Company Description
When you work for John Crane, you join a community driven by pioneering spirit and a legacy of innovation. Our engineered solutions drive reliability, uptime and energy efficiency, empowering the world’s largest energy service providers to achieve sustainability goals that shape the future of our world. If you’re ready to accelerate the new energy transition through technology leadership, cutting-edge solutions and service excellence, you'll fit right in.
Job Description
Key Activities:
The Service Center Manager will be responsible for providing strong managerial, operational and technical leadership to the dry gas service team, ensuring efficient, protected, and high-quality execution of all refurbishments, assembly, and testing activities. This role oversees daily operations within the service center, ensuring adherence to OEM specifications, internal procedures, and all applicable quality, safety, and environmental standards.
Key responsibilities include coordinating workload, scheduling tasks,



and allocating resources to meet service commitments and customer deadlines while maintaining seamless production flow. The role involves reviewing inspection findings, test results, and service documentation to ensure accuracy, technical compliance, and continuous improvement. The role collaborates closely with engineering, quality, maintenance, warehouse, logistics, customer service and sales functions to plan, resolve technical issues, prevent interruptions, and support operational objectives.
The position drives ongoing improvements in processes, tools, and team capabilities through initiatives such as Kaizen, 5S, and corrective/preventive actions. It ensures the consistent application of industrial safety standards, management system requirements (IMS, ISO), and housekeeping practices aligned with 5S.
Additional responsibilities include conducting daily and weekly operational review meetings, validating operational reports with the Senior Manager Global

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