CIP Black Belt

Role Summary:

The NAM Operational Excellence Leader will lead a consistent and rapid LEAN deployment providing leadership for CI initiatives assessing current business performance identifying gaps establishing and implementing improvement plans monitoring progress and sharing best-in-class ideas and this role you will utilize CI to achieve and exceed business objectives and build plant confidence in the acceptance of change management and performance improvements while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction and the quality of performance.

Responsibilities:

• Be the facility lead practitioner coach teacher trainer and consultant in developing supporting and leading CI culture within your site and across Flowserve as required

• Facilitate CI actions and employee involvement teams throughout the platform / site and across all functional areas in the pursuit of sustained beneficial change

• Implement a train-the-trainer approach and rapid sustained implementation through learn by doing methods

• Facilitate improvement implementation through employee teams CI events team improvement projects and LEAN Enterprise training workshops

• Provide local leadership coaching and training in LEAN thinking processes and production

• Co-create sustain revise and measure progress on the Business Area CI Plan that contributes to future state

• Focus teams on CI by involving people in meeting productivity and site / platform objectives

• Identify opportunities to implement common processes and best practices from other facilities within Platforms and across Flowserve

• Disseminate and act upon relevant industry and corporate benchmarking data

• Ensure that benefits related to CI initiatives are calculated according to corporate standards and are ultimately achieved within targeted time span

• Ensure that planned improvements are implemented measured driven to closure and crossed to operating results

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in engineering a Masters degree is preferred.

• 8-10 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment

• Six Sigma Black Belt Green Belt or LEAN Certified

• Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business

• Demonstrated Change Management experience

• Strong facilitation experience

• An interest in process and quality improvement

• Problem solving tools (Fishbone 5 Whys/ Ishikawa Pareto Analysis and Stratification)

• Knowledge in statistics tools and problem solving

• Able to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business

• Excellent verbal written and facilitation communication skills

• Highly Proficient in the use of MS Office tools (Excel and PowerPoint in particular)