Dry End Production Lead

DuPont•Buffalo, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At DuPont, the purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive, working on critical areas like clean water, essential technology materials, and worker protection. The primary responsibility of this role is to meet business and operations objectives for the assigned area within the Corian® Unit. The successful candidate will manage overall productivity, quality, resourcing, and scheduling of the assigned assets while continuously improving the area's capabilities to meet business objectives. This role requires strong operations knowledge and understanding of work processes. This position reports to the Unit Leader and manages 3 direct reports, including one Maintenance Coordinator and two Technical Advisors.

Requirements

HS Diploma or equivalent required
5 years of manufacturing or related experience required
Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and oral/written communication skills
Knowledge of appropriate standards, protocols, and systems.
Microsoft Office knowledge and skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
Demonstrated skill in verbal and written communications, planning and organizing.
Root cause analysis, troubleshooting and problem-solving skill.
Leadership skills – Coaching & mentoring.
Experience in coaching, training, networking and facilitation.
The ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.
Ability to challenge the status quo, drive change and identify improvement opportunities

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in science or technology
Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing principles

Responsibilities

Develops strong partnerships with support functions such as EH&S, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and others to drive improvement in the organization and assure alignment.
Lead Root Cause Investigations related to EHS, downtime, or quality events.
Understands the production process, equipment, and material flow.
Applies expertise to Operations processes to optimize production, yield, and overall cost.
Works with the Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper (ACGK) to ensure maintenance outage periods are optimized and frozen.
Provides input for turnaround scope development and duration.
Plays a role in turnaround execution, as needed.
Works with Technical Advisor and other personnel to optimize Operations’ performance meeting Business/Plant goals and to ensure daily production targets are met.
Continually improve asset performance while meeting area FPFQY, OEE, and Total Cost of Manufacture objectives (fixed and variable).
Works with Production Scheduler to optimize product wheel, inventory, and production schedule.
Evaluates production capability and Plant constraints (ex. outages, equipment/staffing limitations, available storage space) and has decision-making rights to determine if Operations can commit to the schedule.
Challenges breaks to the production schedule.
Assist Operators in resolution of gaps between current production versus plan.
Provides leadership and direction in the day-to-day decision-making for the operating area of responsibility.
On call contact for issues regarding production issues.
Define current capability of production area and Key Performance Indicators.
Routinely reviews performance issues with production team and works with Area Leadership to obtain resources to resolve issues.
Escalates issues that cannot be resolved with current resources to Production Leader.
Partner with improvement teams to reach agreement on proposed improvement plans and ensures plant resources are available to achieve the plan.
Leads a routine review of performance in executing against the production schedule.
Owns the Operations metrics for this review and presents data/findings to Operations leadership.
Promotes proactive equipment problem identification.
Works with other roles to ensure operating plan and reliability issues are coordinated.
Ensures issue resolution is communicated and leveraged appropriately.
Networks with engineers and with the Business to leverage knowledge on plant operations.