Director - Plant Manager

Flowserve is the recognized world leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical, and other industries. With more than 18,000 employees in more than 55 countries, we combine our global reach with a local presence. Flowserve is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, gender, disability or protected veteran status.

The Flowserve Cookeville business designs, manufactures, and sells a variety of isolation products and solutions. Sales are in a wide variety of industries including power, chemical, and water, and the business is expected to grow substantially both domestically and internationally over the next five years.

Overview Scope of Responsibility:

The Plant Director’s primary responsibilities include leading the Cookeville Operation staff, the daily management and coordination of the plant operations including production, quality, logistics and maintenance while ensuring compliance with all labor, safety, environmental and corporate policies and regulations. This position is responsible for providing overall leadership and direction to the business and developing growth plans to ensure the annual business objectives, including P&L and balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.

• Direct Reports (Operations, Materials & Planning, QA, and Project Management) and matrix reports (Engineering, Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, HRBP Partner, and Finance Business Partner)

Key Company Expectations:

• Partner with local, regional or functional teams to achieve or exceed the annual business plan (including P&L,balance sheet objectives, and Operational KPI’s) by implementing process improvements and capital spending plans, reducing non-value added operating costs and shortening product lead times.

• Partner with local, regional or functional teams in exploring growth markets, deploying sales growth initiatives, expanding product offerings and seizing business opportunities from competition.
• Partner with local teams in establishing / maintaining controls that achieve or exceed regulatory health and safety standards, meeting import / export requirements and operating in manner that aligns to Flowserve’s ethical guidelines.
• Partner with local HR in ensuring that current and future staffing levels are appropriate based on business conditions, creating a work environment in which employees are proud to work, ensuring hiring managers are competent interviewers and selecting talent appropriately, driving efforts that seek to increase employee engagement, appropriately differentiating talent based on observed performance and skill, providing relevant development opportunities for employees to increase performance, ensuring that local leadership continuity is intact over time and minimizing retention risk of critical knowledge or personnel. 
• Maintain positive employee relations within the facility by being visible and interacting with multiple levels of personnel, setting direction and communicating to the site in terms of business opportunity and performance, cascading goals that seek to align an individual’s efforts to that of the larger operation’s objectives, providing feedback and coaching to direct reports and line-level leaders and recognizing the contributions of others to business success.