Learning & Development Specialist

About the Company

RNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things.

Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

We’re looking for a Learning & Development Specialist that will support the day-to‑day operations of Renegade Academy and help ensure learning programs are organized, accessible, accurately documented, and delivered smoothly. Success in this role requires strong organization, attention to detail, technology aptitude, responsive learner support, clear communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

This role coordinates training schedules and logistics, administers the learning management system, maintains learning, apprenticeship, and certification records, and provides administrative support across Academy programs. The Learning and Development Specialist works across all Renegade Academy development portfolios and serves as a key point of coordination between Learning Managers, employees, instructors, subject matter experts, vendors, and business partners.

• Learning Administration and Coordination
  • Schedule instructor‑led, virtual, and hands‑on training across Renegade Academy
  • Manage registrations, enrollments, calendars, attendance, and completion
  • Coordinate classrooms, facilities, equipment, materials, and technology needed for training delivery.
  • Send participant communications, reminders, updates, and follow‑up
  • Support instructors and facilitators before, during, and after
  • Coordinate cancellations, rescheduling, and make‑up
  • Maintain the master Renegade Academy learning
• Learning Management System Administration
  • Create and maintain courses, learning paths, sessions, groups, assignments, and enrollments within Renegade
  • Maintain accurate employee learning records and completion
  • Support course configuration, catalog organization, naming conventions, and established Academy standards.
  • Troubleshoot routine learner access and platform issues and elevate technical concerns when needed.
  • Support testing of new learning management system features, updates, and
  • Serve as a primary point of contact for employee and manager learning management system
• Apprenticeship and Certification Management
  • Maintain apprentice enrollment, progression, required hours, competencies, and supporting
  • Coordinate apprenticeship records with instructors, supervisors, and program
  • Maintain certification, credential, and practical‑evaluation
  • Track required documentation, expiration dates, milestones, and outstanding
  • Support NCCER and other apprenticeship and certification
  • Ensure apprenticeship and certification records remain complete, accurate, organized, and audit‑ready.
• Program and Learner Support
  • Provide support to Learning Managers across Renegade Academy development
  • Prepare participant materials, rosters, reports, evaluations, and training
  • Coordinate instructors, subject matter experts, vendors, participants, and business partners as needed.
  • Track program milestones and follow up on outstanding
  • Help employees and managers navigate Academy programs, requirements, systems, and resources.
  • Provide timely and responsive support that contributes to a positive learning
• Reporting and Records
  • Maintain accurate…