Director, Manufacturing Technology

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.

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!

The Director of Manufacturing Technology is at the forefront of driving technological innovation and efficiency in our manufacturing on a global scale – responsible for the development and execution of a strategic roadmap enabling advanced manufacturing and materials handling equipment, processes, and infrastructure to meet Flowserve’s business goals for operational efficiency and cost structure and to support our global manufacturing footprint strategy. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our manufacturing technology and process strategies align with the overarching goals of the business.

The Director of Manufacturing Technology will report directly to the Vice President of Global Engineering within the Global Operations Excellence organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage a diverse and geographically dispersed team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, best practice sharing, and innovation.
• Act as a strategic visionary in the Digital Manufacturing space, both establishing potential for further improvements, opportunities for optimization of existing initiatives and ongoing accountability monitoring of results benefits versus commitment as well as understanding tactical execution.
• Partner with the business to build and execute Enterprise manufacturing strategic roadmaps that are aligned with business strategies and highlight opportunities for transforming the business by embracing advanced technology capabilities.
• Drive a culture within the Manufacturing Technology team based on customer focus, ethics, and a strong commitment to Flowserve values.
• Build a flexible digital manufacturing strategic framework that can be utilized across the enterprise to support plug and play advanced technologies for simplifying and standardizing OT/IT integration processes and strategy
• Develop and lead digital focused cross functional teams which embrace technologies and improve processes that increase performance, quality, and safety metrics within the manufacturing facilities
• Lead efforts to integrate automation and digital transformation of manufacturing processes to enhance agility, speed, and productivity across our core manufacturing activities.
• Develop and deploy an enterprise strategy for the standardization of our CAM tools and processes including transitioning to off-line programming and us of centralized teams for NC programming.
• Drive the ongoing standardization of equipment, tooling, and processes.
• Maintain a database of all manufacturing equipment across the Flowserve landscape and establish a catalog of preferred standard equipment for all applicable processes to manage the conversion to preferred equipment.
• Ensure alignment with operations leaders and other key stakeholders to proposed Manufacturing Technology initiatives through strong collaboration with all, effective evaluation of BU, platform and market needs, and demonstration of alignment of initiative goals and objectives with those of the BU and platform.
• Manage and achieve budget plans for AOP, individual capital projects, and Flowserve strategy.
  
  

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Operations, Data Sciences or similar technical degree with advanced degree preferred.
• 15 years of functional experience in the business
• 7 years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain and/or facilitating the development and implementation of business initiatives and projects, based on management objectives
• Ability to provide strategic technical leadership and lead by influence the creation of long-term strategy (e.g., more than 3 years) roadmaps in a virtual environment aligning and communicating with all levels of the business (senior executives leadership through end users)
• Leadership experience in digital strategy deployment and uses of automation in
• world-class production facilities
• Functional knowledge of manufacturing operations – including but not limited to the following functions: planning/forecasting, supply management, procurement, sales and operations planning, engineering, production scheduling, maintenance, production controls, quality control, inventory management, supply chain, warehouse and distribution
• Track record of project delivery success that should include: System Implementation / Integration, cost savings, process improvement, production capacity improvement,
• Strong functional knowledge of ERP and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) with broad IT expertise in various disciplines (system development, infrastructure) and new technologies
• Engaged leadership style with a hands-on approach combined with the ability to delegate appropriately. Demonstrated ability to motivate, inspire and commit an organization that spans different cultures and regions to a course of action and achieve results.
• Proven ability to act as an effective change agent driving significant strategic change across an organization in alignment with business needs. Understanding of what it takes to lead organizational change and the ability to adapt and change course as business needs demand.
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated commitment to staff development through mentoring and coaching.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proficiency in data-driven decision making and a demonstrated ability to apply technical and continuous improvement tools to drive performance improvement in alignment with business and stakeholder needs.
• Strong business and finance acumen, especially pertaining to capital project financial justifications.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills including a history of developing and fostering collaborative relationships.
  
  

Req ID : R-14471

Job Family Group : Operations

Job Family : OP Operational Leadership

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