If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/) around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you. **PRIMARY FUNCTION:** This position is responsible for assigning, directing, and observing production team members and work flow to ensure daily fulfillment of safety, customer demand, quality, and cost standards for the Shipping Department. This position is is responsible for improving the department flow, creating & maintaining standard work, and ensuring adherence to established policies and procedures to ensure team member accountability and performance. **PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:** + Actively promote a Zero Injury Safety culture. Engage in proactive safety observations and participate in incident investigations. + Assure that established policies, rules and regulations, procedures and the Collective Bargaining Agreement are followed. + Maintain knowledge of processes and equipment within assigned area. + Conduct effective change management process and communication plans ensuring proper involvement of key stakeholders of change. + Work collaboratively, across multiple stakeholders, including safety, quality, human resources, continuous improvement, logistics, engineering, and finance to solve operational issues and improvements. + Lead daily team start-up meetings and GEMBA boards to review previous work day’s progress and today’s plan. + Minimize disruptions to flow within operations; create standard work for what to do when flow is disrupted, resolve or escalate to get timely resolution as needed. This includes implementation of visual management to best optimize product flow. + Facilitate the performance management process for all direct reports including leadership effectiveness and career development opportunities. + Monitor and track daily performance metrics on value stream GEMBA board, including safety, delivery, quality, and productivity, including oversight to real-time transactions and resolving transaction errors. + Ensure adequate tools, fixtures, routings, prints and programs are available and maintained to efficiently produce quality packages for shipment and minimize disruptions. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address inefficiencies and opportunities for continuous improvement toward on-time delivery. + Utilize continuous improvement tools to reduce waste within the areas assigned. + Manage monthly sales forecast execution. + Champions defect issues in the shipping processes and ensures customer satisfaction through corrective and/or preventative actions. + Assess and address training needs of employees and critical work centers. + Ensures timekeeping and personnel records of assigned team members are completed accurately and timely. + Identify issues and work cross-functionally, as needed, to determine root cause and implement corrective or preventive actions (e.g. implement counter measures to disruptions to flow, missed pitch, scrap/ rework / defects, excess inventory, OT). + Other related duties as assigned. **EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:** + Bachelor’s Degree preferred with 3 years of related supervisory or manufacturing technical support experience, OR + Associate’s Degree in a technical/related field with 7 years related manufacturing supervisory or lead role, OR + High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years in a manufacturing supervisory or leadership role. **OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:** + Due to the nature of the products currently being manufactured at Viking Pump, we adhere to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). In turn, we are only able to employ US Persons. Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world? **IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer.** IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled). **Attention Applicants:** If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at lfcareers@idexcorp.com for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application. **Job Family:** Operations **Business Unit:** Viking Pump