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Production Supervisor

Flowserve Corp
  • Baton Rouge, LA
    4 days ago

    Job Description

    Company Overview:

    Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together-creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow.

    Your Role and Impact

    At Flowserve, you will direct shop floor operations and lead a team of approximately 29 hourly manufacturing professionals at our heavy industrial pump facility. As a hands-on Production Supervisor, you will drive daily production schedules, enforce strict safety standards, and optimize inventory management and quality. Your leadership will ensure efficient manufacturing operations while actively promoting lean principles, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver mission-critical flow control solutions on time.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Supervise and direct the day-to-day activities of an hourly manufacturing team (approx. 29 reports) across machining and assembly work centers.

    • Drive daily tier-board meetings and review key operational metrics, including safety, quality, productivity, utilization, efficiency, scrap, and rework.

    • Manage production planning and execution across multiple work centers to ensure on-time delivery and alignment with customer demand.

    • Implement and sustain lean manufacturing tools and methodologies, including 5S ("6's"), SMED, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and FMEA to eliminate waste and reduce setup times.

    • Drive root-cause problem-solving analyses to resolve shop-floor bottlenecks, quality non-conformances, and process variations.

    Required Qualifications

    • High School Diploma or GED equivalent (relevant technical or engineering degree preferred).

    • 2+ years of supervisory or leadership experience managing hourly teams within a heavy industrial machine shop or manufacturing environment.

    • Solid working knowledge of lean manufacturing tools (5S, SMED, VSM, FMEA) and continuous improvement methodologies.

    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) and production scheduling tools.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.

    • Experience within a pump, valve, or rotating equipment manufacturing/repair facility.

    What We Can Offer You

    At Flowserve, you'll find a range of options to fit your, and your family's, needs. We want to provide our team with the right resources to invest in your physical, mental and financial well-being no matter where you sit or what stage of life you're in.

    Our benefits* include:

    • Competitive Salary

    • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

    • Retirement Planning & Financial Wellness Resources

    • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)

    • Short- and Long-Term Disability

    • Parental Leave

    • Life, Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance

    • Benefits vary by job, location and/or collective bargaining agreement.

    If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.

    Req ID : R-21807

    Job Family Group : Operations

    Job Family : OP Manufacturing Leadership

    EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

    If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBaton Rouge, LA
    IndustryEngineering Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1997

    About Company

    Our global team of more than 18,000 employees in 55 countries can put together the total solution—from project planning to lifecycle maintenance programs to some of the most proven technology on the planet. All so you can get more from your capital investment. Exceed your operational goals. And always come through, when failure is not an option.

    Skills

    • Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)unmatched
    • Alternative Energyunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
    • Board Meetingunmatched
    • Collective Bargainingunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Dental Insuranceunmatched
    • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)unmatched
    • Heavy Equipment/Vehiclesunmatched
    • High School Diplomaunmatched
    • Industrial Engineeringunmatched
    • Insuranceunmatched
    • Inventory Managementunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Lean Manufacturingunmatched
    • Machiningunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • Manufacturing Equipment Maintenanceunmatched
    • Manufacturing Methodsunmatched
    • Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
    • Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Microsoft Excelunmatched
    • Microsoft Officeunmatched
    • Microsoft Wordunmatched
    • Operational Auditunmatched
    • Operations Managementunmatched
    • People Managementunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Production Managementunmatched
    • Production Planningunmatched
    • Production Scheduleunmatched
    • Pumpsunmatched
    • Retirement Planningunmatched
    • Safety Standardsunmatched
    • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
    • Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)unmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Tool and Die Manufacturingunmatched
    • Value Stream Mappingunmatched
    • Vision Planunmatched

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