Shaft Manufacturing Manager, CoE

Flowserve Corporation•Kalamazoo, MI

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for leadership of the Shaft Cell COE and its staff and management of the overall value stream including all operational aspects of the Shaft Cell COE. This includes oversight of the upstream demand forecasting, materials planning, and raw material sourcing, NC programming, and other critical functions, loading of the cell for optimum utilization of the cell resources and the raw materials, and oversight of the quality management and logistics for finished products. The Manufacturing Manager will drive programs to support safety, quality, and operational excellence at the site. These will be measured and monitored with KPIs including TRR and LTA, OTD, Past Due Backlog, direct labor utilization and efficiency, throughput, and COPQ. The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for managing and ensuring that the team provides high quality parts in alignment of customer request dates and manages the utilization of the Shaft Cell COE within the established operating budget and to achieve the target cost per piece produced. The Shaft Cell COE Manufacturing Manager will be located at the Shaft COE Cell at the Kalamazoo site.

Requirements

Minimum 2 years Supervisory/Management experience
Excellent leadership, communication, planning and organizational skills.
Sound understanding of manufacturing processes and procedures
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong Computer Skills (experience with SAP)

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience in the industry
Lean and/or 6 Sigma training a plus
Good working knowledge of Flowserve product lines

Responsibilities

Approve timecards/set operator schedule/overtime
Oversee training development of machinists and logistics
Ensure the operators and logistics are adhering to standard work
Set KPI goals, and monitor progress of machinists throughout the year
Monitor earned hrs./absorption throughout the month
Run earned hours report every week to ensure we are meeting targets
Create purchase requisitions and be able to convert to purchase orders
Process physical inventory counts
Manage Kasto and maintain accuracy in SAP
Process invoices through VIM inbox
Report out metrics for the month (calculate bookings, shafts manufactured, COE backlog, OTD, PDBL, cancelled shafts)
Create monthly presentations for ELT on progress of the cell
Manage modeling delivery by partnering with GTEC
Determine inventory strategies to minimize excess inventory
Maintain relationships with people at the OEM sites
Ensure schedule adherence for production
Train team on OPEX
Direct and lead team members toward common goals and objectives.
Effectively manages both projects and resources
Convey information broadly and in such a manner that it advances team and business goals, strengthens relationships, and transfers business knowledge.
Communicate market trends and conditions and customer activities and strategies on an ongoing basis
Drive support of the key objectives of Flowserve into the group which includes, working to achieve yearly targets, on time performance targets, and overall operational excellence.
Consistently lead Root Cause Analysis reviews and Corrective Action Requests - takes initiative outside direct area of responsibility to drive quality improvements in organization