Director, Fabrication

Reece•Carrollton, TX

About The Position

The Director, Fabrication provides strategic and operational leadership for Reece Plumbing fabrication capabilities. The role develops a safe, scalable, customer-focused fabrication model that improves execution for complex projects, strengthens branch and sales partnerships, and supports profitable growth. It sets direction across people, processes, technology, capacity, quality, service, and financial performance. The Director leads disciplined fabrication practices for pipe, fittings, assemblies, and custom components produced to approved technical drawings, specifications, dimensions, tolerances, and customer requirements. The position works across teams and locations to improve operations, technical capability, customer value, and financial results while building a safe, respectful, inclusive, and continuously improving environment.

Requirements

10 or more years of progressive experience in fabrication, manufacturing, construction operations, industrial services, trade distribution, or a related field.
5 or more years leading leaders, multi-site operations, or a function with significant operational and financial accountability.
Demonstrated experience improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, capacity utilization, and financial performance.
Experience reading and applying technical drawings, product specifications, dimensions, tolerances, work orders, inspection requirements, and production documentation.
Enterprise leadership connecting strategy, customers, operations, people, safety, quality, and financial outcomes.
Deep operational discipline in fabrication, manufacturing, preconstruction, industrial services, distribution, or a comparable production environment.
Strong working knowledge of technical drawings, blueprints, specifications, dimensions, tolerances, work orders, material flow, equipment controls, and quality documentation.
Practical experience with safety and quality systems, production planning, capacity management, preventive maintenance, root-cause problem solving, and continuous improvement.
Commercial judgment and ability to turn customer requirements into executable, manufacturable, and profitable solutions.
Financial and analytical acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, costing, KPI management, and business-case development.
Executive communication and influence across field leaders, support functions, customers, suppliers, and external partners.
People leadership grounded in clear expectations, coaching, accountability, technical development, and succession planning.

Nice To Haves

Experience in plumbing, mechanical, pipe fabrication, plastics fabrication, commercial construction, industrial distribution, or adjacent trade services.
Experience developing or scaling a fabrication network, center of excellence, or multi-location production model.
Familiarity with ERP, estimating, production planning, CAD/BIM, project management, quality, and business intelligence tools used in fabrication environments.
Bachelor's degree in operations, engineering, construction management, business, supply chain, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience is considered.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the Plumbing Division fabrication strategy in alignment with Reece growth priorities and customer needs.
Develop a scalable operating model that defines fabrication locations, work flow, and branch engagement with fabrication teams.
Identify opportunities to expand capabilities, improve speed to market, and increase Reece share with commercial, mechanical, residential, industrial, and specialty customers.
Build business cases and implementation plans for investments in equipment, facilities, technology, and talent.
Establish and maintain standard work for applicable fabrication methods, including cutting, drilling, sawing, welding, bending, assembly, finishing, testing, packaging, and material handling.
Ensure fabrication work meets approved drawings, blueprints, work orders, specifications, dimensions, tolerances, and customer requirements.
Build production planning, scheduling, labor management, workstation organization, equipment setup, preventive maintenance, and material-flow routines.
Create capacity and demand visibility to support reliable commitments, balanced workloads, proactive resource decisions, and on-time delivery.
Ensure teams follow safety requirements, environmental standards, PPE expectations, equipment procedures, and documented operating practices.
Build a first-time-quality culture through inspection controls, in-process checks, dimensional verification, test or sample welds, documented test results, and final product validation, as applicable.
Set escalation expectations for drawing questions, specification discrepancies, non-conforming material, equipment concerns, and quality issues.
Drive root-cause problem solving and corrective action to reduce defects, scrap, rework, warranty exposure, and customer disruption.
Ensure repairs and rework are completed through controlled, documented processes that protect product integrity and customer requirements.
Maintain appropriate technical capability across relevant materials and methods, including applicable plastic fabrication and welding involving PP, HDPE, PVDF, and PVC.
Partner with Sales, Branch Leadership, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and customers to translate project requirements into practical, manufacturable, and profitable fabrication solutions.
Define service standards for quoting, technical review, drawings, approvals, work orders, production updates, change management, delivery, and issue resolution.
Equip customer-facing teams with capability education and tools that communicate Reece's value through reliability, speed, accuracy, technical expertise, and quality.
Own escalation and recovery for significant fabrication service, quality, or execution issues.
Own fabrication financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, cost-to-serve visibility, and return on investment.
Establish estimating, costing, pricing support, and job-level performance reviews with Finance and Commercial leaders.
Use data to identify margin leakage, scrap, rework, expedite costs, equipment downtime, labor inefficiency, and underutilized capacity.
Define and review KPIs covering safety, quality, first-pass yield, on-time completion, lead time, productivity, labor, capacity utilization, scrap, rework, customer experience, and financial performance.
Build the organization, leadership routines, technical training, certifications, and capabilities needed for current operations and future growth.
Set expectations, coach performance, develop succession pipelines, and create career opportunities for fabrication team members.
Create cross-training plans that improve flexibility while ensuring employees work within demonstrated qualifications and required supervision levels.
Model accountability, teamwork, integrity, service, and continuous improvement, and foster a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment.