Director of Finance, Fabrication & Manufacturing

Loenbro•Dallas, TX

12h

About The Position

The Director of Finance for Loenbro’s Fabrication & Manufacturing (F&M) team serves as the senior financial business partner to the SVP of Manufacturing. The role establishes the financial foundation, operating discipline, and decision-support structure needed to operate F&M as a centralized, stand-alone P&L business. It partners across Manufacturing, Operations, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Project Controls, Estimating, Supply Chain, and other functions to establish transparent, repeatable financial methods for revenue recognition, cost assignment, overhead allocation and absorption, intercompany charging, facility economics, profitability, forecasting, and management reporting. The Director supports Loenbro’s manufacturing transformation and growth strategy through analysis of capacity expansion, capital deployment, productization, external-market growth, facility decisions, partnerships, acquisitions, and other investments. The role develops financial visibility and KPI frameworks for utilization, margin, cash generation, return on invested capital, and manufacturing-network economics. Its scope may expand to provide financial leadership, governance, and business-building support for additional centralized or emerging Operations business lines. The position combines FP&A and accounting fundamentals with operational finance, commercial judgment, manufacturing and project-costing knowledge, capital-allocation discipline, and a builder mentality. It is based in Dallas, Texas for onboarding, with remote, hybrid, or onsite arrangements noted as open. The role involves a combination of office or remote work and regular travel to manufacturing facilities and operating locations, approximately 20–30% based on business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
At least 10 years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, operational finance, project controls, accounting, or related business-finance leadership roles.
Experience supporting manufacturing, fabrication, construction, industrial services, EPC, or another project-based operating environment.
Experience establishing, managing, or materially supporting business-unit P&Ls and developing cost structures in complex operating environments.
Strong understanding of job and manufacturing costing, overhead allocation and absorption, utilization, burden rates, margin analysis, and project financial controls.
Experience in budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and executive financial modeling.
Experience developing CAPEX business cases and evaluating ROI, payback, NPV, and investment tradeoffs.
Strong commercial and analytical judgment connecting operational decisions to margin, cash flow, capital efficiency, and enterprise value.
Proficiency with ERP, project-controls, business-intelligence, and financial-reporting systems, with advanced spreadsheet and financial-modeling capability.
Ability to operate effectively in an evolving environment where processes, systems, reporting structures, and organizational boundaries are being established and standardized.
Strong executive communication, cross-functional leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability and willingness to travel to Loenbro manufacturing and operating locations as required.
Ability to build finance capabilities for a new business unit, carve-out, centralized shared operation, or stand-alone P&L.
Compliance with applicable safety regulations, PPE requirements, and Loenbro EH&S policies when visiting facilities and job sites.

Nice To Haves

MBA or another relevant advanced degree and/or CPA or CMA credential.
M&A, quality-of-earnings, due-diligence, valuation, acquisition-integration, or corporate-development experience.
Experience in private-equity-backed, high-growth, or transformation environments.
Knowledge of fabrication, modular construction, electrical prefab, manufacturing operations, shop loading, inventory, supply chain, and capacity planning.
Experience with product costing, standard costing, configure-to-order or engineer-to-order manufacturing, and product-line profitability.
Experience developing executive dashboards and operational-finance KPI frameworks using business-intelligence tools.
Experience supporting multi-site operations, facility rationalization, greenfield expansion, or manufacturing-network optimization.

Responsibilities

Establish F&M as a centralized, stand-alone P&L business in partnership with the SVP of Manufacturing and cross-functional stakeholders.
Lead the financial carve-out and baseline assessment of F&M operations, including revenue, labor, materials, equipment, facilities, shared services, and indirect costs.
Establish methodologies for cost allocation, intercompany and interdivision charges, transfer pricing, overhead recovery, shared-service allocations, and idle-capacity treatment.
Develop cost-center, profit-center, project, facility, customer, and product-level financial structures and reporting.
Ensure the F&M financial model aligns with corporate policies, internal controls, revenue-recognition requirements, and period-close standards.
Own budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and financial analysis for F&M; develop integrated models, rolling forecasts, scenario analyses, and variance reporting.
Develop business cases for products, customers, markets, facilities, technologies, and manufacturing initiatives, and support multi-year strategic planning.
Establish facility cost transparency and standardized costing methodologies across fabrication, prefab, modular assembly, and future product lines.
Provide visibility into productivity, labor, materials, equipment, freight, facility costs, rework, scrap, quality costs, and other cost drivers.
Partner with Operations and Project Controls to improve project cost forecasting, estimate-at-completion accuracy, change management, estimating feedback, and margin protection.
Analyze margin leakage, inefficiencies, underutilized assets, sourcing choices, and capacity decisions.
Develop and maintain an integrated financial and operational KPI scorecard, standardize KPI definitions and data sources, and lead recurring performance reviews.
Analyze revenue, margins, EBITDA contribution, backlog, pipeline, facility and labor utilization, overhead absorption, productivity, working capital, cash conversion, and return on invested capital.
Lead CAPEX analysis and business-case development; evaluate ROI, payback, NPV, capacity impact, labor savings, strategic value, and execution risk.
Support facility expansion, consolidation, rationalization, greenfield development, and capacity decisions; conduct post-investment reviews and help prioritize capital.
Evaluate acquisitions and other inorganic growth opportunities, including financial performance, quality of earnings, valuation, strategic fit, synergies, due diligence, integration, and post-close results.
Partner with Business Development, Estimating, Operations, and Manufacturing on pricing, bids, customer programs, transfer pricing, product costing, target margins, and productization.
Support financial analysis for strategic markets and standardized mechanical, electrical, skid, modular, and integrated M&E solutions.
Partner with Operations, IT, Project Controls, Supply Chain, and Corporate Finance on ERP/MRP, reporting, forecasting, inventory, procurement, shop-loading, and data architecture.
Establish common financial master data, coding, definitions, reporting standards, controls, and ownership of source data; automate reporting and analysis where practical.
Advise the SVP of Manufacturing and F&M leadership, translate results into operational and strategic actions, challenge assumptions, and build financial acumen across the organization.
Develop and lead finance, FP&A, project-controls, or analytical resources as the business scales, while maintaining alignment with Corporate Finance.
Support financial frameworks and stand-alone P&Ls for additional centralized or emerging Operations business lines, including their incubation, commercialization, acquisition, and integration.