We are inspired by our purpose
Together, we create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone.
We are led by our values
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People
Trust and value each other.
Develop each other, embrace differences, respect one another, and create a collaborative culture. The collective energy of our people sets us apart from our competitors.
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Safety
Create safe work places and products for our employees, customers and communities.
Embrace Flowserve’s safety rules and hold each other accountable. We do this for ourselves, our customers, our partners and the communities we serve.
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Integrity
We do the right thing, always.
Act ethically and transparently towards associates, customers and shareholders, in accordance with the Flowserve Code of Conduct. Be consistently open, honest and trustworthy.
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Innovation
Be empowered with a mindset to do things differently.
Take risks and learn from mistakes. Leverage and expand our knowledge to bring the best products and services to market. Achieve this through creativity, modernization and ingenuity.
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Ownership
Be accountable for your commitments, and do what is best for our company and customers.
Take the initiative to own your work, and follow through on your commitments to achieve results that are beyond what is expected.
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Excellence
Show passion for continuous improvement.
Perform ambitiously with dedication and enthusiasm to deliver outstanding products, services and business results.
People
Trust and value each other.
Develop each other, embrace differences, respect one another, and create a collaborative culture. The collective energy of our people sets us apart from our competitors.
Safety
Create safe work places and products for our employees, customers and communities.
Embrace Flowserve’s safety rules and hold each other accountable. We do this for ourselves, our customers, our partners and the communities we serve.
Integrity
We do the right thing, always.
Act ethically and transparently towards associates, customers and shareholders, in accordance with the Flowserve Code of Conduct. Be consistently open, honest and trustworthy.
Innovation
Be empowered with a mindset to do things differently.
Take risks and learn from mistakes. Leverage and expand our knowledge to bring the best products and services to market. Achieve this through creativity, modernization and ingenuity.
Ownership
Be accountable for your commitments, and do what is best for our company and customers.
Take the initiative to own your work, and follow through on your commitments to achieve results that are beyond what is expected.
Excellence
Show passion for continuous improvement.
Perform ambitiously with dedication and enthusiasm to deliver outstanding products, services and business results.
We are driven by our behaviors
- We work together with an enterprise mindset
- We deliver beyond our customer expectations
- We take action and learn from mistakes
- We trust and respect each other
- We think safe and work safe
- We embrace and drive change
- We act with integrity, always
We are proud of our impact
Making the World Better for Everyone
Flowserve supplied gas seals and associated panels to Enertime, a turbine manufacturer. Our products will be used in an energy recovery turbine – these turbines use excess pressure in the gas pipeline to drive a generator and create electricity. This innovative solution is a direct contribution to driving energy efficiency and conservation – helping make the world better for everyone.
Our pumps are being used in Calysseo's new FeedKind® production facility – the first of its kind in China. FeedKind is a protein family made up of sustainable and traceable feed ingredients for fish, livestock and pets. The production process uses no agricultural land and relatively little water, helping meet the world's ever-increasing need for more food without placing more stress on scarce resources.
Flowserve is more than just the products we make and the services we provide – we are committed to serving our communities. Through our community impact programs, Flowserve Cares, we teamed up with Social Impakt to deliver ceramic water filters to rural communities in Bali helping improve their access to clean drinking water.
Flowserve's vacuum pumps are being used in Kanghui's production of PBS (Polybutylene Succinate), a biodegradable plastic. Biodegradable plastics not only help reduce our level of waste, but they also potentially reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions, consume less energy and reduce carbon emissions – providing an alternative product for global sustainability efforts.
A variety of Flowserve pumps are being used in the Everglades Restoration Plan, one of the largest environmental restoration projects in the world. Our pumps are helping store algae laden water from Lake Okeechobee in a 16-billion-gallon reservoir for future cleanups and preventing any harmful runoff. By helping restore our environment, we can help make the world better for generations to come.
