Value Stream Configuration Specialist

Natural Gas Solutions North America Llc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Natural Gas Solutions North America Llc is seeking a Value Stream Product Specialist in Houston to own configuration, translate customer requirements into buildable products, and ensure right‑first‑time manufacturing across the value stream.

You will validate orders, manage BOMs, support engineering changes, and coordinate with engineering, supply chain, quality, and customer service to deliver compliant production with minimal defects.

Qualifications

• Translate customer requirements into complete, accurate, and buildable product configurations for right‑first‑time manufacturing.
• Review and validate work orders to ensure alignment with specifications and internal requirements, preventing errors and rework.
• Identify discrepancies and drive resolution with stakeholders before production begins.
• Define, maintain, and control product configurations with correct parameters and test requirements.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing operations for accurate builds.

Responsibilities

• Own the translation of customer requirements into complete, accurate, and buildable product configurations to support right‑first‑time manufacturing.
• Review and validate all work orders prior to release to ensure alignment with customer specifications, historical configurations, and internal requirements, preventing errors and rework.
• Identify discrepancies, missing information, or non‑standard requirements and drive resolution with customer service, engineering, or other stakeholders before production begins.
• Define, maintain, and control product configurations, ensuring all parameters, features, and test requirements are correctly established and executed on the manufacturing line.
• Provide direct technical support to manufacturing operations, ensuring operators have clear and accurate guidance to execute builds in accordance with customer requirements.
• Serve as the technical authority within the value stream for configuration, product definition, and customer‑specific requirements during production.
• Maintain and validate BOM accuracy, ensuring correct parts, revisions, and structures are reflected in production orders.
• Support engineering change management by implementing customer requirement changes and ensuring updates are reflected across configurations, BOMs, and released work orders.
• Verify material readiness for upcoming production, identify risks to supply or shortages, and coordinate with procurement to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing flow.
• Coordinate cross‑functionally with engineering, supply chain, quality, and customer service to ensure alignment between customer requirements and production execution.
• Support the customer complaint process by participating in root cause analysis, driving corrective actions, and ensuring issues tied to product configuration or documentation are resolved and do not recur.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by analyzing production issues, historical data, and customer feedback to strengthen configuration processes and reduce defects and variation.

Skills

Product configuration

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Attention to detail

Quality and process discipline

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Associate degree considered

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Natural Gas Solutions North America Llc is seeking a Value Stream Product Specialist in Houston to own configuration, translate customer requirements into buildable products, and ensure right‑first‑time manufacturing across the value stream.

You will validate orders, manage BOMs, support engineering changes, and coordinate with engineering, supply chain, quality, and customer service to deliver compliant production with minimal defects.