Manager, Project Management

Flowserve Corporation•Kalamazoo, PA

About The Position

Flowserve is seeking a Manager, Project Management – New Product Development (NPD) to lead and strengthen its enterprise product-development project management function. The role drives consistent, disciplined execution of global NPD initiatives across product platforms and ensures programs meet strategic commitments for scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer value. The manager leads a cross-platform team of Project Managers and establishes common governance, reporting, tools, and operating practices, partnering with NPD, Strategic Business Management (SBM), Design-to-Value (DtV), Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams. The position improves portfolio visibility, resolves cross-functional execution barriers, accelerates innovation, and develops a high-performing global project management organization. It oversees enterprise NPD governance and performance metrics; standardizes processes and tools; manages portfolio capacity and financial reporting; leads cross-functional risk and issue resolution; and coaches and develops Project Managers. Success is measured through improved delivery and project health, stronger portfolio predictability and visibility, more consistent process adoption, better financial forecasting, faster resolution of project-support gaps, and stronger NPD team capability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related technical discipline.
At least 10 years of progressive experience in project management, product development, engineering, industrial products, or heavy manufacturing environments.
Experience in an individual-contributor technical role, such as product designer, engineer, test technician, manufacturing engineer, or equivalent technical development role.
Demonstrated experience leading complex New Product Development, R&D, value-engineering, or product-lifecycle initiatives from concept through launch.
Proven success leading cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed organization.
Strong understanding of phase-gate or stage-gate product-development processes, project governance, integrated scheduling, and portfolio reporting.
Ability to manage project budgets, financial forecasts, cost-benefit analyses, and resource-allocation decisions.
Strong experience identifying, assessing, communicating, and mitigating program risks.
Ability to influence without direct authority, align diverse stakeholders, resolve conflict, and drive timely decisions.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and business information to varied audiences.
Demonstrated success leading organizational and process change, including adoption of new tools, standards, and ways of working.
Strong people-leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance-management skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project-management, portfolio-management, and reporting tools.

Nice To Haves

PMP certification, or equivalent demonstrated experience applying formal project-management methodologies.
Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations, Project Management, or a related discipline.
Experience leading global teams and managing geographically distributed project portfolios.
Experience in pumps, valves, seals, flow-control equipment, industrial equipment, energy, process industries, or similarly complex engineered-product environments.
Familiarity with Agile, hybrid Agile/stage-gate, Lean, Design-to-Value, Design for Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or continuous-improvement methodologies.
Experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Microsoft BI dashboards, Mural, Planview, or comparable portfolio and collaboration platforms.
Experience with product lifecycle management, engineering-change management, and intellectual-property processes.
Demonstrated experience implementing project-management office, portfolio governance, or enterprise reporting improvements.

Responsibilities

Lead consistent global application of Flowserve’s New Product Development and Product Development Process frameworks across platforms and business functions.
Establish and maintain enterprise project governance, including phase-gate expectations, decision-readiness criteria, escalation paths, project-health standards, and leadership review cadences.
Define, report, and continuously improve NPD performance metrics, including On-Time Delivery, On-Budget Delivery, project health, milestone attainment, risk exposure, resource utilization, and product vitality.
Ensure project teams maintain integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables.
Drive disciplined execution from concept through development, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch transition.
Lead enterprise-level improvement and standardization of NPD, Product Development Process, and Design-to-Value practices.
Develop and maintain project-management procedures, templates, playbooks, deliverables, reporting tools, and governance standards.
Partner with NPD and DtV leaders to identify execution gaps, simplify processes, improve adoption, and embed best practices.
Evaluate and recommend project-management, portfolio-management, reporting, and collaboration tools.
Participate in assessments involving third-party consultants, supplemental workforce partners, and organizational or process-improvement initiatives.
Coordinate development, communication, training, and adoption plans for process and tool improvements.
Lead cross-platform Project Managers in executing prioritized NPD initiatives.
Conduct capacity-and-demand assessments to inform project-manager assignments, workforce planning, prioritization, and resolution of resource gaps.
Partner with NPD, SBM, DtV, and functional leaders to translate portfolio priorities into executable delivery plans.
Own NPD budget reporting with NPD Leads and Financial Business Partners, including forecast accuracy, project cost performance, and cost-to-complete visibility.
Provide executive-level portfolio reporting on performance trends, decisions required, delivery risks, resource constraints, and recommended actions.
Support business cases, financial analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and Design-to-Value initiatives.
Lead resolution of enterprise-level project-support gaps in alignment with the NPD RACI and functional-accountability model.
Build partnerships across Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Finance, and Commercial functions.
Facilitate decisions, resolve cross-functional conflicts, remove barriers, and escalate issues to protect project commitments.
Ensure teams identify, assess, mitigate, and communicate technical, commercial, operational, supply-chain, financial, and schedule risks.
Ensure teams use appropriate contingency plans, corrective actions, and lessons learned to reduce recurring execution issues.
Ensure intellectual-property creation and protection processes are understood, integrated into project execution, and consistently followed.
Lead, coach, and develop a global team of Project Managers supporting NPD initiatives across product platforms.
Establish team members’ goals, responsibilities, development plans, and performance expectations.
Build team capability in project leadership, product-development execution, financial and risk management, communication, conflict resolution, and executive reporting.
Empower Project Managers to lead decisions, contribute technical and business input, challenge assumptions, resolve conflicts, and escalate appropriately.
Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing talent while promoting accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.
Develop role-based training and change-management plans to drive adoption of improved processes, tools, and standards.