Project Manger

Barnhart Crane & Rigging • Richland, WA

2d • $90,000 - $120,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The project manager will lead projects from award through closeout, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction. This is a hands-on, field-driven role—you will spend significant time on job sites working alongside crews, solving problems in real time, and staying close to the work. Candidates should expect to be actively engaged in the field, not just managing from an office. This role provides oversight, evaluation, and improvement of the efficiency of the project management team, ensuring adherence to management principles established by the Senior Leadership Team. The project manager will participate in customer site visits, proposal development, and contract development/reviews to ensure a complete understanding of scope, contractual obligations, and risk of jobs. They will work with the Project Sales Representative before project development, taking the project from sales through development into execution, maintaining communication throughout the project, and documenting changes that affect the job scope, schedule, or budget agreement. The role involves interacting with customers, engineers, vendors, suppliers, and others during the design and planning phase. A key responsibility is working closely with the project team to develop and maintain an overall project schedule, highlighting critical path items and anticipating problematic issues. The project manager is responsible for foreseeing typical issues that historically challenge schedules, construction, and impact project costs, and then working with the project team to develop solutions. Regular and accurate communication of project status, including schedule, financial status, risk assessment, quality, safety, and other key areas, is essential. The role also includes coordinating work crews and scheduling required equipment. The project manager must be willing to travel as needed and be able to work with and manage field leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or sufficient experience.
• Experience enough to meet or exceed the essential duties listed above.
• A working knowledge and understanding of engineering plans and specifications.
• Must be mechanically inclined with basic understanding of machinery, heavy construction and basic principles of industrial project flow.
• Basic math and geometry are necessary.
• Must demonstrate planning and leadership skills.
• An understanding of construction contracts, Windows based software applications, and good time management skills.

Nice To Haves

• PMP is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from award through closeout, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction.
• Provide oversight, evaluation, and improvement of the efficiency of the project management team.
• Participate in customer site visits, proposal development, and contract development/reviews.
• Take the project from sales through development into execution, maintaining communication with Project Sales Representative.
• Document changes that affect the job scope, schedule, or budget agreement.
• Interact with customers, engineers, vendors, suppliers, and others throughout the design and planning phase.
• Develop and maintain an overall project schedule, showing critical path items and anticipating problematic issues.
• Foresee typical issues that historically challenge schedules, construction, and impact project costs, and work with the project team to develop solutions.
• Regularly and accurately communicate the project status, including schedule, financial status, risk assessment, quality, safety, and other key areas.
• Coordinate work crews and schedule required equipment.
• Manage field leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Bonus program that pays for performance.
• $1 for $1 match on 401(k), capped at 10% of Pay.
• Company Vehicle.
• Medical, Paid Time Off and Holiday, Disability, Life Insurance, and other additional personal and professional benefits are available.
• Barnhart CARES family care and community service opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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