Site Continuous Improvement Leader in Newark, DE

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Job title: Site Continuous Improvement Leader in Newark, DE at DuPont

Company: DuPont

Job description: 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.Plant Continuous Improvement 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.

Lead Site Production through Digital Lean (PDL) efforts to improve plant productivity.

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

Qualitications:

5 years minimum relevant experience

Continuous Improvement practitioner

Process leadership

Project Management

Change Management

People leadership, preferred

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Information Technologies

Green Belt

#LI-JS1Join our to stay connected with us!On May 22, 2024, we announced a plan to separate our Electronics and Water businesses in a tax-free manner to its shareholders. On January 15, 2025, we announced that we are targeting November 1, 2025, for the completion of the intended separation of the Electronics business (the “Intended Electronics Separation”)*. We also announced that we would retain the Water business. We are committed to ensuring a smooth and successful separation process for the Future Electronics business. We look forward to welcoming new talent 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 .DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our .DuPont offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package. To learn more visit the .

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Location: Newark, DE

Job date: Thu, 01 May 2025 02:57:57 GMT

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