Job Information
Flowserve Corporation CIP Black Belt in Suzhou, China
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!
Role Summary
The CIP Black Belt will lead a consistent and rapid LEAN deployment, providing leadership for CI initiatives, assessing current business performance, identifying gaps, establishing and implementing improvement plans, monitoring progress, and sharing best-in-class ideas and processes. In this role, you will utilize CI to achieve and exceed business objectives and build plant confidence in the acceptance of change management and performance improvements while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction and the quality of performance.
Responsibilities
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 learn 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 initiativse are calculated according to corporate standards and are ultimately achieved within targeted time span
Ensure that planned improvements are implemented, measured, driven to closure and crossed to operating results
Other duties as assigned
Requirements & Preferred Experience / Skills:
Experience in an industrial manufacturing environment
Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or LEAN Certified
7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s/ Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)
Knowledge in statistics tools and problem solving
Able to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business
Excellent verbal, written and facilitation communication skills
Highly Proficient in the use of MS Office tools (Excel and PowerPoint in particular)
Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business
Demonstrated Change Management experience
Strong facilitation experience
An interest in process and quality improvement
BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 5-7 years relevant experience
Req ID : R-5785
Job Family Group : Logistics
Job Family : LO Continuous Improvement
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