Parlin, NJ, 08859, USA
48 days ago
Continuous Improvement Plant Leader
At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. Why Join Us | DuPont Careers (https://careers.dupont.com/us/en/whyjoinus) Our Operations team is essential to delivering the innovative and life-saving products we make for our customers. We depend on our team members to actively engage in continuously improving our operations while we provide the growth and development to help them build their skills and career. Operational Excellence in our workplace unleashes the energy, creativity and collaboration – along with our tools, technology and training – that enables our people to perform at their best. **Continuous Improvement Plant Leader** is a Change Leader role focused on improving operational performance and capability within the plant by implementing and strengthening Lean, Six Sigma and Agile practices to enable continuous improvement and future digital enhancements. Partners with the Plant Leader and Business Integrated Operations CI Leader to prioritize work, identify methodologies and staffing as needed. Collaborates with other sites to ensure leveraging of ideas, tools and methods. **Your Key Responsibilities:** + Collaborates with plant leadership to establish a common view of the current state of operational maturity, the key opportunities for improvement (margin, EBITDA, and operational maturity); Develops and maintains a plant Operational Excellence Roadmap aligned with the line of business strategic objectives + Leads plant Program Management Office (PMO) including the pipeline for opportunities, a plant leadership / LOB decision board, performance monitoring of initiatives, and benefit validation in OTT  + Leads integration and planning of the plant implementation/rollout of the Dupont OpEx Framework according to the roles and responsibilities defined in the Deployment model playbooks + Leads/coaches improvement projects from opportunity definition (data analysis, voice of the customer, problem definition) to realization and financial validation through the application of DuPont’s Industry 4.0 Operational Excellence approach (combining Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile) + Facilitates workshops and different types of learning methods beyond "classroom" to mentor plant leadership and team members in Operational Excellence techniques and approaches (examples: 5S, SMED, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, online training through OpEx Academy) + Monitors success of development/implementation plans to help employees turn training into action and sustain results + Partners to identify improvement projects across multiple functions/plants and drafts charters for improvement projects with clearly defined benefits, scope, resource requirements, and project plans with milestones and timelines + Engages in network meetings for learning/success sharing among peer groups  + Shares and trains on new approaches, tools, concepts, and processes to the plant in concert with the larger CI network + Serves as a local champion for impact tracking and validation **Your Qualification Profile:** + 5+ years of relevant experience + Continuous Improvement practitioner + Process leadership + Project Management + Change Management + People leadership, preferred + Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Information Technology or a related field is preferred + Experience in IX Resins Manufacturing preferred + Green Belt preferred \#LI-JS1 Join our Talent Community (http://careers.dupont.com/us/en/jointalentcommunity) to stay connected with us! We are excited to share that on May 22, 2024, DuPont announced plans to separate(1) into three industry-leading, independent publicly traded companies. This strategic move will create focused businesses with distinct investment profiles. We believe the proposed separations will create opportunities for all three future companies to better serve their customers and unlock long-term value for stakeholders. This process is expected to take 18-24 months from the date of announcement to complete. We are committed to supporting our employees throughout this transition and ensuring a smooth and successful separation process. We look forward to welcoming new talent who are interested in contributing to the continued success and growth of our evolving organization. _(1)The separation transactions are subject to satisfaction of customary conditions, including final approval by DuPont's Board of Directors, receipt of tax opinion from counsel, the filing and effectiveness of Form 10 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, applicable regulatory approvals, and satisfactory completion of financing. _ _For further discussion of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could impact the achievement, expected timing and intended benefits of the separation transactions, see DuPont’s_ _announcement (http://www.dupont.com/news/dupont-announces-plan-to-separate-into-three-independent-publicly-traded-companies.html) ._ DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. 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