Engineering Manager

Job
Exempt

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We're more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We're a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we're leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

The Engineering Manager leads a small team of Product Engineers focused on the design, enhancement, and commercialization of Oldcastle Infrastructure's product lines across multiple brand categories.

This role is ideal for a technically strong engineer with leadership experience who can balance hands‑on technical oversight with team development and cross‑functional coordination. In addition to driving day-to-day engineering execution, this position will drive special and strategic engineering initiatives that support customer requirements, unlock commercial opportunities, and advance key business priorities. The Engineering Manager will strengthen collaboration across engineering, operations, and commercial teams to ensure timely delivery of high‑quality product designs that meet business, regulatory, and customer expectations.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to guide engineering output, manage workload planning, and support the full product lifecycle. They will have a proven track record of taking products from concept through commercial release, while continuously seeking to improve processes and drive efficiency.

• This position will be hybrid at our Sweetwater, TN facility.

• Supervise, mentor, and coach Product Engineers, including onboarding, skill development, and performance feedback.
• Assign and balance daily and weekly engineering tasks to ensure efficient execution and professional growth within the team.
• Conduct regular design and analysis reviews, providing technical direction and developmental feedback.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and growth‑oriented team culture.
• Support recruiting efforts, including interviewing, and evaluating candidates.
• Oversee execution of product design, design change management, prototyping, testing, validation, and regulatory approval activities.
• Take the engineering lead of strategic projects driven by customer needs, market opportunities, or commercial goals, ensuring high‑visibility initiatives are executed with clarity and speed.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
  
  Serve as a technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges including simulation, design analysis, manufacturability, and testing.
• Lead and support product development efforts using a stage‑gate process, ensuring structured progress from concept to commercial release.
• Coordinate engineering documentation as needed including SKU creation, bills of materials, part numbers, design specifications, CAD models, and PDM/Vault records.
• Utilize and support the use of ERP systems for SKU setup, BOM development, and configuration accuracy.
• Partner with Operations to support production readiness, tooling development, and process optimization.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Service, and Marketing to provide elevated technical support for customer inquiries, proposals, and pre‑/post‑sales activities.
• Improve engineering workflows, design standards, simulation accuracy, and documentation quality.
• Identify and champion opportunities for innovative technologies, product improvements, and innovation across product categories.
• Apply and promote lean principles, contributing to efficiency improvements, waste reduction, and process discipline across engineering.
• Attend customer meetings, job sites, trade events, and industry engagements to provide technical expertise and gather product feedback.
• Gather customer input to inform product improvements and new product opportunities.
• Support existing product approvals and guide…