Innovation Manager

Company Overview:

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion  an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety.

Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Role

Summary:

The Manager of Engineering is responsible for accelerating the development and implementation of new, leading edge product technology throughout a product portfolio to provide a competitive advantage to the corporation. This position will align with innovation and growth to develop and execute product development programs for a product portfolio and incorporate the outcomes of technology development efforts into Flowserve products. In addition, this position will coordinate closely with the engineering managers for the business to prioritize work of his/her team in alignment with the business objectives and strategic campaigns of the operations.

This position is responsible for developing and maintaining resources with the capacity and capability to support our product development program and through these resources provide specialist engineering support to the operations

Responsibilities & Requirements:

- Collaborate with Product Management, Innovation and Growth Leaders, and Platform Engineering Leaders to establish and execute a strategy to manage the product portfolio through effective rationalization of overlapping products

- Oversee and monitor the execution of approved product development projects to ensure that the projects are executed in a professional manner to meet the defined project objectives, and leverage the global capabilities/expertise of the company

- Ensure product safety and regulatory compliance through implementation of rigorous design control procedures and protocols

- Drive product standardization and component rationalization and reuse

- Reinforce the design authority role to drive centralization of product design engineering through clear definition and documentation of product design practices

- Identify and develop specialist engineering skills within the Product Engineering team and oversee an effective process to ensure the effective utilization of these skills across the enterprise

- Oversee the preparation of RCCP charts to drive the management of Product Engineering capacity while fostering a culture of engineering resource management driven through RCCP

Preferred Experience / Skills:

- Demonstrated experience in a supervisory position over technical staff within the rotating equipment industry

- Demonstrated ability to apply technology to creatively solve problems and meet business and stakeholder needs

- Demonstrated ability to develop and manage strong team, customer, and internal relationships including a history of developing collaborative relationships

- Demonstrated ability to accomplish key results through influence

- Proven ability to adapt to changing organizational environment and business needs

- Demonstrated ability to work with geographically dispersed teams with culturally diverse membership

- BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 8-10 years relevant experience

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone.  With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services.

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