Lean & Continuous Improvement Leader

Flowserve; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 109,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve NAM in Raleigh, North Carolina seeks an Operational Excellence Leader to drive a rapid Lean deployment, lead CI initiatives, and assess performance to identify gaps. You will implement improvement plans, monitor progress, and share best-in-class ideas across the site to enhance customer satisfaction and product quality.

The ideal candidate has 8–10+ years in industrial manufacturing, Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean certification, strong facilitation and change-management skills, and the

Qualifications

• BS or BA Degree in a relevant field and 8-10+ years of relevant experience.
• 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 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
• 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

Skills

Six Sigma Black Belt

Lean Certification

Change Management

Facilitation

Problem Solving

Statistics Tools

MS Office (Excel)

PowerPoint

Cross-functional Collaboration

Communication Skills

Education

BS/BA Degree in relevant field

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

PowerBI

Job description

Flowserve NAM in Raleigh, North Carolina seeks an Operational Excellence Leader to drive a rapid Lean deployment, lead CI initiatives, and assess performance to identify gaps. You will implement improvement plans, monitor progress, and share best-in-class ideas across the site to enhance customer satisfaction and product quality.

The ideal candidate has 8–10+ years in industrial manufacturing, Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean certification, strong facilitation and change-management skills, and the