Fabrication & Production supervisor

Company Overview: Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together—creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow. **Role Summary** The Production Supervisor leads day-to-day operations within the fabrication shop and final packaging area, ensuring safe, efficient, high-quality production that meets customer delivery commitments. This role is responsible for supervising shop-floor personnel, coordinating production activities across work centers, managing performance metrics, and driving continuous improvement through Lean and operational-excellence practices. **Key Responsibilities** + Supervise fabrication shop and final packaging operations to achieve production, quality, safety, and on-time delivery targets. + Plan, prioritize, and schedule production activities across multiple work centers based on workload, capacity, material availability, and delivery commitments. + Assign daily work to shop employees according to skill level, certifications, workload, and production priorities. + Maintain and regularly update the shop-floor skill matrix; identify training needs and coordinate employee development activities. + Ensure compliance with Flowserve safety policies, safe work practices, and applicable environmental requirements. + Promote a strong safety culture by conducting regular safety discussions, identifying risks, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented. + Ensure production processes comply with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 requirements, including adherence to documentation, traceability, inspection, and record-retention procedures. + Monitor and manage key operational KPIs, including utilization, efficiency, productivity, scrap, rework, quality performance, and schedule adherence. + Analyze production losses, quality issues, and daily shop-floor constraints; implement corrective and preventive actions using structured problem-solving tools. + Drive Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence initiatives, including AMEF/FMEA, Value Stream Mapping, 5S/6S, SMED, standard work, visual management, and continuous-improvement activities. + Apply statistical process-control principles to monitor process performance, identify variation, and improve product quality. + Support inventory management activities, including material availability, WIP control, inventory accuracy, and coordination with planning and supply chain teams. + Ensure appropriate use of ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and other production-planning tools for reporting, scheduling, and daily operational management. + Review and interpret technical drawings, work instructions, manufacturing procedures, inspection plans, and customer specifications. + Ensure fabrication and assembly activities comply with applicable engineering and industry standards, including API 610, ASME, AWS, and other relevant requirements. + Support and oversee API and non-API pump manufacturing processes, ensuring that approved procedures and quality requirements are consistently followed. + Conduct training for shop employees on safety, quality, procedures, technical requirements, Lean practices, and standard work. + Partner with Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, and Maintenance teams to resolve operational issues and improve overall plant performance. + Perform other duties as assigned. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field. + Minimum 5–7 years of relevant manufacturing experience, including experience supervising shop-floor operations. + Demonstrated experience in fabrication shop operations and final packaging activities. + Working knowledge of CNC programming and machining/manufacturing processes. + Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous-improvement tools, including AMEF/FMEA, VSM, 5S/6S, SMED, and root-cause analysis. + Experience with production planning, capacity management, work-center scheduling, and inventory/WIP management. + Strong understanding of quality systems, process control, and ISO 9001/ISO 14001 requirements. + Familiarity with API 610, ASME standards, and preferably AWS welding standards. + Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, work instructions, and manufacturing procedures. + Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office applications, ERP systems, and Microsoft Project or comparable scheduling software. + Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and team-development skills. **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience in pump manufacturing, including API and non-API pump production processes. + Experience implementing Lean, Operational Excellence, or continuous-improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment. + Exposure to statistical process control, quality tools, and structured corrective-action methodologies. + Knowledge of welding, fabrication, assembly, testing, and packaging processes for industrial equipment. **Req ID** : R-20747 **Job Family Group** : Operations **Job Family** : OP Manufacturing Leadership EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. 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