Jobs at Barnhart Crane & Rigging

Expand market share and profitability across strategic markets by developing customers, supporting sales and marketing strategies, coordinating branch teams, engaging key customers, tracking performance, analyzing competitors, supporting proposals, and coaching sales personnel. The role serves as a bridge between field sales teams, branches, marketing, and senior management while promoting safety and effective resource allocation.

Supports U.S. and Canadian payroll operations by reviewing time, earnings, deductions, and employee changes; processing payroll and reconciliations; maintaining records; administering vacation, bonuses, union deductions, and remittances; preparing Canadian payroll documentation; resolving discrepancies; answering payroll inquiries; and improving procedures while protecting confidential information.

Develops customer relationships and drives sales of heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Identifies opportunities, conducts site evaluations, develops estimates and proposals, presents solutions, negotiates scope and pricing, and coordinates transitions to execution. Collaborates with engineering, operations, and field teams while promoting safety and maintaining accurate customer and opportunity records. Regular travel, outdoor jobsite work, and climbing may be required.

Creates detailed fabrication and machining drawings from concepts and field measurements. Develops bills of materials, part designs, and material-cutting nests while coordinating with engineers, fabrication teams, and contractors. Supports custom equipment production, continuous improvement, and safety goals. The role also includes learning to operate plasma tables and waterjet equipment and assisting with cutting parts for heavy-lift and specialty-rigging projects.

Temporary CAD Designer/Drafter supporting heavy-lift, rigging, transportation, and equipment-setting projects. Responsibilities include creating and revising 2D and 3D drawings, equipment layouts, lift plans, rigging arrangements, fabrication drawings, and project documentation. The role coordinates with engineers, project managers, superintendents, and field personnel, incorporates field changes, tracks drawing revisions, and verifies site conditions through walkdowns. This is an on-site position in an active industrial construction environment with occasional travel.

Provides project documentation, scheduling, administrative, and coordination support for industrial construction activities. Maintains project records, RFIs, submittals, change orders, permits, reports, and close-out documentation. Coordinates meetings, timesheets, expenses, invoices, procurement, employee onboarding, site training, and badging. Requires advanced Excel, strong organization, communication, and deadline-management skills. The temporary assignment is expected to last 6–12 months, with possible extension.

Develops customer relationships and drives sales of heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project solutions. Identifies opportunities, evaluates jobsites, prepares estimates and proposals, leads customer presentations and negotiations, and coordinates transitions to execution. Collaborates with engineering, operations, and field teams to deliver safe, technically sound solutions. Requires industrial sales or related experience, technical aptitude, project management skills, regular travel, jobsite mobility, and a valid driver’s license.

Engineering Intern supporting heavy-lift and heavy-transport solutions through AutoCAD and Inventor modeling, equipment layouts, basic steel design, calculations, engineering process improvements, and proposal tools. The role includes collaboration with engineers and field teams, equipment and rigging familiarization, troubleshooting, and local field support at branch, yard, and project locations.

Develops customer relationships and drives sales of heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Identifies opportunities, evaluates jobsites, develops estimates and proposals, presents solutions, negotiates project terms, and coordinates transitions to execution. The role requires collaboration with engineering, operations, and field teams, regular travel, technical aptitude, and a strong focus on safety.

Maintains planning, scheduling, tracking, and forecasting systems for maintenance operations. Builds and troubleshoots spreadsheets, organizes operational data, monitors job progress, identifies resource gaps and scheduling conflicts, generates leadership reports, and coordinates with operations, dispatch, IT, and software vendors. Supports process improvement, system accuracy, and resource planning while maintaining high attention to detail and data integrity.

Leads and develops a Project Coordinator team while managing complex crane, rigging, and heavy haul projects. Serves as project manager and primary customer contact, assigns project resources, coordinates labor and equipment, resolves operational conflicts, monitors project risks and financial performance, and reports status to branch leadership.

Supports engineers in designing and documenting heavy-lift and transport equipment. Creates CAD models, concept and fabrication drawings, load-testing documentation, specification sheets, and equipment packages. Assists with basic mechanical design, structural analysis, troubleshooting, fabrication support, and design revisions while following applicable drawing standards. The role includes hands-on learning, collaboration with engineers and field personnel, occasional job-site visits, and work in potentially hazardous outdoor environments.

The Risk Manager leads enterprise risk management, insurance placement, claims, third-party liability, risk financing, contractual risk transfer, and loss mitigation. The role partners with branches, Safety, Operations, Finance, legal counsel, brokers, carriers, and claims administrators to analyze exposures, manage incidents, optimize insurance structures, and provide data-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include overseeing renewals, claims, reserves, subcontractor insurance compliance, risk analytics, acquisition due diligence, and regulatory compliance.

Leads Barnhart’s commercial legal function, including contract drafting and negotiation, commercial disputes and litigation, M&A, corporate governance, and transactional risk management. Advises branches, sales, operations, and senior leadership; manages outside counsel and the contract review team; develops legal playbooks and processes; supports AI-enabled contract review; and drives practical risk mitigation aligned with commercial growth.

Provides administrative support for employee CARES programs, including grant application review, counseling invoice processing, scholarship administration, event registration, data tracking, record maintenance, and confidential information handling. The intern also supports reporting, special projects, and general program coordination for employees and their families.

Provides technical support for heavy lifting, specialty rigging, and risk management projects. Conducts jobsite walkdowns, develops AutoCAD layouts for heavy lifts and transports, evaluates rigging equipment solutions, performs minor design calculations under senior engineering guidance, and supports critical-lift risk management and safety evaluations.

Manages key customer accounts and drives growth across lifting, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Builds customer relationships, identifies expansion opportunities, conducts meetings and jobsite visits, develops proposals, coordinates with engineering and operations teams, supports project execution, and manages renewals and repeat business. Requires strong communication, commercial awareness, mechanical aptitude, organizational skills, CRM proficiency, local travel, and the ability to perform outdoor jobsite activities.

Leads FP&A, treasury, forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, reporting, dashboards, and business analytics. Partners with executive and operational leaders to improve performance, guide strategic investments, manage liquidity and banking relationships, and support capital planning. Oversees finance transformation and process improvements while developing a team of finance professionals and translating complex financial information into actionable business insights.

Coordinates transportation logistics for cranes, forklifts, hoists, gantries, and other specialized equipment. Supports load planning, scheduling, shipment coordination, regulatory compliance, and delivery tracking. Communicates with drivers, vendors, and internal teams while learning heavy-haul transportation and crane industry operations. This onsite trainee role includes hands-on training, mentorship, and opportunities for professional growth.

Manage and grow strategic customer accounts for specialized lifting, transportation, heavy haul, and engineered services. Develop account strategies, build executive relationships, identify cross-service opportunities, lead proposals from prospecting through award, and coordinate with operations, engineering, estimating, and project teams. Maintain CRM records, communicate forecasts and growth plans, and achieve sales and profitability targets.