Valley View / Stow Works Site Leader

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Valley View & Stow Plant Manager

DuPont is seeking to hire a Plant Manager to lead the Valley View & Stow sites in Northeast Ohio. The Plant Manager has overall accountability for site personnel, EHS compliance, community relations, and local achievement of business and corporate goals at the Valley View and Stow, OH locations.

The Valley View and Stow sites are located south of Cleveland, Ohio near Interstate 77, Interstate 480, and the Ohio Turnpike. The Valley View site employs ~175 people while the Stow site employs ~40 people.

Both sites manufacture compression molded, close tolerance-machined composite parts for major aerospace, commercial, and military aircraft engine manufacturers worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for EHS performance of the site. “Driving to Zero” injuries must be the EHS target.
• Accountable for full compliance with all regulatory requirements and DuPont requirements
• Accountable for assuring full compliance to DuPont Ethical Standards
• Ensures people treatment standards are clearly defined and administered equitably across the site.
• Plant Manager should take a strong lead in both words and action to support EHS performance including field visibility to lead by example and drive behaviors
• Sponsors site sustainability initiatives
• Leads, represents, and partners with local government and community organizations
• Has local, legal ownership of the Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance (MIQA) process results
• Acts as the Responsible Official for local, state, and federal environmental signings. This includes final legal accountability for all regulatory permits/licenses and remediation requirements.
• Landlord for emergency, community response and public relations.
• Accountable for security of site.
• Sponsors Health & Safety, Process Safety Management (PSM) and Environmental committees
  
  
  

People Leadership:

• Cultivates CARE (Connect, Appreciate, Respect, Empower) culture across the site
• Builds effective teams by driving site employee development process and ensuring site people succession planning meets future skill requirements
• Sponsors and Champions onsite DE&I networks; values and leverages differences in people
• Works with Site resources to foster relationships with local school systems and technical colleges ensuring education is adequate to meet DuPont’s current and future hiring needs
• Develops constructive relationships with local Contractors
• Promotes and expands the networks of succession candidates across businesses, regions, and DuPont globally.
• Advocates on behalf and is accessible to employees and stakeholders of the business.
• Promotes continuous improvement in employee engagement and satisfaction, through the utilization and monitoring of employee feedback.
• Spokesperson and representative to the site for corporate strategy and initiatives.
• Communicates business and site information in clear and compelling ways; connects people to purpose
  
  
  

Business Owner Mindset/Financial Acumen:

• Represents the site in the business strategy development and goal setting process.
  
  
  

Example: operational costs, asset efficiency/ reliability, yields, quality performance, etc

• Translates and communicates the business strategy and objectives to the site personnel and manages broadly to assure execution vs objectives.
• Oversees effectiveness of overall operations for all aspects of the Site including production, maintenance, technology and other manufacturing /units functions.
• Actively supports the continuous improvement of quality management systems in order to maintain industry certifications, as well as drive a continuous improvement mindset to meet customer needs.
• Inspires all levels of the organization to apply the concepts of continuous improvement, digital technology, value creation, and financial acumen skills to accelerate site profitability, productivity and customer-centric solutions.
• Accountable for site costs.
• Understands the products and critical customers supplied from the site.
• Works with other sites / functions to leverage best practices to the site.
• Conducts annual and long-term capital planning for site including 5-year infrastructure plans
• Ensures site infrastructure strategically maintained. Makes certain condition, reliability, and capability is adequate for current businesses.
• Manages tenants and utility providers. This includes legal agreements, services, and cost.
  
  
  

Community:

• Serves as the face of the company to the community.
• Steward of philanthropic funds and activities.
• Provides facilitative leadership within the Community Advisory panel.
• Represents DuPont at local, state, and community organizational levels.
• Networks and advocates with other local, industry, and business associations.
• Actively collaborates with local, regional and if appropriate national or international governmental bodies in shaping future regulations.
• Maintains housekeeping and exterior image to community.
• Legal authority for local transactions.
• Hosts events for both internal and external stakeholders and visitors.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• 10 years of Manufacturing Experience
• BS Sciences, Engineering
• Prior site or unit management experience
• Strong visionary, change management and engagement skills
• Tech Savvy / Knowledge of Industry 4.0 approaches
• Multiple Cross-functional experiences (Mfg Tech, Project mgmt, Maint/Rel, EHS, SC, CI, HR, etc)
• Employee relations experience
• Ability to set priorities and provide direction to influence management and broader organization
• (Recommended) Supply Chain experience or equivalent training (APICS CSCP or CPIM)
• (Recommended) Six Sigma Certification
  
  
  

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