Specialist Continuous Improvements

Specialist Continuous Improvements

Tamil Nadu, IND

• ID: R-19894
• Job Category: Operations
• Job Type: Full time

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Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together—creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow.

Role Summary

This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible benefits to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results.

Responsibilities

• Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets.
• Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects.
• Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives.
• Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results)
• Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups.
• Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results.
• Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation.
• Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields.
• Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams
• Accountability & Authority
• Achieving savings as targeted by platform.
• Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant.
• Monitor, track, and report project status
• Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required.
• Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives
• Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements

Requirements

• Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI.
• Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing.
• Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time
• Knowledge on Assembly & Testing
• Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T)
• Knowledge on SAP / ERP
• Lean tools & applications -
• Practitioner of Lean tools including VSM (Value Stream Mapping), OFP Operations Flow Process, Material-flow, Structured problem-solving methodology, OEE, Product-process / machinery matrix, Activity analysis, Future state design, Lean Layouts, FIFO, Kitting process, Shop Floor Management & Office floor management
• 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)
• 6S Improvements
• Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business.
• Experience in Power BI dashboard development
• Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business
• Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills.
• Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business.
• Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization
• Demonstrated Change Management Experience
• Strong Facilitation

Experience

• Instructional Design is a plus.

• QMS & EMS knowledge

• Six Sigma or LEAN Certified

• LI-AS1

• Req ID : R-19894

• Job Family Group : Operations

• Job Family : OP Manufacturing Engineer

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• Flowserve is a global leader in flow control solutions and aftermarket services. Our people are driven by a shared commitment to building a more sustainable future and making a meaningful impact around the world. With more than 16,000 employees across 50+ countries, we combine global scale with strong local expertise. Our teams bring ingenuity, creativity, and technical excellence to every challenge, delivering innovative products and services that help customers operate more efficiently and reliably. Serving over 10,000 customers worldwide, Flowserve supports industries that provide essential resources such as energy, clean water, pharmaceuticals, and more. Put your talents—and your career—in motion with Flowserve.