Manufacturing Domain Leader

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At DuPont, we’re reimagining how world-class manufacturing organizations operate by combining Operational Excellence, advanced technologies, and the DuPont Business System to drive breakthrough business performance.

As the Manufacturing Domain Leader, you will lead a global team of manufacturing subject matter experts responsible for developing and deploying world-class manufacturing standards, tools, playbooks, and best practices that improve productivity, agility, safety, quality, and business performance across DuPont.

• Define and drive DuPont's global manufacturing excellence strategy across multiple businesses and manufacturing sites.
• Lead the creation, deployment, and continuous improvement of manufacturing standards, toolkits, and operational excellence playbooks based on industry-leading practices.
• Partner closely with Business Operational Excellence Directors, Integrated Operations Leaders, and functional leaders across Supply Chain, Quality, Reliability, and Maintenance to deliver sustainable improvements in SQDIP performance.
• Build and strengthen manufacturing capability by developing practitioner training, certification programs, and communities of practice.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to manufacturing and business leaders, facilitating workshops, Kaizen events, performance improvement initiatives, and strategic transformation programs.
• Develop robust manufacturing performance metrics, analytics, and "single sources of truth" that enable data-driven decision making from the plant floor to the executive leadership team.
• Collaborate with Digital, Engineering, Automation, and IT leaders to maximize value from manufacturing technologies and IT/OT systems.
• Integrate manufacturing excellence tools and practices into the evolving DuPont Business System to create a consistent approach across the enterprise.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and operational excellence throughout the organization.

This is far more than a traditional operational excellence role.

You will help shape the future of manufacturing across a global enterprise undergoing significant transformation. Working alongside senior leaders, you will influence strategy, drive execution, and build capabilities that impact thousands of employees and manufacturing facilities worldwide.

• Lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
• Influence manufacturing performance across multiple global businesses.
• Build and scale world-class operational excellence practices.
• Develop future manufacturing leaders and practitioners.
• Drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
• Help embed the DuPont Business System across the organization.

• 15+ years of manufacturing, production, or operations leadership experience, including significant time spent supporting plant operations.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale operational excellence or manufacturing transformation initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with leaders at all levels of the organization, from plant operations to executive leadership.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams in a matrixed, global environment.

• Deep expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, and Operational Excellence methodologies.
• Experience deploying structured business systems such as the Danaher Business System, Toyota Production System, Honeywell Operating System, or similar frameworks.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent certification is preferred.
• Strong track record…