Engineering & Productization Manager – Fabrication & Manufacturing

About Loenbro Loenbro is a trusted, long-term construction lifecycle partner to thousands of customers across the U.S. Our market spans all industries and our service offerings include Critical Electrical, Mechanical & Structural, Soft Crafts, Inspection, Underground Maintenance and Installation, and Fabrication. Our expertise lies in simplifying the complex and establishing long-standing relationships with our partners. We have a national presence but a local approach—every customer benefits from our capabilities and our care. At Loenbro, we don't just offer jobs—we build careers grounded in integrity, teamwork, excellence, and purpose. Join a team where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work helps expand the reach of the critical infrastructure that powers communities across the nation. Job Summary The Engineering & Productization Manager is responsible for converting market demand and project opportunities into standardized, repeatable, and commercially viable fabricated and manufactured solutions that advance Loenbro's transformation from project-specific fabrication toward a scalable manufacturing platform. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, this role leads the technical development and productization of fully integrated modular solutions for Loenbro's targeted end markets. The Manager will establish strategic working relationships with engineering and packaging firms, developers, owners, general contractors, EPCs, OEMs, technology providers, and internal Loenbro operating groups to identify recurring needs, shape basis-of-design requirements, and create solutions optimized for off-site manufacturing and field installation. The position will be the technical integrator for Loenbro's hub-and-spoke manufacturing model, with repeatable products and modules engineered for final assembly, integration, testing, and shipment through designated manufacturing hubs, while components and subassemblies are allocated to spoke facilities wherever capability, capacity, quality, logistics, and economics support the work. The successful candidate will combine engineering leadership, design management, product-development discipline, manufacturing knowledge, commercial judgment, and strong external relationship skills — moving concepts through design, validation, pilot production, standard release, configuration control, and continuous improvement. Essential Job Responsibilities Productization Strategy & Portfolio Development Develop and execute an engineering and productization roadmap aligned with Loenbro's Fabrication & Manufacturing strategic plan, growth priorities, available capabilities, and targeted end markets. Identify recurring customer needs, project scopes, assemblies, and system configurations suitable for standardization, modularization, cataloging, and repeatable production. Prioritize product-development investments using market demand, strategic customer pull, addressable volume, margin, capacity utilization, technical feasibility, capital needs, and speed to market. Maintain a stage-gate portfolio from opportunity and concept through business case, engineering, prototype, validation, commercialization, standard release, and lifecycle management. Strategic Partnerships & Early Market Engagement Develop strategic relationships with engineering and packaging firms, developers, owners, hyperscalers, general contractors, EPCs, OEMs, technology providers, and other partners capable of accelerating standardized modular solutions. Lead technical engagement in design-assist, early contractor involvement, basis-of-design development, constructability workshops, and product-definition sessions. Establish clear partnership models addressing responsibilities, intellectual property, design ownership, licensing, exclusivity, confidentiality, engineering liability, and continuous improvement. Represent Loenbro's technical and productization capabilities in customer presentations, industry forums, conferences, and strategic partner meetings, translating partner and customer insight into actionable product requirements. Integrated Modular Solution Development Lead development of fully integrated modular systems combining mechanical, piping, structural, electrical, controls, equipment, insulation, testing, and other disciplines as applicable. Create repeatable solutions including electrical prefabrication assemblies, electrical and mechanical skids, cooling and liquid-cooling assemblies, modular piping systems, pipe racks, utility modules, power packages, and process modules. Define module boundaries, battery limits, interfaces, connection strategies, transportation envelopes, lifting concepts, installation sequencing, commissioning approach, and turnover requirements. Coordinate multidisciplinary design reviews and resolve interface risks before release to procurement and manufacturing, ensuring solutions address total installed cost and lifecycle value. Hub-and-Spoke Manufacturing Integration Develop engineering and work-allocation strategies that enable final integration and testing at designated hubs while distributing components and subassemblies to capable spoke facilities. Partner with Operations and project leadership to map facility capabilities, capacity, labor, equipment, certifications, geography, logistics, and cost to product work breakdown structures. Design products with clear manufacturing breakdown structures, standardized interfaces, controlled tolerances, kitting requirements, quality hold points, and assembly instructions that support multi-facility execution. Recommend make/buy and hub/spoke allocation decisions and develop repeatable handoff, packaging, shipping, and traceability requirements for work moving between facilities. Engineering Management & Design Governance Plan, lead, and coordinate internal and external engineering resources, including discipline engineers, designers, BIM/VDC personnel, consultants, and specialty partners. Establish design criteria, engineering execution plans, deliverable registers, schedules, budgets, reviews, approval workflows, and responsibility matrices. Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, standards, contractual requirements, professional-practice obligations, customer specifications, and Loenbro quality systems. Manage outsourced engineering performance, scope, schedule, cost, and quality, and ensure appropriate professional review, stamping, and jurisdictional compliance through qualified engineering entities. Design for Manufacturing & Assembly Embed Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) principles in products to simplify fabrication, reduce part count and labor, improve repeatability, enable automation, and minimize field work. Standardize materials, components, connections, joint configurations, dimensional schemes, equipment selections, controls interfaces, and fabrication processes where beneficial. Partner with the Welding & Process Improvement Manager, Quality, Supply Chain, shop leadership, and craft subject-matter experts to ensure designs match production capabilities and improvement roadmaps. Facilitate design-to-cost, value-engineering, constructability, and production-readiness reviews before design release, using production and field feedback to continually improve standard designs. Prototype, Validation & Production Readiness Plan and lead prototypes, mockups, pilot builds, first-article production, factory acceptance testing, and product validation activities. Define measurable acceptance criteria for performance, quality, safety, manufacturability, cost, cycle time, installation, commissioning, and repeatability. Document lessons learned, resolve design and process issues, and complete formal production-readiness reviews before scalable release. Establish controlled work instructions, inspection and test plans, tooling requirements, training materials, and quality records with Operations and Quality, confirming that capacity, supply chain, and skills support forecast demand. Configuration, Intellectual Property & Lifecycle Management Establish product data management, document control, naming, revision, release, configuration, and change-control standards for repeatable products. Maintain approved product baselines, option matrices, bills of material, design libraries, standard details, calculations, models, and manufacturing documentation. Prevent uncontrolled project customization and ensure deviations are technically reviewed, commercially understood, approved, and captured for future learning. Work with Legal and leadership to identify, protect, license, and appropriately use Loenbro and partner intellectual property, and manage product obsolescence, supplier changes, and end-of-life decisions. Commercialization & Cross-Functional Execution Partner with Business Development to connect customer demand to the product roadmap and support technical selling, strategic pursuits, and account development. Partner with Estimating, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to develop target costs, standard labor assumptions, pricing inputs,