Continuous Improvement Sr. Engineering Lead

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** Continuous Improvement Sr. Engineering Lead*
* DuPont has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an Operational Excellence and Senior Engineering leader at the Spray Polyurethane Foam site located in Wilmington, Illinois. This site employs approximately 150 people and is about 60 miles southwest from downtown Chicago. This is the flagship site for production of GREAT STUFF and other spray foam construction materials. Our products are sold in "big box" stores and directly into construction distribution channels.

DuPont's Shelter Business continually creates novel solutions for improved energy efficiency in buildings today, while also addressing the industry's emerging needs and demands.

This role is suited for someone with a solid manufacturing and engineering background who is well-organized and a strong communicator with outstanding leadership attributes. The Continuous Improvement Engineering Leader is accountable for performance management, coaching and employee development of 5 direct reports (engineers and local experts in process control and reliability). This leader works closely with operations and plant staff displaying strong technical, leadership and team-building skills.

The position also has the added responsibility to plan, lead, and manage $1MM-3MM of annual spending in Cap Ex and other plant maintenance/engineering projects to achieve plant/business goals. They may also serve as the facility/manufacturing representative on large capital projects. The Continuous Improvement Engineering Leader is expected to exhibit very strong field presence, serving as an influential leader for everyone across the site.

** Responsibilities*
* + Provides administrative leadership, coaching, and career development for direct reports.

+ Demonstrates leadership with strong field presence and involvement in shop floor audits.

+ Creates an environment that fosters team and individual empowerment throughout the organization.

+ Recognizes personnel for both behavior and performance.

+ Ensures implementation and effectiveness of work processes, operating discipline, management systems, enabling technologies, and roles.

+ Leads the plant level improvement process by gathering and analyzing data, evaluating improvement opportunities, and implementing improvement projects to close performance gaps and increase manufacturing capability.

+ Validates, consolidates, and prioritizes plant improvement opportunities and aligns them to the Business Technology Implementation Plan and Business objectives.

+ Sets Site Reliability Strategy and drives implementation through cross-functional teams. Tracks progress, as needed, in global reporting tools.

+ Implements improvement projects in reliability, process safety, and to improve plant performance.

+ Works with the Run Plant Engineers and Reliability Specialist in collection and analysis of improvement project results data to validate the projects that deliver sustained performance objectives after implementation

+ Promotes and champions Continuous Improvement/LEAN initiatives at the plant.

+ Leverages DuPont subject matter experts as needed.

+ Provides technical expertise on all matters of reliability engineering, assessment and monitoring for all process equipment (including mechanical, electrical and instrument / control equipment).

+ Apply engineering theory, practices, and principles to perform physical failure analysis, determine root cause of equipment failures and conduct equipment performance evaluations.

+ Analyze equipment trends, historical data, and field data to recommend and justify improvements to obtain lowest life cycle cost for equipment, maximize production, and reduce process variation.

+ Participate in reliability networks and share best practices, successes, and failures.

+ Serve as MIQA Leader for the site PSM program.

+ Participate in PSM activities as defined by site manuals and practices, mainly focused in mechanical integrity (MI) and quality assurance (QA)

+ Interact with the Business Engineering Leaders, Manufacturing Technology organization, and Site Leader to create and successfully execute capital plan (typically $1MM-$3MM/yr).

+ Work closely with the site, Manufacturing Technology organization, and Cap Ex resources to execute FEL engineering activities. Leads the team in identifying non-cap or more effective alternatives, following best practices, conducting risk analysis, and developing mitigating plans.

+ Drive project execution and coach site team on application of the DuPont Global Project Execution Methodology…