CIP Black Belt

Flowserve Chile S.p.A.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve Chile S.p.A. seeks an NAM Operational Excellence Leader to spearhead a rapid LEAN deployment across sites. You will drive CI initiatives, assess performance, identify gaps and implement improvement plans with a focus on customer satisfaction and quality of results.

You will coach teams, lead cross-functional CI events, and measure benefits against corporate standards to ensure sustained changes across the platform and Flowserve.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Master’s preferred).
• 8–10+ years in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or LEAN certification.
• LEAN/Operational Excellence is core to the business.
• Strong change management experience.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Proficient in Fishbone, 5 Whys, Pareto, Stratification.
• Statistical tools and problem solving knowledge.
• Able to work with all functional areas and levels.
• Strong verbal and written communication; MS Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the facility lead practitioner and coach for CI culture at the site.
• Facilitate CI actions and cross-functional teams across the platform.
• Implement train-the-trainer methods for rapid CI deployment.
• Lead improvement projects and LEAN workshops.
• Provide leadership and training in LEAN thinking and production.
• Co-create and measure progress on the Business Area CI Plan.
• Drive productivity and site objectives through CI.
• Identify opportunities to share best practices across Flowserve.
• Disseminate benchmarking data and ensure benefits tracking.
• Ensure improvements are implemented, measured, and tied to results.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Lean / Operational Excellence

Six Sigma

Change Management

Facilitation

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

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 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.

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a Master's degree is preferred.
• 8-10+ years of 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 Why’s/ 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)