Project Manager

Our team at Barnhart is looking for a strategic, detail-oriented Project Manager to develop, plan, and oversee transportation projects from initial customer discussions through completion, bringing together our resources, expertise, and partnerships to deliver successful outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Customer Discovery and Project Development -

• Meet with customers to establish scope, freight characteristics, timelines, budgets, and service expectations
• Assess project fit with Barnhart’s transportation, specialized hauling, warehousing, and partner capabilities
• Coordinate customer meetings, site visits, and project discovery with Sales

Solution Design and Quoting -

• Develop executable scopes of work, estimates, quotations, assumptions, and exclusions
• Coordinate routing, equipment, permits, escorts, transloading, storage, and third-party costs with Operations and Pricing
• Evaluate risk, contingencies, and expected margins before customer commitments

Operational Planning and Coordination -

• Lead project kickoff and handoff discussions with Operations and customers
• Document responsibilities, execution plans, schedules, milestones, and customer expectations
• Track progress, manage commercial scope changes, and communicate exceptions and resolutions

Financial and Project Controls -

• Track budgets, actual revenue and costs, margin, milestones, and project performance
• Document changes and accessorial services to support accurate billing
• Conduct post-project reviews and recommend process improvements

Relationship Growth -

• Identify follow-on business and opportunities across Barnhart services
• Maintain customer relationships and coordinate commercial reporting to leadership

Qualifications and Skills:

• Five or more years of transportation, logistics, or project management experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
• Knowledge of domestic transportation, open-deck and specialized freight, warehousing, project costing, and execution
• Strong customer communication, commercial judgment, Excel skills; McLeod experience preferred
• Ability to travel for customer meetings and site visits as required

Industry Leading Benefits:

• Compensation Plan with Incentive Bonus Program
• 401(K)
• Holiday Pay (New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas)
• PTO (paid time off)
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Group Life Insurance ($20k coverage fully paid by employer)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Accident Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• HRA

Working Conditions:

Normal office setting. Requires use of a computer, reading, typing, sitting, standing, walking, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 25 lbs