Fabrication Director: P&L, Quality & Operations Leader

Total Safety U.S., Inc.; Deer Park (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Total Safety U.S., Inc. seeks a Director of Fabrication to lead estimating, QA/QC, safety, production, project execution, scheduling, material management, and workforce planning.

You will partner with Construction, Engineering, Project Management, and Finance to ensure safe, on-time, within-budget fabrication that meets client requirements. This role requires 10+ years in industrial fabrication with leadership, deep welding/piping/modular expertise, and a proven ability to drive margins,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in industrial fabrication, construction, manufacturing, or EPC operations.
• 5+ years in a significant fabrication leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing pipe fabrication and/or modular fabrication operations.
• Strong understanding of welding, fitting, piping, structural fabrication, modular assembly, and industrial construction.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, forecasts, labor productivity, and financial performance.
• Strong understanding of fabrication estimating and project controls.
• Experience managing multiple projects and competing production priorities.
• Strong leadership and organizational-development skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with craft employees, supervisors, project teams, clients, and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for the Fabrication Business Unit.
• Own and manage the fabrication facility's annual P&L, revenue, gross margin, overhead, and profitability targets.
• Develop annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and business objectives.
• Monitor backlog, revenue projections, shop loading, labor requirements, and capacity utilization.
• Establish and track key performance indicators for safety, quality, productivity, schedule, cost, and profitability.
• Identify opportunities to improve margins, productivity, throughput, and overall financial performance.
• Participate in strategic planning for growth of the company's fabrication capabilities and market presence.
• Ensure projects are properly planned, staffed, sequenced, and executed to meet delivery dates.
• Maintain visibility of shop capacity and develop production forecasts.
• Establish production goals and monitor performance against planned hours and production quantities.
• Drive improvements in labor productivity, workflow, material handling, equipment utilization, and shop layout.
• Coordinate production priorities across multiple projects and clients.
• Ensure fabrication activities are integrated with engineering, procurement, construction, and project schedules.
• Review and approve all fabrication estimates prior to executive review.
• Ensure estimates reflect labor productivity, material requirements, equipment, subcontracting, indirect costs, schedule requirements, and risk.
• Establish and maintain fabrication estimating standards, historical productivity data, and estimating metrics.
• Participate in bid reviews and major proposal decisions.
• Review estimate-to-actual performance and incorporate lessons learned into future estimates.
• Support development of competitive fabrication pricing while maintaining required margins and risk controls.
• Monitor project budgets, earned hours, actual hours, productivity, cost-to-complete, and forecasted margins.
• Review fabrication project financial performance regularly with Project Management and Finance.
• Ensure accurate forecasting of revenue, cost, and gross margin.
• Identify unfavorable cost or schedule trends early and implement corrective action.
• Monitor fabrication backlog and resource loading to ensure appropriate staffing and capacity.
• Develop measurable productivity standards for major fabrication activities.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Forecasting

Labor productivity

Fabrication estimating

Project controls

Pipe fabrication

Modular fabrication

ASME/Welding knowledge

Communication

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Total Safety U.S., Inc. seeks a Director of Fabrication to lead estimating, QA/QC, safety, production, project execution, scheduling, material management, and workforce planning.

You will partner with Construction, Engineering, Project Management, and Finance to ensure safe, on-time, within-budget fabrication that meets client requirements. This role requires 10+ years in industrial fabrication with leadership, deep welding/piping/modular expertise, and a proven ability to drive margins,