rngd

rngd

Structural Systems Architect

Metairie, Louisiana

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
LogisticsAutoCADStructural AnalysisLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationRevit

About the role

  • Unlike traditional engineering roles, this position emphasizes ownership, constructability, and real-world performance-ensuring structural systems are not only technically sound, but optimized for manufacturing, logistics, and installation.
  • System Ownership and Technical Leadership
  • Set direction for structural system strategy, ensuring alignment with project goals and delivery approach.

Responsibilities

  • This role operates within RNGD's design-build environment, leading structural decision-making from early concept through fabrication and field execution.
  • The Structural Systems Architect works across disciplines to drive alignment between design intent and execution, shaping how projects are delivered through RNGD's Renegade Delivery Method.
  • Own structural systems from concept through fabrication and field installation.
  • Serve as the technical authority for structural design decisions across assigned projects.
  • Drive accountability for structural system performance, constructability, and integration.
  • Design Integration and Execution
  • Lead the development of structural systems across steel, concrete, wood, and foundation design.
  • Support execution of conceptual design packages, feasibility studies, and proposal efforts.
  • Partner with field teams and fabrication partners to validate design decisions in real-world conditions.
  • Embed structural sequencing, tolerances, and installation requirements into design deliverables.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering.
  • Ten or more years of experience in structural engineering within building or design-build environments.
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
  • Strong understanding of structural systems including steel, concrete, wood, and foundations.
  • Proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, RISA or similar structural analysis tools, and digital coordination platforms.
  • Strong communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.
  • Builder mindset with a focus on execution, ownership, and results.
  • Core Competencies

Skills

  • Renegade Mentality
  • Sweep Floors
  • Build Together
  • Honor Promises
  • Systems Thinking
  • Understands interactions between structure, MEP, architecture, and construction.
  • Optimizes systems holistically rather than in isolation.
  • Technical Authority
  • Serves as the go-to expert for structural system decisions.
  • Applies deep technical knowledge to guide project direction.
  • Maintains accountability for system performance and outcomes.
  • Constructability Focus

Company info

  • 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.
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