Flowserve provided pumps, valves and seals from North America and Europe to support Pfizer's mass production of its COVID-19 vaccine, helping slow the spread of COVID-19.
Through Flowserve Cares and our partnership with United Way, we’ve been able to provide vital COVID-19 relief materials across India during their fight against COVID-19. We provided “family kits” that contained food, medicine and safety equipment, vital medical supplies, as well as oxygen concentrators and a 'vaccine van' that is used to transport COVID-19 vaccines and syringes to those who can't reach vaccination centers.
Following a historic snowstorm in Texas in early 2021, crippling much of the state's infrastructure, Flowserve responded to our customers' needs by deploying our people and leveraging our QRCs across North America to minimize plant down-time and expedite a safe return to operations – helping bring power back to Texas.
Flowserve is dedicated to providing a safe workplace for our employees, demonstrated by our more than 2,400 National Safety Council Awards over the last 30 years and operating with historicaly low workplace accident rates.
We are also dedicated to creating safe communities. Our focus on environmental protection has led to reductions in solvent emissions, solid waste and hazardous waste generation at Flowserve facilities around the world. In addition, our employees remain committed to supporting the communities where they live and work through monetary contributions and volunteer efforts.
Flowserve's community impact program, Flowserve Cares, incorporates monetary donations, in-kind contributions and volunteer opportunities to help make a meaningful impact in the communities where our employees and customers live and work. Local sites are encouraged to select organizations that they can support in order to maximize the impact and drive employee involvement. Learn more about our community impact program: Flowserve Cares.
Hear from our employees
Wayne Blair
Pasadena, TX, USA
Although Wayne Blair is an expert machinist and welder, leading global teams toward solutions for our customers is where he really excels. Wayne’s leadership journey began in the U.S. Navy where he spent 11 years building the skills that have defined his career today. When he joined Flowserve, he found an opportunity to use his military values to guide impactful, global projects.
“My military experience gave me a real passion for building leaders and guiding them to become excellent problem solvers. I love the world of machinery and to work for a company that recognizes the importance of that work, that is the best inspiration. I enjoy the dynamic nature of managing 10 Quick Response Centers across North America. Everyday there are multiple solutions to be explored at each site and supporting my teams in delivering for our customers is rewarding.”
Before Flowserve, Wayne started and managed several machine shops. In the almost 5 years he’s served at Flowserve, he has continued to build on his experience by taking on four different roles, learning and growing from each role. This accomplishment is something he is very proud of.
“My favorite thing about working for Flowserve is that I get to network with a global team. I have met people all over the world who I have been able to call on for their expertise and support when needed. I love the team spirit you feel no matter which part of the world you are working with.”
Casey Chandler
Bridgeville, PA, USA
From a young age, Casey dreamed of becoming an electrician. Casey won a Christmas tree in elementary school and was shocked when he plugged it into the wall. His parents were concerned, but for him it unlocked a lifelong interest in electricity!
Casey enjoys working with his hands to diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical projects. “I love taking things apart and putting them back together. I’m curious about how things work, and I have always fixed my own machines. Part of my job is working as a mechanic and the other part is being an electrician, so I can see the stages of how something is created.”
He gets to accomplish his projects each day alongside a team that enjoys working together and supporting each other. Casey has been fortunate to have mentors but also lead critically important work for Flowserve.” We respect each other at work and are there to help each other. We have open communication, and we use our experience to help motivate each other.”
Outside of Flowserve Casey is a successful bowler. Traveling with his bowling leagues exposed him to different parts of the U.S. and ultimately brought him to Pennsylvania.
Dale Christensen
Hastings, NE, USA
Dale has nearly 20 years of experience as a Machinist at Flowserve. He was first referred to Flowserve by a friend and in the time since he has become an expert in the role and now trains others on site.
“I’m inspired each day by working with a machine product I truly enjoy alongside a great team. I run both horizontal and vertical lathe machines daily, and my proudest accomplishment is learning to run CNC lathes.”
