Project Manager

About the role

As a Project Manager, you’ll take the lead on customer projects of a wide variety, including nuclear power sites, from award through closeout, ensuring safety, schedule, profit, and customer satisfaction are always top priorities. You’ll drive the project forward, keeping it on track, on budget, and within scope. Working closely with your project team, you’ll manage the schedule, highlight critical path items, and proactively tackle challenges before they become issues. You’ll also make sure the safety plan and key project priorities are clearly communicated to the Superintendent and field leadership.

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, and work with the 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 manage field leadership.
• Obtain plant access at nuclear and government sites.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or sufficient experience.
• Ability to obtain plant access at nuclear and government sites.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Working knowledge and understanding of engineering plans and specifications.
• Mechanically inclined with an understanding of industrial construction markets, including power generation (nuclear power), Department of Energy sites, and manufacturing (e.g., pharmaceuticals).
• Basic understanding of machinery, heavy construction, and 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 or vehicle allowance.
• Medical, paid time off, and holiday benefits.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Additional personal and professional benefits.
• Barnhart CARES family care and community service opportunities.

About the Company

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 a nationwide reputation for solving problems, specializing in lifting, heavy-rigging, and heavy transport of major components used in American industry. With over 60 branch locations across the U.S., Barnhart offers constant opportunity for career growth and professional development. The company culture values Safety, Servant Leadership, Quality Service, Innovation, Continuous Improvement, Fairness, and Profit with a Purpose.