Senior Director, Manufacturing

.At Delta Faucet, we are committed to transforming everyday experiences with water through innovative products and exceptional service. As a leader in the plumbing industry, we take pride in our dedication to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our mission to create solutions that inspire and elevate the lives of all our customers. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us on this journey toward inclusivity and excellence.

Your Role at Delta Faucet

Delta Faucet Company (DFC) is seeking a Senior Director, Manufacturing to lead multiple manufacturing sites, including DFC-owned facilities and select third-party manufacturing partners. This role is accountable for driving manufacturing strategy and performance across assigned sites, delivering step-change improvements in cost, productivity, safety, and quality. The Senior Director leads operational and capability transformation within their scope by advancing automation, digital manufacturing, and AI-enabled tools, while developing future-ready operating models and workforce capabilities aligned to enterprise standards.

Reporting to the Vice President of Manufacturing, this leader delivers results through site leadership while partnering closely with HR, Finance, IT, PMO, and Supply Chain Services, and influences broader enterprise decisions to ensure manufacturing objectives are aligned with business priorities.

Travel: 50%+ domestic and international.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance across a diverse, domestic manufacturing footprint, encompassing multiple U.S.-based production sites.
• Develop and execute manufacturing strategies aligned to enterprise objectives; translate strategy into operating plans and measurable outcomes.
• Lead business-unit transformation, including Lean, continuous improvement, automation, analytics, digital manufacturing, and global standardization.
• Foster a future-ready manufacturing culture by driving adoption of data, analytics, and AI-enabled decision support, and partnering with HR to upskill leaders and frontline teams for new ways of working.
• Own network-level cost and productivity performance using data-driven management systems, standard work, and rigorous problem solving.
• Set the safety and quality standard across the network, ensuring consistent systems, compliance, and partner performance to DFC expectations.
• Build and develop high-performing manufacturing leaders; partner with HR to strengthen engagement, retention, and succession across the network.
• Support M&A activity by providing manufacturing due diligence, capacity and cost assessments, and integration planning input.

Lead manufacturing integration efforts post-acquisition, including operating model alignment, system and process standardization, talent integration, and delivery of deal value commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field (Masters preferred).
• 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience; high complexity, multi-site responsibility strongly preferred.
• Proven success developing and leading Lean-based enterprise transformation with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including P&L ownership and capital strategy/investment decisions.
• Distribution and/or fulfillment leadership experience preferred.
• Experience supporting M&A activity, including manufacturing due diligence, integration planning, and execution across acquired or divested operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and deliver results during complex integrations and enterprise change.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging data, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve manufacturing decision-making, performance, and workforce effectiveness, including leading upskilling or change adoption across teams.

Leadership Attributes

• Results-driven, analytically rigorous, and highly data-focused.
• Strong business financial acumen with Deep continuous improvement and Lean mindset
• Forward-looking leader who anticipates future manufacturing, AI-enabled, and workforce capability needs
• Influential, enterprise-level leadership
• Balances long-term strategy with hands-on execution
• Resilient, adaptable, and effective in complex global environments

Why Join Us?

At Delta Faucet Company, our people are our greatest assets. We value different perspectives and fostering an inclusive environment. Youll have the opportunity to shape the future of our brand, working alongside passionate professionals committed to excellence and innovation. Join us to lead progressive growth and make a significant impact within a leading organization.

Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Culture: Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
• Social Impact: Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.

Company: Delta Faucet Company

Full time

Hiring Range: $166,000.00 - $260,700.00 USD

Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.

Delta Faucet Company (the Company) is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Companys policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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