NAM Operational Excellence Leader

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:

• BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 8-10 years relevant experience
• 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)

Preferred:

• Previous manufacturing experience
• Experience using PowerBI

Flowserve offers competitive pay annual bonuses medical benefits on day 1 generous paid vacation time paid holidays 401(k) and many other excellent benefits!