Jobs at Barnhart Crane & Rigging

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.

Supports the talent acquisition function by managing offer letters, pre-employment testing, vendor invoices, career events, candidate travel, reimbursements, records, staffing reports, surveys, and exit interviews. Coordinates with candidates, hiring managers, vendors, and recruiting leadership while maintaining confidentiality, compliance, and accurate documentation. Provides administrative, reporting, logistical, and workforce-planning support in a fully onsite role.

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.

Develops customer relationships and drives growth through consultative sales of heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Identifies opportunities, conducts site visits, prepares estimates and proposals, leads customer presentations and negotiations, and coordinates with engineering, operations, and field teams through project execution. The role requires technical aptitude, project evaluation skills, regular travel, and a strong commitment to safety.

Develops customer relationships and drives sales of heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Identifies opportunities, conducts site visits, develops estimates and proposals, presents solutions, negotiates pricing and scope, and coordinates transitions to project execution. The role requires collaboration with engineering, operations, and field teams, technical aptitude, consultative selling skills, regular travel, and a strong commitment to safety.

Leads Barnhart’s project portfolio and project management program across its branch network. Establishes governance, processes, standards, reporting, and performance metrics; oversees project health, resource allocation, risks, and complex projects. Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to improve execution, implement project tools, support project teams, and drive accountability, safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Provides leadership, mentoring, project reviews, corrective-action guidance, and performance insights, including for nuclear-related projects.

Supports project managers with planning and coordination of heavy-lift, heavy-transport, and specialized rigging projects. Responsibilities include schedule development, cost tracking, customer submittals, project documentation, proposal support, meetings, site visits, and local field coordination. The intern gains exposure to equipment, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, and project execution while collaborating with engineers, superintendents, and field teams.

Develops customer relationships and drives sales of heavy-lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized project services. Evaluates customer projects and jobsites, develops technical solutions with engineering and field teams, prepares estimates and proposals, leads presentations and negotiations, and coordinates transitions to execution. The role requires mechanical aptitude, consultative selling, project coordination, regular travel, outdoor jobsite work, and a strong commitment to safety.

Leads the design and development of custom crane, rigging, and structural equipment. Creates drawings, 3D models, specifications, calculations, manuals, and test plans; performs structural analysis and ensures compliance with engineering and safety standards. Coordinates with project managers, fabricators, suppliers, clients, and field personnel, provides onsite technical support, manages schedules and costs, assesses operational risks, and mentors junior engineers.

Develop customer relationships and grow sales for heavy lift, rigging, transportation, and specialized industrial project services. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, conducting site visits, understanding customer needs, developing estimates and proposals, presenting solutions, negotiating pricing and scope, and coordinating project transitions with engineering, operations, and field teams. The role requires technical aptitude, consultative selling skills, regular travel, and a strong focus on safety.

Supports engineers in developing heavy-lift and heavy-transport solutions through AutoCAD and Inventor modeling, equipment layout drawings, basic steel design, calculations, engineering process improvements, and proposal support. Collaborates with engineering, management, and field teams; develops knowledge of rigging equipment and operations; troubleshoots equipment issues; and provides local field support. The internship is based in the Memphis branch, equipment yard, and project field locations.