Jobs at Barnhart Crane & Rigging

Develops and grows customer accounts in heavy industrial and energy markets through prospecting, jobsite visits, proposals, RFP responses, solution presentations, and relationship management. Identifies expansion opportunities, builds sales plans, qualifies leads, estimates project costs, closes profitable work, and coordinates project development with Operations. Requires industrial sales expertise, familiarity with heavy lifting and transportation, strong communication skills, and frequent travel to customer sites.

Manages heavy construction and rigging projects from sales handoff through execution, overseeing safety, schedules, budgets, profitability, quality, risk, and customer satisfaction. Coordinates project teams, field leadership, crews, equipment, engineers, vendors, and suppliers. Reviews contracts and project scope, develops schedules and identifies critical path risks, communicates project status, and resolves potential cost or schedule issues. Travel and field leadership management are required.

Manage industrial construction projects from award through closeout, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, risk, customer satisfaction, crews, equipment, vendors, and field leadership. Responsibilities include contract review, proposal support, project scheduling, critical-path management, status reporting, issue resolution, and coordination across customers, engineers, suppliers, and project teams. Projects may involve nuclear power, government, manufacturing, and other industrial sites.

Lead hands-on field operations and crews, ensure safety and DOT compliance, manage scheduling and equipment utilization, coach and develop field personnel, support recruiting and onboarding, implement operational best practices, and use IFS ERP and Boom Up for scheduling and reporting to improve efficiency and profitability.

Lead heavy-rigging and construction projects from award through closeout. Coordinate crews, equipment, customers, engineers, vendors, and project teams while managing safety, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, contracts, and client satisfaction. This hands-on role requires significant job-site work, real-time problem solving, field leadership, and travel as needed. The manager also supports proposals, contract reviews, project planning, schedule development, status reporting, and continuous improvement of project management practices.

Supports the Risk Management team through project and operational auditing, compliance monitoring, and regulatory research. Reviews contractor payroll and records for contractual and state employment law compliance, maintains project compliance dashboards, coordinates with Operations, and assists with licensing, registration, contracts, and document processing.

Lead technical authority for complex mechanical/structural R&D projects in heavy lift. Mentor and coordinate a multidisciplinary engineering team, perform hands-on high-complexity design and analysis, drive innovation, ensure compliance with codes and safety, and support critical lift operations.

Manage branch administrative and operational support including employee onboarding and compliance, tracking certifications/licenses, payroll/time tracking, invoicing and payables, procurement, job file and project support, monthly safety materials, and supervise a part-time admin assistant. Ensure policy and safety compliance and support the Branch Manager with additional administrative duties.

The Project Sales Representative develops strategies for sales in heavy industrial and energy markets, manages client relationships, and closes sales by delivering tailored solutions.

Lead construction/rigging projects from award through closeout, managing safety, schedule, budget, crews, equipment, and client relationships. Actively work in the field, coordinate stakeholders, maintain schedules, report status, and solve onsite problems to ensure project success.

Support sales and operations by developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, forecasting, and performance reports. Manage project documentation (job books, timesheets, delay notices, change orders, purchase order logs, quality and incident reports). Provide routine reporting to operations and senior management and participate in training and cross-functional tasks to support safe, profitable, on-time project delivery.

Review, draft, and negotiate company contracts, job tickets, purchase orders, and agreements; analyze and advise on risk, indemnification, insurance, and compliance; draft exceptions and ancillary documents; support bidding, retention, reporting, contract processing, and negotiations.

Field-based sales role developing accounts in heavy industrial and energy markets. Responsibilities include prospecting, discovery meetings, tailored proposals, closing deals, and coordinating project development with operations for heavy lift, rigging, and transport services.

Lead projects from award through closeout with hands-on, field-driven oversight. Manage schedule, budget, safety, crews, equipment, client communication, risk, and project documentation. Coordinate with sales, engineers, vendors, and field leadership to ensure project execution and client satisfaction.

Sell heavy lift and transport solutions to industrial and energy customers. Develop account strategies, prospect and qualify leads, conduct discovery, prepare tailored proposals, present to decision teams, close deals, and coordinate project development with operations.

Lead the project team to ensure project completion with safety and quality. Communicate project status, manage resources, and maintain cost forecasts.

Manage internal communications strategy and channels (intranet, email, digital signage, video). Create written and multimedia content, support leadership communications, coordinate cross-functional messaging, track engagement metrics, and drive employee engagement across multi-location teams.

Lead implementation of the HSE management system for projects, manage risk and incidents, conduct onboarding and safety training, perform observations and investigations, report HSE status to leadership and customers, and coach personnel to ensure compliance and wellbeing.

Lead and implement branch-level HSE programs, conduct incident management and investigations, develop and deliver training, perform field inspections, liaise with client safety reps, produce safety reports, ensure regulatory and client compliance, and support corporate VP of Risk Management.

Develop sales strategies, execute annual plans, prospect leads, conduct customer meetings, deliver proposals, close sales, and coordinate with operations.