Specialist Continuous Improvements

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:** This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible benefits to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results. **Responsibilities:** + Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets. + Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects. + Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives. + Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results) + Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups. + Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results. + Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation. + Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields. + Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams **Accountability & Authority** + Achieving savings as targeted by platform. + Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant. + Monitor, track, and report project status + Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required. + Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives + Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements **Requirements:** + Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI. + Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing. + Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time + Knowledge on Assembly & Testing + Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T) + Knowledge on SAP / ERP + Lean tools & applications - + Practitioner of Lean tools including VSM (Value Stream Mapping), OFP Operations Flow Process, Material-flow, Structured problem-solving methodology, OEE, Product-process / machinery matrix, Activity analysis, Future state design, Lean Layouts, FIFO, Kitting process, Shop Floor Management & Office floor management + 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification) + 6S Improvements + Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business. + Experience in Power BI dashboard development + Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business + Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills. + Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business. + Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization + Demonstrated Change Management Experience + Strong Facilitation Experience: Instructional Design is a plus. + QMS & EMS knowledge + Six Sigma or LEAN Certified \#LI-AS1 **Req ID** : R-19894 **Job Family Group** : Operations **Job Family** : OP Manufacturing Engineer EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. 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