What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025 Internship position at RNGD?
About the Company
RNGD (a Palmisano Company) 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 business throughout the Southeast region with additional teams currently in Nashville and Huntsville.
About the Role
Launch your career with RNGD! As a Project Engineer Intern, you’ll gain hands-on experience and support our project teams in delivering outstanding results. Learn the ropes from seasoned professionals and contribute to exciting projects. Bonus: You'll get the chance to collaborate with fellow interns on a special internship project throughout your time with us!
Internship Experience Opportunities
- Collaborate: Work with project plans and management to ensure smooth execution.
- Review Bids: Evaluate contractor proposals to select the best partners.
- Ensure Safety: Maintain a safe and organized work environment.
- Submittals: Review shop drawings, product data, and other project submittals for conformance with plans and specs. Process, coordinate, and distribute submittals in a timely manner, maintaining a log to expedite critical items.
- Schedules: Assist in developing the baseline CPM with the Superintendent and Project Manager, track progress weekly, and update schedules monthly. Quantify project impacts and manage notice provisions.
- Buy-out: Conduct buy-out, issue subcontracts for assigned scopes of work, and perform job cost allocation for subcontract and purchase order awards.
- RFIs: Process and log RFIs from Forma/subcontractors, coordinate responses, and provide timely notice of any cost/time impacts.
- Changes to the Work: Identify and provide timely notice of changed conditions, prepare Change Order Proposals (COPs), maintain a COP log, generate subcontract modifications, and update as-built drawings.
- Coordination: Assist the Superintendent with subcontractor and supplier coordination, expedite material deliveries, and identify special inspection requirements.
- Payment: Help develop the Schedule of Values, compile data for monthly payment applications, assist in reviewing subcontractor/supplier payments, and ensure proper cost coding of invoices.
- Punchlist: Create and distribute punchlists for incomplete/deficient work, follow up with subcontractors, and secure project acceptance by the architect and owner.
Preferred Qualifications
- Academic Focus: Engineering or Construction Management majors preferred.
- Tech Skills: Strong computer skills, Procore experience a plus.
- Proactive Attitude: Willingness to learn and adapt in a dynamic setting.
