About the Job: As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead large, complex, and high-risk projects from pursuit through closeout. You are fully accountable for safety, financial performance, schedule execution, and customer satisfaction. This role requires advanced leadership, deep crane and rigging expertise, and experience managing outages, turnarounds, and major projects.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Serve as the single point of accountability for complex and major projects.
- Lead detailed project planning, execution strategies, and risk mitigation plans.
- Manage outage and turnaround schedules, sequencing, and coordination with multiple stakeholders.
- Oversee project estimates, staffing plans, equipment utilization, and subcontractor management.
- Approve job cost reports, cash flow projections, and negotiate change orders.
- Provide regular executive-level reporting on project performance and risk.
- Mentor and develop Project Managers and project staff.
- Maintain strong customer relationships and support business development efforts.
- Ensure strict adherence to safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications:
- Crane and rigging experience required; outage and turnaround experience; complex/major project experience
- Extensive experience with crane and rigging operations on complex projects.
- Proven success managing outages, turnarounds, and large industrial projects.
- Strong contract negotiation and financial management skills.
- MP certification preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 75% annually and obtain access to government or industrial sites.
Experience: 5+ years of project management experience
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonus program.
- $1-for-$1 401(k) match up to 10% of pay.
- Company vehicle (role dependent).
- Medical, PTO, holidays, disability, life insurance, and additional benefits.
- Barnhart CARES program supporting employee well-being.
PURPOSE – 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.
MINDS OVER MATTER – Barnhart has built a nationwide reputation for solving problems. We specialize in the lifting, heavy-rigging, and heavy transport of major components used in American industry.
NETWORK – Barnhart has built teams that form one of our industry’s strongest networks of talent and resources with over 60 branch locations across the U.S. working together to serve our customers. This growing network offers our team members constant opportunity for career growth and professional development.
CULTURE – Barnhart has a strong team culture -- the “One TEAM.” We are looking for smart, hard-working people who strive for excellence in their work and appreciate collaboration. Join a team that values Safety, Servant Leadership, Quality Service, Innovation, Continuous Improvement, Fairness, and Profit with a Purpose.
EOE/AA Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
What We Do
Since 1969, Barnhart Crane & Rigging has been providing innovative solutions to complex lifting and transportation challenges faced by heavy industry – from power generation to petrochemical to renewable energy, and beyond. Today with 56 branches across the U.S., Barnhart has one of the strongest equipment networks in the nation. Barnhart's network gives customers the flexibility of accessing a nationwide equipment inventory. Because all of the branches are part of the same system, customers are never limited to the equipment at a single location. Each of Barnhart's branches has access to a long list of "cool tools" including PSTe Goldhofer trailers, cranes 15 to 1,760 tons, slide systems, strand-jacks, and the Modular Lift Tower. Contact us today and let us find the right tool for you.
