Senior Preconstruction Manager - Steel

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 offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

We’re looking for a Senior Preconstruction Manager – Steel to lead the day-to-day operations of RNGD’s steel preconstruction team and drive the development of competitive, executable solutions for structural and miscellaneous steel projects. This role leads conceptual estimating, design-build and design-assist coordination, estimate development, scope strategy, value engineering, and preconstruction planning from early pursuit through project handoff.

The Senior Preconstruction Manager – Steel will lead and develop the steel estimating team while partnering closely with Business Development, design partners, Detailing and VDC, Steel Manufacturing, Procurement, Project Management, Logistics, and Field Operations to ensure proposed solutions align with client objectives, RNGD’s fabrication capabilities, and project execution requirements.

• Lead the day-to-day operations, workload, priorities, and deliverables of the steel preconstruction and estimating team.
• Assign and oversee pursuits, establish estimating expectations, and ensure quality, consistency, and timely completion of preconstruction deliverables.
• Review estimates, assumptions, scopes, qualifications, and pricing before final submission.
• Coach and develop estimators and preconstruction team members while establishing consistent processes, standards, and accountability.
• Coordinate pursuit priorities and resource needs with Steel and company leadership.

• Lead conceptual, schematic, design-development, and final estimating for structural and miscellaneous steel projects.
• Develop early-stage budgets and cost models using available design information, historical data, market conditions, and informed assumptions.
• Oversee quantity takeoffs and pricing for material, fabrication, detailing, coatings, freight, erection, equipment, and subcontracted work.
• Establish and validate labor, productivity, fabrication, procurement, logistics, and erection assumptions.
• Maintain visibility into steel market conditions, cost drivers, historical performance, and production capabilities to support reliable forecasting.

• Lead steel preconstruction involvement in design-build and design-assist pursuits, partnering with clients, general contractors, architects, engineers, and internal technical teams.
• Provide early input regarding structural systems, connection strategies, material selection, fabrication approach, sequencing, logistics, and erection planning.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities that improve constructability, cost, schedule, fabrication efficiency, or field execution.
• Facilitate alignment between design intent, project requirements, fabrication capabilities, and installation strategy.
• Identify scope gaps, constructability concerns, design risks, and execution constraints early enough to influence project outcomes.

• Partner with Business Development and leadership…