Lean Leader - Global Engineering Processes & Procedures

Position Summary:

The Lean Leader – Global Engineering Processes & Procedures will serve as the central leader for advancing lean engineering capabilities across multiple global engineering organizations, product families, and facilities. This individual will drive the execution, expansion, and long-term sustainability of our engineering lean transformation program. 

The role requires a strong balance of technical lean expertise, leadership influence, facilitation capability, organizational development, and strategic roadmap deployment. The successful candidate will work directly with global engineering leaders, Green Belts, sponsors, and site leadership teams to improve engineering efficiency, reduce waste, standardize processes, strengthen collaboration, and mature engineering operational excellence systems globally. 

This individual will inherit a strong lean foundation already established and will help shape the future strategy, systems, and maturity of the organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with global engineering leadership teams to deploy and sustain lean engineering initiatives across all facilities and product families. 

• Lead the continued evolution of the global engineering lean strategy and multi-year lean transformation roadmap. 

• Facilitate alignment between engineering leaders, sponsors, Green Belts, and site teams on priorities, execution, and strategic objectives. 

• Serve as the central point of leadership for engineering operational excellence initiatives globally. 

• Lead and deploy Lean Methodologies & Continuous Improvement methodologies

• Lead and mentor the global engineering Green Belt program across all facilities. 

• Lead the global deployment of Engineering Processes & Procedures by maintaining and expanding process maps across regions and product families

• Lead the best practice sharing program by driving cross-site collaboration, enabling benchmarking through performance metrics, and supporting organizational learning through cross-training, technical capability development, and skills/competency frameworks.

• Continued development and deployment of Lean Dashboard & KPI Management

• Establish actionable KPI reporting structures for leadership review and strategic decision-making. 

• Lead bi-weekly reviews of lean initiatives, engage leadership, address roadblocks and resources, and drive accountability for execution and roadmap progress across all sites.

• Support development and deployment of a Lean Maturity Assessment framework globally. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related technical discipline. 

• Minimum 7–10 years of experience leading lean transformation initiatives within engineering and/or manufacturing organizations. 

• Demonstrated experience deploying lean methodologies in global engineered-to-order environments. 

• Strong facilitation and leadership capability across cross-functional and global organizations. 

• Strong communication and organizational influence skills. 

• Ability to travel internationally as required. 

Preferred:

• Lean Master Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent. 

• Experience working within global engineering organizations. 

• Experience deploying digital daily management systems. 

• Experience mentoring Green Belts and continuous improvement leaders. 

• Experience in engineering maturity assessment frameworks and operational excellence systems. 

• This role can be based at any Flowserve office across multiple regions and is open to candidates in a variety of locations