Branch Manager

Barnhart Crane & Rigging • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Branch Manager is Barnhart’s local leader and is treated as a business owner, responsible for leading the branch team and its sales, execution, and financial results. The role emphasizes team leadership and development, safety, quality, customer satisfaction, and alignment with Barnhart’s Mission Statement and Core Values. The manager collaborates with other branches to execute work across regional and national operations and uses a servant-leadership approach to support the One Team culture.

The Branch Manager builds and develops capability across Sales, Operations, Project Management, Dispatch, Maintenance, and Facilities. The role also involves developing the local team and culture through training, recognition, and a focus on significance, belonging, trust, and progress. Barnhart describes its work as lifting, heavy rigging, and heavy transport of major components used in American industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or sufficient experience.
• Previous leadership experience is preferred.
• Experience leading and developing a team and building a culture aligned with a company mission and core values is preferred.
• Financial skills to lead a team in building a successful business plan and achieving success metrics are preferred.
• Computer software and management-reporting expertise for communicating metrics, processes, and enhancements is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Mechanical inclination and a proven track record in rigging, lifting, fabrication, maintenance, or transportation execution.
• Project Management experience in construction and/or industrial industries.
• Previous leadership experience.
• Experience developing a team and building a strong culture aligned with a company mission and core values.
• Financial skills in business planning and achieving success metrics.
• Computer software and management-reporting expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead the branch team in sales, execution, and financial results.
• Lead the branch as a business owner, with a strong focus on safety and quality.
• Develop and lead the team, building capability in Sales, Operations, Project Management, Dispatch, Maintenance, and Facilities.
• Collaborate with other branches to execute work across the region and national footprint.
• Align branch leadership with Barnhart’s Mission Statement, Core Values, and servant-leadership model.
• Motivate the branch team to achieve financial returns, safety, customer satisfaction, and other success metrics.
• Build a local culture of significance, belonging, trust, progress, and recognition through training and team development.
• Develop a business plan and lead the team toward its success metrics.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonus.
• Paid time off and other benefits.
• Deferred Compensation program that shares the branch’s earnings.
• Barnhart CARES family care and community service opportunities.
• $1-for-$1 401(k) match, capped at 10% of pay.
• Company vehicle.
• Health insurance.
• Paid holidays.
• Long- and short-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager