Lean Leader

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:** As the Lean Leader for Global Engineering Processes & Procedures, you will be responsible for the strategic development and implementation of lean practices to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and productivity among our 300+ engineers, spread across 10 global engineering teams working on five distinct product families. **Key Responsibilities:** + Develop and implement a unified framework for global engineering processes and procedures, ensuring alignment with the organization's vision and goals. + Establish world-class SIPOC flows and value stream maps for each business and product family, identifying areas for improvement and driving the elimination of non-value-added activities. + Collaborate with global engineering leaders, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and lean thinking across the organization. + Document and streamline order engineering workflows, analyzing existing processes and identifying opportunities for optimization and synergy creation. + Train and mentor employees to enhance cross-collaboration between product families and teams, enabling the sharing of best practices and knowledge transfer. + Monitor and report on key performance indicators related to lean initiatives, ensuring progress toward established targets and adjusting strategies as needed. + Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in lean methodologies, incorporating them into the organization's strategies where appropriate. **Qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical/Industrial Etc), a Master's degree is preferred. + 5-10 years of experience in lean process improvement, with a focus on engineering and manufacturing environments. + Proven track record in developing and implementing lean practices, driving continuous improvement, and achieving significant productivity gains. + Strong understanding of global engineering processes, value stream mapping, and SIPOC analysis. + Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence diverse teams and stakeholders. + Ability to travel internationally as needed to collaborate with global engineering teams. + Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent certification is strongly preferred. \#LI-JP1 **Req ID** : R-20822 **Job Family Group** : Engineering **Job Family** : EN Project Engineer 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 If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.