Flowserve Corporation
Director, Plant Manager
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Position Overview and Responsibilities
Responsible for Elland, the Plant Director manages and directs all manufacturing activities at a plant or production process, including production, materials, quality control, and manufacturing engineering, to produce products in the most cost-effective way, while meeting shipping requirements and sales commitments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Operations Management, Operational Excellence, Safety, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing Engineering, and plant Procurement functions
- Establish processes to ensure manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed requirements for EHS, cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness
- Drive plant breakthrough operational performance by increasing productivity and reducing cost, lead-time, and inventory while delivering a quality product complete and on-time to the customer
- Continuously improve customer satisfaction through improved product quality (First Pass Quality and On Time In Full)
- Implement and deliver a continuous improvement environment/culture
- Develop key metrics to measure the plant's performance and align area key performance metrics with overall platform goals; organizing resources to deliver on these metrics
- Support new product launches and other manufacturing projects/initiatives
- Oversee financial and cost management processes to ensure delivery against performance targets
- Develop requests for capital and implement in accordance with approved plans
- Partner with peers in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Footprint, HSE, Planning, and Engineering, etc.
- Develop and recommend annual and multi-year strategic manufacturing plans, capital, and special projects
- Manage resource productivity to result in manufacturing and material cost reductions
- Meet or exceed On-Time Delivery (OTD) standards
- Own and reduce past due backlog using a continuous/solutions-driven approach
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Qualifications & Experience
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- BS or BA Degree in a relevant field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, including a minimum of 4 years leading teams
- Strong record of safety performance in a manufacturing plant
- Plant Management/Operations experience in a low-volume/high-mix environment of similar size and scale
- Asset-intensive, discrete manufacturing experience across various manufacturing functions, such as manufacturing, engineering, CIP, supply chain, quality, EHS, and related
- Experience in materials management, supply chain, inventory control, planning, and/or logistics
- Experience in a manufacturing-to-order (must) or engineered-to-order (preferred) environment
- Track record meeting/exceeding KPIs in manufacturing cost reduction and productivity improvement, EHS, and related
- Track record implementing continuous improvement/lean initiatives for YoY results
- Experience developing and managing budgets, schedules, capital expenditure plans with an understanding of the financial implications of operational strategies
- Proven leadership and people management skills – ability to foster effective relationships amongst manufacturing teams
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