Plant Manager

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INVISTA is seeking a Plant Manager at our Seaford, DE facility, to join our leading industry team. Reporting to the Vice President of Nylon Downstream Operations, the Plant Manager will focus on building site capability by setting vision, strategy, and aligning priorities to achieve operational excellence and deliver superior business results. As a champion of Koch's Principle Based Management culture, the Plant Manager leads to foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented environment where employees can succeed, maximize their contributions, and reach their full potential.

If you are passionate about developing site capability, driving performance, and seeking long-term growth and advancement opportunities, we'd like to hear from you.

Since 1939, the INVISTA Performance Solutions Seaford site continues to be a world class manufacturing facility with ~ 135 employees, which manufactures Nylon 6,6 staple fiber. The Seaford plant holds a rich industrial legacy. It was the world's first nylon plant-earning Seaford the nickname "Nylon Capital of the World". The facility spans 750 acres along the Nanticoke River. The site primarily supports INVISTA's nylon fibers business, producing materials for military uniforms, flame‑resistant workwear, and industrial applications like press felts for paper manufacturing.

• Cultivate high‑performing, empowered teams: Champion, and apply our Principle Based Management (PBM) Framework to harness INVISTA's competitive advantage: our Culture. Lead with a shared vision, align the organizational direction, and enable high‑performing, empowered teams to create superior business results.
• Prioritize Safety, Quality & Accountability: Foster a culture of ownership and teamwork to achieve superior safety, quality, and operational outcomes, while improving our EHS and quality risk profile.
• Focus on Leadership and Talent Development: Develop and enable leaders to, in turn, develop and enable their teams, creating the capabilities for a successful operation and the opportunities for fulfilling careers.
• Partner for Business Impact: Collaborate with commercial and functional leaders aligning operations strategies to business priorities and objectives, delivering measurable results.
• Enhance Operations & Asset Reliability: Lead operational, asset health, reliability and maintenance strategies to deliver stable and reliable operations.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Apply lean concepts, foster disciplined use of systems for learning, and quality execution 'right the first time' to optimize efficiency and eliminate waste. Enable employees to act and contribute through a bottom‑up solution philosophy while recognizing and rewarding individual and team contributions.

• Advanced manufacturing leadership experience with direct reports in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience leading integrated teams to identify and capture strategic business improvement opportunities
• Experience leading transformational improvement strategies through people, process and technology innovations
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a technical discipline or business
• Military service experience
• Experience in high performance safety and/or quality critical industries

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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