Continuous Improvement Leader
Flowserve
- Taneytown, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 learning 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 initiative are calculated according to corporate standards and are ultimately achieved within a targeted time span
- Ensure that planned improvements are implemented, measured, driven to closure and crossed to operating results
- Able to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business
- Other duties as assigned
- BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 3-5 years relevant experience
- Excellent leadership and management skills.
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s/ Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)
- Knowledge of statistics tools and problem-solving
- Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
- Commercially and financially aware.
- Background in manufacturing and/or engineering environment.
- Background in project management.