Operational Excellence Leader - Lean & Continuous Improvement

Flowserve India Controls Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve India Controls Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru seeks an NAM Operational Excellence Leader to drive a rapid LEAN deployment, lead CI initiatives, and assess performance gaps. You will coach, train and enable cross-functional teams, ensuring improvements are implemented and measured to boost customer satisfaction and product quality.

The role requires 8-10+ years in industrial manufacturing, a Six Sigma Black Belt or LEAN certification, strong change management and facilitation skills, and advanced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8-10+ years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or LEAN Certification.
• Demonstrated Change Management experience.
• Strong facilitation experience.
• Excellent verbal, written and facilitation communication skills.
• Highly proficient in MS Office tools (Excel and PowerPoint in particular).

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.
• 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.

Skills

Six Sigma Black Belt

Lean Certification

Change Management

Facilitation

Project Management

Data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

MS Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

CIP Black Belt 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) Experience Level Senior Level