Lean Leader - Global Engineering Processes & Procedures

Company Overview:

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Position Summary :

The Lean Leader - Global Engineering Processes & Procedures will serve as the central leader for advancing lean engineering capabilities across multiple global engineering organizations, product families, and facilities. This individual will drive the execution, expansion, and long-term sustainability of our engineering lean transformation program.

The role requires a strong balance of technical lean expertise, leadership influence, facilitation capability, organizational development, and strategic roadmap deployment. The successful candidate will work directly with global engineering leaders, Green Belts, sponsors, and site leadership teams to improve engineering efficiency, reduce waste, standardize processes, strengthen collaboration, and mature engineering operational excellence systems globally.

This individual will inherit a strong lean foundation already established and will help shape the future strategy, systems, and maturity of the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with global engineering leadership teams to deploy and sustain lean engineering initiatives across all facilities and product families.

• Lead the continued evolution of the global engineering lean strategy and multi-year lean transformation roadmap.

• Facilitate alignment between engineering leaders, sponsors, Green Belts, and site teams on priorities, execution, and strategic objectives.

• Serve as the central point of leadership for engineering operational excellence initiatives globally.

• Lead and deploy Lean Methodologies & Continuous Improvement methodologies

• Lead and mentor the global engineering Green Belt program across all facilities.

• Lead the global deployment of Engineering Processes & Procedures by maintaining and expanding process maps across regions and product families

• Lead the best practice sharing program by driving cross-site collaboration, enabling benchmarking through performance metrics, and supporting organizational learning through cross-training, technical capability development, and skills/competency frameworks.

• Continued development and deployment of Lean Dashboard & KPI Management

• Establish actionable KPI reporting structures for leadership review and strategic decision-making.

• Lead bi-weekly reviews of lean initiatives, engage leadership, address roadblocks and resources, and drive accountability for execution and roadmap progress across all sites.

• Support development and deployment of a Lean Maturity Assessment framework globally.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related technical discipline.

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience leading lean transformation initiatives within engineering and/or manufacturing organizations.

• Demonstrated experience deploying lean methodologies in global engineered-to-order environments.

• Strong facilitation and leadership capability across cross-functional and global organizations.

• Strong communication and organizational influence skills.

• Ability to travel internationally as required.

Preferred :

• Lean Master Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent.

• Experience working within global engineering organizations.

• Experience deploying digital daily management systems.

• Experience mentoring Green Belts and continuous improvement leaders.

• Experience in engineering maturity assessment frameworks and operational excellence systems.

• This role can be based at any Flowserve office across multiple regions and is open to candidates in a variety of locations

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.

Req ID : R-19360

Job Family Group : Operations

Job Family : OP Production Process Management

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