Dale supports the Machinists onsite in improving their skills and delivering products that exceed our customers’ expectations.
Jayce VandeGiessen
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Jayce started his Flowserve career at just 16-years-old when he joined his high school’s co-op program. He joined Flowserve full-time once he graduated and continues to build his expertise in machining. Mastering new challenges each day has inspired Jayce to grow in his career with Flowserve. He recently transitioned from machining to a role in maintenance.
"What keeps me going each day is the challenge of something new. I get to create new parts, simplify how we make parts, and figure out how to improve the tools we use. As a machinist, I worked on setting up tooling for all the jobs that are run with my machines. Now that I am in maintenance, my job is to make sure our machines are capable of what they need to do."
Jayce serves as a backup lead on-site to a large team. He credits the mentors at his facility with helping him build his work ethic and always has fun with the group he works with.
Margie Lewis
Lynchburg, VA, USA
With 20 years at Flowserve, Margie Lewis brings deep expertise to our Lynchburg, VA, valves operation. In her role as a Precision Assembler, she collaborates with her peers, supervisors and engineers to build actuators and assemble parts orders.
“With each unit that I build, I challenge myself to deliver beyond customer expectations with quality products. In my role I also troubleshoot units to find solutions for the best way to assemble the product,” said Margie.
On a typical day, Margie’s toolbox consists of hammers, drills, a press, and air guns. No matter the task, she lives Flowserve’s Ownership value by being accountable and doing what is best for our customers.
Kanagavel Mathivanan
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
For Kanagavel, stepping into his role at Flowserve was the realization of his goal to build a career in the mechanical design field. Bringing innovation to life from concept to final product motivates Kanagavel to be a part of the Flowserve team and deliver beyond our customers’ expectations each day.
Through the years, Kanagavel has built his product knowledge to apply across several different industries. Finding ways to apply his expertise to develop new solutions fuels his passion for the work that he leads.
“One of the most significant projects I have led consisted of upgrading 12 pumps from single mechanical-seal to dual-seal to meet environmental guidelines. I was the Project Engineer on the team and partnered closely with Design Engineers and Production. The project was completed on time and resulted in one of the proudest moments in my career.”
Adjan Matthijssenn
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
In the 10 years Adjan has been a part of the Flowserve team, he has found excitement and motivation in learning to work across several industries from oil and gas to renewables and water. Through Flowserve’s extensive training opportunities, Adjan has been able to sharpen his skills and grow in his role.
“My role is focused on general assembly activities like balancing, hydrotesting and torqueing equipment. We have an effective team at our site and our work changes from day to day. In fact, many colleagues have helped shape my career. One of my proudest accomplishments was working as a team to turn around a customer request in a matter of days."
Elvis Nditafon
Mezzago, Italy
For Elvis Nditafon, “it is a joy to work for an organization that values and encourages innovation.” Such an environment is well-suited for engineers like Elvis who dare to reimagine the impossible. Elvis first became interested in automation of engineering analyses over a decade ago, a concept that was at one time deemed impossible. Ten years later, he says that “seemingly impossible engineering automation may indeed be complex but is simply a case where it has yet to be done. Creativity and innovation may be required in the process of automation, but it should not be thought impossible simply because it has never been done.”
Elvis was recently able to set his passions for automation of engineering analyses into motion when our team in Mezzago, Italy determined there was a need to reduce finite element analysis lead times for leakage simulations. After several discussions, Elvis and the team decided it would be most beneficial to develop an automated analysis application that addresses common ball valve analysis needs. The application was designed for ease of expansion and the ability to accommodate standardiz and non-standard engineering designs. The result of this innovation is consistent, high-quality analyses, reduction in cost, error and lead time. There is also the added benefit of providing engineers the freedom to focus on more critical tasks that bring value to Flowserve. All of these benefits are passed directly to our customer. The success of the application is only getting started as Elvis hopes to expand the application to include other processes and with automated reports.
