Steve Childs
Celebrating a lifetime career
Steve Childs has tapped pause on a career in the precast concrete industry spanning four decades to spend a little time with family, friends, and collections of baseball cards and coins. His immediate plans are to spend more time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren and tell stories of a career that has no end in sight.
At the end of January, Steve moved on from almost 20 years with TurnerCo where he introduced drycast manholes, boxes, and pipe.
TurnerCo grew quickly from a well-known wetcast producer and installer in Rhome to a major supplier of wetcast and drycast concrete products throughout the Texas Triangle and surrounding states. The company opened a second production facility in Lockhart near Maxwell in 2020.
Steve has a large boot-print in Texas having worked with most of the major concrete pipe, manhole, and box producers in various capacities. His expertise in plant operations and management took him to other states with extended periods far from home. Steve spent approximately 20 years with Gifford Hill and Hanson, eventually managing four plants in South Texas. He also managed a region for Oldcastle in Philadelphia. Before joining TurnerCo, Steve consulted with concrete pipe companies throughout the United States resulting in productive plants and strong relationships with producers in the industry.
Steve began his career path when he was 17, studying management at Illinois College and operating the family business, Standard Concrete Pipe in Springfield, IL. That experience was the foundation of his lengthy career in the precast concrete industry.
