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Have the Opportunity to chart your own course, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career. We reward employees with competitive pay and incentives to recognize skills, competencies, and contributions to business results. 

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Technical Team Area Manager

DuPont Area Managers have shared responsibility and accountability for plant personnel, assets, and achievement of the plant related site, business, and corporate goals. Area Managers provide leadership to the operations technical support team and act as the primary back-up to the Unit Manager. 

EH&S/Quality/Reliability Leadership:

• Accountable for their team’s PSM training and support for PSM in the production area.
• Knows and advocates Life Critical Standards within the facility. Demonstrates priority and commitment through personal behavior and coaching in the field. Provides the needed positive and negative reinforcement to address deviations with urgency, and ensures appropriate follow up and investigations.
• Partners with Operations Team area manager with accountability to investigate PSM-related incidents and close gaps.
• Primary accountability for PCS in the area. Drives best practices and continuous improvement in process variability and capability to meet customer needs and reduce scrap.
• Primary area focal point for customer excursions and high impact case owner.
• Accountability for MRB resolution process and driving reduced cycle-time on MRB decision-making.
• Partners with Unit Manager to ensure capital is allocated appropriately to improve consistency in the process and design out variability. Prioritizes projects that drive value for DuPont and its customers.
• Supports OEE improvements across the unit
• Shows courageous leadership by coaching, asking questions, and intervening when needed. Challenges status quo and past norms to make the operation more safe and effective.

People/Organizational Effectiveness:

• Has direct responsibility for operations Process Engineers and PCS focal point.
• Supports Unit Manager to provide motivation, explanation, context, and communication purpose of messages to the empowered organization.
• Inspires and motivates the organization through leadership and strong connection with the team fostering an empowered organization. Shows appreciation for employees and maintains a servant leadership mindset.
• Accountable for maintaining and improving the expertise index for process engineers, ensuring that appropriate knowledge remains within the facility.
• Works closely with Human Resources as needed to hire employees with appropriate experience. Ensures employees are on-boarded and trained via a comprehensive technical training program to maximize their opportunity for success and increase core skillsets.
• Models DuPont’s core values and behaviors and understands that his/her behavior shapes the team’s culture
• Develops operation employees and ensures career success via goal-setting, performance management, promotion processes, and employee development plan.
• Interacts with peers in leadership to create talent opportunity and movement plan to ensure development of process engineers while maintaining key knowledge and experience adjacent to the processes.
• Enhances the working relationship between MT, PQE, the operations team, and the process engineers.
• Leads and coordinates Tech Team through projects, unplanned events, and targeted programs such as Statistical Process Control

Business Owner Mindset/Financial Acumen/Continuous Improvement:

• Knows the business model and strategy for facility. Explains to process engineers how their role fits into the business and corporation.
• Supports continuous improvement program process by being active and ensuring participation in opportunity analysis sessions and plant improvements. 
• Partners with improvement teams to reach agreement on proposed improvement plans, and ensures technical resources are available to achieve the plan. Ensures controls are implemented in operating discipline and process control as applicable to sustain improvements.
• Develops strong partnerships with support functions such as PQE and Marketing, and others to drive improvement in the organization and assure alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering preferably Mechanical/ Chemical Engineering
• 5+ years of plant manufacturing/technology experience is required
• Direct supervisory experience required
• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
• Demonstrated capability to quickly understand technology and drive / support change
• Must be able to manage a diverse workload
• Proven commitment, focus and effectiveness on advancing core values
• Data driven, action oriented, and works with a sense of urgency
• Green Belt certification or higher preferred

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