Director of Quality - Fabrication & Manufacturing

About Loenbro Loenbro is a trusted, long-term construction lifecycle partner to thousands of customers across the U.S. Our market spans all industries and our service offerings include Critical Electrical, Mechanical & Structural, Soft Crafts, Inspection, Underground Maintenance and Installation, and Fabrication. Our expertise lies in simplifying the complex and establishing long-standing relationships with our partners. We have a national presence but a local approach—every customer benefits from our capabilities and our care. At Loenbro, we don't just offer jobs—we build careers grounded in integrity, teamwork, excellence, and purpose. Join a team where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work helps expand the reach of the critical infrastructure that powers communities across the nation. Job Summary The Director of Quality - Fabrication & Manufacturing is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the enterprise quality strategy across Loenbro's Fabrication & Manufacturing network. This position will establish a consistent, scalable quality management framework supporting mechanical and pipe fabrication, structural fabrication, electrical prefab, modular assembly, and future manufactured products across Loenbro facilities. A primary initial responsibility will be conducting a comprehensive assessment of existing facility certifications, code qualifications, quality programs, procedures, personnel qualifications, inspection capabilities, and customer-specific requirements. The Director will use this assessment to establish a fleet-wide certification and quality strategy aligned with Loenbro's target markets, facility specialization, and long-term manufacturing strategy. The Director will lead the transition from predominantly project-specific quality control toward a proactive manufacturing quality model centered on first-time quality, error prevention, standardized processes, measurable performance, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. The role will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Project Management, Welding and Process Improvement, Safety, Estimating, Supply Chain, Business Development, project teams, and customers to ensure consistent quality delivery. The Director will also develop quality plans and strategies supporting new products, manufacturing processes, facilities, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and expansion into new end markets, while serving as a senior customer-facing quality leader capable of confidently articulating Loenbro's quality systems, capabilities, certifications, controls, and continuous-improvement philosophy. Essential Job Responsibilities Enterprise Quality Strategy & Governance • Develop and implement a standardized Fabrication & Manufacturing quality strategy across Loenbro's manufacturing network. • Establish enterprise quality standards, policies, procedures, governance, and minimum requirements across mechanical, structural, electrical prefab, modular assembly, and manufactured-product operations. • Transition the organization toward a prevention-based manufacturing quality model focused on building quality into the process rather than relying primarily on final inspection. • Define quality roles, responsibilities, accountability, escalation processes, and standardized expectations across facilities and projects. • Develop a scalable quality framework capable of supporting Loenbro's growth from project-based fabrication into repeatable manufacturing. Certification & Qualification Strategy • Conduct a comprehensive assessment and gap analysis of existing certifications, accreditations, code stamps, welding qualifications, procedures, inspection capabilities, personnel qualifications, and facility-specific quality programs. • Develop and maintain a centralized certification and qualification matrix across all Fabrication & Manufacturing facilities. • Establish a fleet-wide certification strategy defining which certifications and qualifications should be maintained, expanded, consolidated, or added at individual facilities. • Align certification investments with facility specialization, customer requirements, target markets, and Loenbro's hub-and-spoke manufacturing strategy. • Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable AWS, ASME, AISC, NEC/NFPA, UL, ISO, customer-specific, and other relevant requirements as applicable to Loenbro's work. • Establish governance for welder qualifications, welding procedures, inspection personnel qualifications, calibration programs, and required quality records. • Develop the quality-system roadmap required to support increasingly regulated and technically demanding markets, including future nuclear/NQA-1 capability where aligned with Loenbro's strategy. First-Time Quality & KPI Management • Develop and maintain a standardized Fabrication & Manufacturing quality scorecard focused on first-time quality, error prevention, trend visibility, and accountability. • Track weld reject and repair rates, weld first-pass acceptance, NDE rejection rates, rework hours and cost, scrap, dimensional and fit-up nonconformances, drawing/fabrication errors, NCRs, corrective-action closure and recurrence, customer issues, supplier quality, punch-list deficiencies, electrical prefab defects, testing failures, first-pass yield, cost of poor quality, and quality-related schedule impacts. • Establish leading indicators in addition to traditional lagging quality metrics. • Create dashboards that provide leadership visibility into performance by facility, project, product, process, welder, supplier, and other relevant dimensions. • Benchmark facilities and processes to identify best practices, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities. Mechanical, Welding & Structural Quality • Partner closely with Welding and Process Improvement leadership to establish consistent welding quality standards across the fabrication network. • Monitor weld reject rates, repair rates, NDE performance, welder performance, WPS adherence, consumable controls, and recurring defect trends. • Ensure appropriate welding procedures, qualifications, documentation, inspection requirements, material traceability, dimensional control, coatings, and testing requirements are maintained. • Establish quality controls for structural fabrication, skids, racks, modular assemblies, equipment integration, and related manufactured products. • Identify systemic fabrication and welding issues and implement corrective and preventive actions across affected facilities. Electrical Prefab Quality • Partner with Electrical Prefab leadership to establish appropriate quality controls for electrical assemblies and manufactured products. • Develop standardized inspection, testing, documentation, traceability, and acceptance requirements appropriate to the type and complexity of electrical prefab being produced. • Establish metrics addressing assembly errors, wiring and termination defects, dimensional issues, testing failures, labeling/documentation deficiencies, and field rework attributable to prefab. • Support standardized work instructions, inspection points, testing protocols, and product acceptance criteria as electrical prefab evolves toward increasingly standardized and productized solutions. Quality Planning & New Product Introduction • Develop quality plans for major projects, new products, new manufacturing processes, and new end markets. • Participate early in productization and design-development activities so quality requirements are incorporated into product and manufacturing-process design. • Establish inspection and test plans, hold/witness points, acceptance criteria, documentation requirements, traceability, and turnover packages as appropriate. • Participate in design reviews, constructability reviews, manufacturing-readiness reviews, and new-product introduction processes. • Identify potential failure modes before production and est