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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.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Senior Preconstruction Manager - Steelto 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.\nThe 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.\nCore Responsibilities\nPreconstruction Leadership and Team Management\nLead the day-to-day operations, workload, priorities, and deliverables of the steel preconstruction and estimating team.\nAssign and oversee pursuits, establish estimating expectations, and ensure quality, consistency, and timely completion of preconstruction deliverables.\nReview estimates, assumptions, scopes, qualifications, and pricing before final submission.\nCoach and develop estimators and preconstruction team members while establishing consistent processes, standards, and accountability.\nCoordinate pursuit priorities and resource needs with Steel and company leadership.\nConceptual Estimating and Cost Development\nLead conceptual, schematic, design-development, and final estimating for structural and miscellaneous steel projects.\nDevelop early-stage budgets and cost models using available design information, historical data, market conditions, and informed assumptions.\nOversee quantity takeoffs and pricing for material, fabrication, detailing, coatings, freight, erection, equipment, and subcontracted work.\nEstablish and validate labor, productivity, fabrication, procurement, logistics, and erection assumptions.\nMaintain visibility into steel market conditions, cost drivers, historical performance, and production capabilities to support reliable forecasting.\nDesign-Build, 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evaluations, and preconstruction presentations.\nDevelop clear scope narratives, assumptions, exclusions, qualifications, alternates, and proposal strategies.\nSolicit and evaluate vendor, supplier, subcontractor, erection, coatings, and logistics pricing as required.\nBalance competitiveness with appropriate consideration of project risk, capacity, schedule, and commercial objectives.\nPreconstruction Handoff and Continuous Improvement\nLead the transition of awarded projects from preconstruction into project execution, ensuring scope, budget, assumptions, commitments, risks, and strategy are clearly communicated.\nPartner with Project Management, Detailing and VDC, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, and Field Operations to validate project execution assumptions.\nMaintain and improve estimating databases, historical cost information, productivity benchmarks, standardized assemblies, and estimating tools.\nEvaluate estimate performance against actual project results and incorporate lessons learned into future pursuits.\nDrive continuous improvement of steel preconstruction processes, standards, technology, and workflows.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent structural steel preconstruction and estimating experience will be considered.\n7+ years of progressive structural and/or miscellaneous steel estimating, preconstruction, or related project experience preferred, including experience leading people or major pursuits.\nDemonstrated experience with conceptual estimating and design-build or design-assist project delivery.\nStrong understanding of structural steel detailing, fabrication, procurement, coatings, logistics, and erection.\nAbility to read and interpret architectural and structural drawings, specifications, contracts, and evolving design documents.\nStrong knowledge of steel cost drivers, labor productivity, fabrication methods, constructability, and 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