Elvis has emphasized that such a successful innovation would not have come to fruition without the collaboration between the teams involved. “The importance of collaboration across engineering functions cannot be overlooked. Collaboration is essential to ensuring full utilization of the differing skills, knowledge, and experience of team members, and usually results in faster completion of projects with more innovative solutions to problems.”
Sarah Purawic
IGNITE, USA
From a young age, Sarah Purawic had a knack for creativity and critical thinking to solve problems. “Math and science were always my favorite subjects. I would ask for 101 Science Experiment books and spend all day in the kitchen trying to carry them out.” With her father being a mechanical engineer, Sarah knew she wanted to enter the family business.
When she began exploring opportunities to jumpstart her career after graduating from Penn State in 2019, Sarah was intrigued by Flowserve’s early career development program, IGNITE. IGNITE offers a robust curriculum, three-year rotational program in different regions across different business functions and diverse project assignments. Sarah says she was not only attracted to the opportunity to fast track her career, but also to Flowserve’s values as an organization.
Sarah has worked on several projects ranging from material, quality and process code standardization to her most recent, an initiative focusing on cross-alignment and change management across Flowserve for several new enterprise tools. “As part of a change campaign, I’ve assembled a team to create videos explaining the needs and benefits of the new systems in a fun, creative way. The film is called Enterprise Endeavor, a superhero movie where Enterprise Mindset, the hero, needs to introduce new tools and standards to save Flowserve from Misalignment.” Sarah’s creative work on this specific project is not only directly impacting Flowserve’s strategy, but also allowing Sarah to utilize her skillset and exercise her passions in a professional setting.
Now in her third year of IGNITE, Sarah feels that her diverse experiences and projects have provided her “the best understanding of Flowserve in three years and the opportunity to develop [herself] as a team member and leader.” We are proud to offer development opportunities to young leaders at Flowserve, just like Sarah.
Teofilo Del Prete
Marcianise, Italy
For Teofilo, Flowserve has been in his family as long as he remembers. His father worked at Flowserve for 40 years before Teofilo followed in his footsteps and joined the team 18 years ago.
Teofilo finds his work compelling and challenging. "What I love about my job is to physically see the transformation of a raw piece, into a finished product that is able to exceed the expectations of the customer." One of his favorite moments on the job was the 40th anniversary celebration of Flowserve’s Marcianise Site. Families were encouraged to come and visit the company and after Teofilo finished giving tours he said his son told him “Dad, I'm proud of you.” That day he realized that he had taken the right path and that Flowserve would be his future.
Teofilo says he is inspired to come into work every day because of "the awareness that in my own small way I am doing something to make the world a better place."
Wayne Blair
Pasadena, TX, USA
Although Wayne Blair is an expert machinist and welder, leading global teams toward solutions for our customers is where he really excels. Wayne’s leadership journey began in the U.S. Navy where he spent 11 years building the skills that have defined his career today. When he joined Flowserve, he found an opportunity to use his military values to guide impactful, global projects.
“My military experience gave me a real passion for building leaders and guiding them to become excellent problem solvers. I love the world of machinery and to work for a company that recognizes the importance of that work, that is the best inspiration. I enjoy the dynamic nature of managing 10 Quick Response Centers across North America. Everyday there are multiple solutions to be explored at each site and supporting my teams in delivering for our customers is rewarding.”
Before Flowserve, Wayne started and managed several machine shops. In the almost 5 years he’s served at Flowserve, he has continued to build on his experience by taking on four different roles, learning and growing from each role. This accomplishment is something he is very proud of.
“My favorite thing about working for Flowserve is that I get to network with a global team. I have met people all over the world who I have been able to call on for their expertise and support when needed. I love the team spirit you feel no matter which part of the world you are working with.”
Casey Chandler
Bridgeville, PA, USA
From a young age, Casey dreamed of becoming an electrician. Casey won a Christmas tree in elementary school and was shocked when he plugged it into the wall. His parents were concerned, but for him it unlocked a lifelong interest in electricity!
