Operational Excellence Leader

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

This role will report directly to the Director Plant Manager of our new Torreon facility. The Operational Excellence Leader will serve as a Lean and Continuous Improvement expert, responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining CI practices across the site. This role will facilitate improvement projects, coach teams, and help embed a Lean mindset throughout the organization to deliver measurable business results in safety, quality, delivery and cost.

The Opportunity:
We are establishing a new manufacturing facility in Torreon, Mexico, that will play an important role serving customers across the Americas and enable future growth in the region. The CIP Blackbelt Specialist will play a key role in shaping a manufacturing site from the ground up. This role will lead Lean and Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives that will set the foundation for Operational Excellence, efficiency, and a culture of continuous learning. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on plant performance, drive process innovation, and contribute to building a best-in-class facility.

What Makes this a Great Opportunity:

• Join a globally recognized company that is at the forefront of its industry, with a strong commitment to sustainability and innovation.
• Opportunity to establish the standards and practices that will drive success for this site
• This role offers a rare blend of hands-on operational work and strategic influence, giving you visibility, impact, and growth opportunities

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the site's Lean and CI practitioner, coach, and trainer. Building CI capabilities and culture across all levels.
• Facilitate Kaizen events, root cause analysis, and value stream mapping session to identify and remove waste.
• Lead cross-functional CI projects aligned with business priorities and operational performance goals.
• Drive engagement with continuous improvement through employee training and "train-the-trainer" programs.
• Measure progress against the site's Business Area CI Plan and ensure alignment with Flowserve standards.
• Share best practices across other facilities and platforms to drive consistency and knowledge transfer.
• Quantify, validate, and report improvement results and savings to ensure sustainability.
• Use Lean tools such as 5 Why's, Ishikawa Diagramns, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, and Process Mapping.
• Partner closely with operations, engineering, and leadership to ensure CI plans deliver measurable results.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or Lean Certification required.
• 8-10 years of relevant experience, ideally in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Proven record of facilitating cross-functional improvement projects and delivering results.
• Strong change management experience and ability to influence without authority.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite (Excel and PowerPoint in particular); Minitab experience preferred.
• Experience using data visualization and CI reporting tools

Preferred:

• Advanced degree is preferred.

Compensation:

• We offer a competitive compensation package including benefits and potential for performance-based incentives.

Relocation:

• We are open to discussing relocation support for qualified candidates.

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-17749

Job Family Group
: Logistics

Job Family
: LO Continuous Improvement

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