leadership, Quality Service, Innovation, Continuous Improvement, Fairness, and Profit with a Purpose. The company operates as "One TEAM," looking for smart, hard-working individuals who strive for excellence and appreciate collaboration.