Director, Fabrication

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Purpose

Provides strategic and operational leadership for Reece Plumbing fabrication capabilities. This leader builds a safe, scalable, customer-focused fabrication model that improves execution for complex projects, strengthens branch and sales partnerships, and delivers profitable growth. The role sets direction across people, process, technology, capacity, quality, service, and financial performance while ensuring fabrication teams consistently deliver accurate, reliable solutions that make Reece easy to do business with.

This role leads the development of disciplined fabrication practices for pipe, fittings, assemblies, and custom components produced to approved technical drawings, specifications, dimensions, tolerances, and customer requirements.

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Key Responsibilities

Lead Fabrication Strategy & Growth

·         Own and evolve the Plumbing Division fabrication strategy in alignment with Reece growth priorities and customer needs.

·         Develop a scalable operating model that defines where fabrication capabilities should be located, how work should flow, and how branches engage in 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.

Drive Safe, Consistent Fabrication Operations

·         Establish and maintain standard work for fabrication methods such as cutting, drilling, sawing, welding, bending, assembly, finishing, testing, packaging, and material handling, as applicable to Reece operations.

·         Ensure fabrication work is completed to approved technical drawings, blueprints, work orders, specifications, dimensions, tolerances, and customer requirements.

·         Build disciplined production planning, scheduling, labor management, workstation organization, equipment setup, preventive maintenance, and material-flow routines.

·         Create capacity and demand visibility that supports reliable commitments, balanced workloads, proactive resource decisions, and on-time delivery.

·         Ensure fabrication teams consistently follow safety requirements, environmental standards, PPE expectations, equipment procedures, and documented operating practices.

Strengthen Quality & Technical Discipline

·         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.

·         Establish clear 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 plastic fabrication and welding applications involving PP, HDPE, PVDF, and PVC where applicable to the business.

Deliver Customer & Commercial Value

·         Partner with Sales, Branch Leadership, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and customers to translate project requirements into practical, manufacturable, and profitable fabrication solutions.

·         Define clear 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 reinforce Reece value through reliability, speed, accuracy, technical expertise, and quality.

·         Own escalation and recovery for significant fabrication service, quality, or execution issues.

Own Financial & Operational Performance

·         Own fabrication financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, cost-to-serve visibility, and return on investment.

·         Establish disciplined estimating, costing, pricing support, and job-level performance reviews in partnership 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 for safety, quality, first-pass yield, on-time completion, lead time, productivity, labor, capacity utilization, scrap, rework, customer experience, and financial performance.

Build People, Capability & Reece Culture

·         Build the organization, leadership routines, technical training, certifications, and capabilities needed to support current operations and future growth.

·         Set clear expectations, coach performance, develop succession pipelines, and create meaningful career opportunities for fabrication team members.

·         Create cross-training plans that strengthen flexibility across fabrication processes while ensuring employees perform work within demonstrated qualifications and required supervision levels.

·         Model accountability, teamwork, integrity, service, and continuous improvement while creating a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment.

Key Competencies and Skills Required

·                     10+ years of progressive experience in fabrication, manufacturing, construction operations, industrial services, trade distribution, or a related field.

·                     5+ 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.

·                     Experience in plumbing, mechanical, pipe fabrication, plastics fabrication, commercial construction, industrial distribution, or adjacent trade services is preferred.

·                     Experience developing or scaling a fabrication network, center of excellence, or multi-location production model is preferred.

·                     Familiarity with ERP, estimating, production planning, CAD/BIM, project management, quality, and business intelligence tools used in fabrication environments is preferred.

·                     Bachelor's degree in operations, engineering, construction management, business, supply chain, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered.

Minimum Qualifications

·                       Enterprise leadership with the ability to connect 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, quality systems, production planning, capacity management, preventive maintenance, root-cause problem solving, and continuous improvement.

·                     Commercial judgment and the ability to translate 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.

Our commitment to excellent customer service is just part of our story.  We’re also dedicated to supporting our most valuable asset, our associates! One of the ways we do this is by offering a variety of high-quality benefits for our associates and their families.

All full-time associates are eligible for the following benefits:

- Medical and Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO) - plus paid holidays
- Parental Leave

Voluntary benefits:

- Vision
- Long-term Disability
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Additional Voluntary Benefits through Corestream

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