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Continuous Improvement Sr. Engineering Lead

Job in Wilmington, Will County, Illinois, 60481, USA
Listing for: DuPont
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-03
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Quality Engineering, Process Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 120000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 120000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
# Continuous Improvement Sr. Engineering Lead직무 유형 경력Postal Code 60481 Wilmington, Illinois직무 W지역 Wilmington, Illinois, United States of America카테고리 제조**게시일
** 04/09/2026지금 지원듀폰은 필수적인 혁신을 통해 전 세계가 번영할 수 있도록 이바지하는 것을 목표로 삼고 있습니다. 우리는 중요한 사안을 해결하고자 노력합니다. 예를 들어 지구상 10억 명이 넘는 인구에게 깨끗한 물을 공급하거나, 스마트폰에서 전기차에 이르는 일상적인 기술 장치에 필수적인 소재를 생산하고, 전 세계 근로자를 보호하는 것 등이 우리가 생각하는 중요한 사안입니다. 세계 최고의 인재들이 듀폰을 직장으로 선택하는 수많은 이유를 알아보세요.

듀폰에 입사해야 하는 이유 | 듀폰 채용  Improvement Sr. Engineering Lead Du Pont  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 STUFFTM 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…
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