Company Overview:

　　If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

　　Role Summary:

　　The CIP Black Belt 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 processes. In 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.

　　This Flowserve site is part of AMSS division and one of the largest manufacturing facility within the AMSS NA division. This specific site supports several OEM customers, regional manufacturing QRC’s and international affiliates. This site makes highly engineered products that is high mix and low volume. Unit of lot is usually 1 or 2 orders, thus highly controlled production order tracking and visibility system. The Continuous Improvement Leader must exhibit a high level of technical competence, understanding of business processes and a thorough knowledge of lean tools and methodologies that relate to improvement in business functions such as supply chain, warehouse, production, inventory management, and planning. Further he/she will be driving Operational Excellence throughout all areas of manufacturing processes and business functions at the facility level while engaging the stakeholders. He or she will coach, lead, facilitate, and mentor Continuous Improvement activities utilize Flowserve Lean tools to identify opportunities, drive to root cause, engage stakeholders, and drive the project execution. He/she must be able to communicate with the wide audiences from shop floor to function managers and site leaders. He/she must possess strong teamwork attributes, ability to influences wide range of audiences. Responsible for facilitating kaizens and driving the results that directly impact Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and inventory KPI’s.

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

　　This is an on-site First shift position from Monday to Friday

　　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 initiativse 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 - Experience in an industrial manufacturing environment

　　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)

　　Other duties as assigned

　　Requirements:

　　BS or BA Degree in a relevant field

　　3 + years of relevant experience

　　Preferred Experience / Skills:

　　Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or LEAN Certified

　　7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s/ Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)

　　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

　　Experience using PDF suite is preferred

　　Req ID : R-8475

　　Job Family Group : Logistics

　　Job Family : LO Continuous Improvement

　　EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

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