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