Casey enjoys working with his hands to diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical projects. “I love taking things apart and putting them back together. I’m curious about how things work, and I have always fixed my own machines. Part of my job is working as a mechanic and the other part is being an electrician, so I can see the stages of how something is created.”
He gets to accomplish his projects each day alongside a team that enjoys working together and supporting each other. Casey has been fortunate to have mentors but also lead critically important work for Flowserve.” We respect each other at work and are there to help each other. We have open communication, and we use our experience to help motivate each other.”
Outside of Flowserve Casey is a successful bowler. Traveling with his bowling leagues exposed him to different parts of the U.S. and ultimately brought him to Pennsylvania.
Dale Christensen
Hastings, NE, USA
Dale has nearly 20 years of experience as a Machinist at Flowserve. He was first referred to Flowserve by a friend and in the time since he has become an expert in the role and now trains others on site.
“I’m inspired each day by working with a machine product I truly enjoy alongside a great team. I run both horizontal and vertical lathe machines daily, and my proudest accomplishment is learning to run CNC lathes.”
Dale supports the Machinists onsite in improving their skills and delivering products that exceed our customers’ expectations.
Margie Lewis
Lynchburg, VA, USA
With 20 years at Flowserve, Margie Lewis brings deep expertise to our Lynchburg, VA, valves operation. In her role as a Precision Assembler, she collaborates with her peers, supervisors and engineers to build actuators and assemble parts orders.
“With each unit that I build, I challenge myself to deliver beyond customer expectations with quality products. In my role I also troubleshoot units to find solutions for the best way to assemble the product,” said Margie.
On a typical day, Margie’s toolbox consists of hammers, drills, a press, and air guns. No matter the task, she lives Flowserve’s Ownership value by being accountable and doing what is best for our customers.
Interested in joining the Flowserve team? You can learn more and apply to our open roles on FlowserveCareers.com! #Flowserve #CareerSpotlight
Kanagavel Mathivanan
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
For Kanagavel, stepping into his role at Flowserve was the realization of his goal to build a career in the mechanical design field. Bringing innovation to life from concept to final product motivates Kanagavel to be a part of the Flowserve team and deliver beyond our customers’ expectations each day.
Through the years, Kanagavel has built his product knowledge to apply across several different industries. Finding ways to apply his expertise to develop new solutions fuels his passion for the work that he leads.
“One of the most significant projects I have led consisted of upgrading 12 pumps from single mechanical-seal to dual-seal to meet environmental guidelines. I was the Project Engineer on the team and partnered closely with Design Engineers and Production. The project was completed on time and resulted in one of the proudest moments in my career.”
Adjan Matthijssenn
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
In the 10 years Adjan has been a part of the Flowserve team, he has found excitement and motivation in learning to work across several industries from oil and gas to renewables and water. Through Flowserve’s extensive training opportunities, Adjan has been able to sharpen his skills and grow in his role.
“My role is focused on general assembly activities like balancing, hydrotesting and torqueing equipment. We have an effective team at our site and our work changes from day to day. In fact, many colleagues have helped shape my career. One of my proudest accomplishments was working as a team to turn around a customer request in a matter of days."
Elvis Nditafon
Mezzago, Italy
For Elvis Nditafon, “it is a joy to work for an organization that values and encourages innovation.” Such an environment is well-suited for engineers like Elvis who dare to reimagine the impossible. Elvis first became interested in automation of engineering analyses over a decade ago, a concept that was at one time deemed impossible. Ten years later, he says that “seemingly impossible engineering automation may indeed be complex but is simply a case where it has yet to be done. Creativity and innovation may be required in the process of automation, but it should not be thought impossible simply because it has never been done.”
Elvis was recently able to set his passions for automation of engineering analyses into motion when our team in Mezzago, Italy determined there was a need to reduce finite element analysis lead times for leakage simulations. After several discussions, Elvis and the team decided it would be most beneficial to develop an automated analysis application that addresses common ball valve analysis needs. The application was designed for ease of expansion and the ability to accommodate standardiz and non-standard engineering designs. The result of this innovation is consistent, high-quality analyses, reduction in cost, error and lead time. There is also the added benefit of providing engineers the freedom to focus on more critical tasks that bring value to Flowserve. All of these benefits are passed directly to our customer. The success of the application is only getting started as Elvis hopes to expand the application to include other processes and with automated reports.
Elvis has emphasized that such a successful innovation would not have come to fruition without the collaboration between the teams involved. “The importance of collaboration across engineering functions cannot be overlooked. Collaboration is essential to ensuring full utilization of the differing skills, knowledge, and experience of team members, and usually results in faster completion of projects with more innovative solutions to problems.”
Teofilo Del Prete
Marcianise, Italy
For Teofilo, Flowserve has been in his family as long as he remembers. His father worked at Flowserve for 40 years before Teofilo followed in his footsteps and joined the team 18 years ago.
Teofilo finds his work compelling and challenging. "What I love about my job is to physically see the transformation of a raw piece, into a finished product that is able to exceed the expectations of the customer." One of his favorite moments on the job was the 40th anniversary celebration of Flowserve’s Marcianise Site. Families were encouraged to come and visit the company and after Teofilo finished giving tours he said his son told him "Dad, I'm proud of you.” That day he realized that he had taken the right path and that Flowserve would be his future.
Teofilo says he is inspired to come into work every day because of "the awareness that in my own small way I am doing something to make the world a better place."
Sarah Purawic
IGNITE, USA
From a young age, Sarah Purawic had a knack for creativity and critical thinking to solve problems. “Math and science were always my favorite subjects. I would ask for 101 Science Experiment books and spend all day in the kitchen trying to carry them out.” With her father being a mechanical engineer, Sarah knew she wanted to enter the family business.
When she began exploring opportunities to jumpstart her career after graduating from Penn State in 2019, Sarah was intrigued by Flowserve’s early career development program, IGNITE. IGNITE offers a robust curriculum, three-year rotational program in different regions across different business functions and diverse project assignments. Sarah says she was not only attracted to the opportunity to fast track her career, but also to Flowserve’s values as an organization.
Sarah has worked on several projects ranging from material, quality and process code standardization to her most recent, an initiative focusing on cross-alignment and change management across Flowserve for several new enterprise tools. “As part of a change campaign, I’ve assembled a team to create videos explaining the needs and benefits of the new systems in a fun, creative way. The film is called Enterprise Endeavor, a superhero movie where Enterprise Mindset, the hero, needs to introduce new tools and standards to save Flowserve from Misalignment.” Sarah’s creative work on this specific project is not only directly impacting Flowserve’s strategy, but also allowing Sarah to utilize her skillset and exercise her passions in a professional setting.
Now in her third year of IGNITE, Sarah feels that her diverse experiences and projects have provided her “the best understanding of Flowserve in three years and the opportunity to develop [herself] as a team member and leader.” We are proud to offer development opportunities to young leaders at Flowserve, just like Sarah.
Jayce VandeGiessen
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Jayce started his Flowserve career at just 16-years-old when he joined his high school’s co-op program. He joined Flowserve full-time once he graduated and continues to build his expertise in machining. Mastering new challenges each day has inspired Jayce to grow in his career with Flowserve. He recently transitioned from machining to a role in maintenance.
"What keeps me going each day is the challenge of something new. I get to create new parts, simplify how we make parts, and figure out how to improve the tools we use. As a machinist, I worked on setting up tooling for all the jobs that are run with my machines. Now that I am in maintenance, my job is to make sure our machines are capable of what they need to do"
Jayce serves as a backup lead on-site to a large team. He credits the mentors at his facility with helping him build his work ethic and always has fun with the group he works with.