Global Manufacturing Excellence Leader

DuPont; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 168,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont is seeking a Manufacturing Domain Leader to drive global manufacturing excellence across multiple sites. You will lead a world-class team, develop standards, playbooks, and capability-building programs, and partner with cross-functional leaders to raise productivity, safety, quality, and cost performance.

This role reports to senior leaders, shapes strategy, and embeds the DuPont Business System while advancing data-driven decision making from the plant floor to the executive suite.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of manufacturing, production, or operations leadership experience, including significant time spent supporting plant operations.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive global manufacturing excellence strategy across multiple sites.
• Lead the creation, deployment, and continuous improvement of manufacturing standards, toolkits, and playbooks.
• Partner 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.

Skills

Leadership

Lean Manufacturing

Change leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Job description

DuPont is seeking a Manufacturing Domain Leader to drive global manufacturing excellence across multiple sites. You will lead a world-class team, develop standards, playbooks, and capability-building programs, and partner with cross-functional leaders to raise productivity, safety, quality, and cost performance.

This role reports to senior leaders, shapes strategy, and embeds the DuPont Business System while advancing data-driven decision making from the plant floor to the executive suite.