Location: Midland,MI, USA
At DuPont, we are working on things that matter; whether it's providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world.
If you would like to be a part of a premier multi-industrial company that is delivering sustainable solutions that bring real purpose and value, of a company with collaborative spirit because it believes that we work best when we work together as a team and values the diversity of thought, then DuPont is the company for you!
We are excited to share that on May 22, 2024, DuPont announced plans to separate(1) into three industry-leading, independent publicly traded companies. This strategic move will create focused businesses with distinct investment profiles. We believe the proposed separations will create opportunities for all three future companies to better serve their customers and unlock long-term value for stakeholders. This process is expected to take 18-24 months from the date of announcement to complete. We are committed to supporting our employees throughout this transition and ensuring a smooth and successful separation process. We look forward to welcoming new talent who are interested in contributing to the continued success and growth of our evolving organization.
**WHY JOIN US?**
**Our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter!**
Have the **Opportunity** to chart your own course, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career. We reward employees with competitive pay and incentives to recognize skills, competencies, and contributions to business results.
Get to **Experience** a collaborative environment where teamwork is celebrated with flexibility that enhances balance and an inclusive atmosphere that is welcoming to all!
Get to know our **Purpose** and make it yours by bringing innovations to market that improve the world, share a commitment to sustainability that makes our planet better and give back to communities in which we work and live.
We are hiring a **Capital Project Leader to** join our **Midland, MI** site team.
The successful candidate will the single point of accountability for the end-to-end project process necessary for a Capital Project to deliver on business objectives. Clearly sets overall Project Leadership Team direction and expectations. The **CPTL** provides the primary interface between the Project Leadership Team and the Business and leads all necessary communication forums.
**Your Key Responsibilities:**
+ Leads cross functional project teams often consisting of contract engineering to meet business objectives.
+ Accountable for generating and implementing appropriate project execution strategy for design, procurement and construction while ensuring each project's execution strategy is sanitized to suit the specific needs of each project with the goal being to provide a competitive and lean approach with an expedient execution timeline.
+ Engages the project steering team as needed to ensure alignment with business, address any needs or concerns, make strategic project decisions, and provide status updates throughout execution of projects.
+ Provides leadership for an effective and cohesive team by ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly understood.
+ Ensures applicable project deliverable are accomplished in a quality manner and leads the project gatekeeping reviews.
+ Leads the team in identifying non-cap alternatives or lower capital options.
+ Ensures excellence in adherence to Process Safety Management (PSM), Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) excellence, Mechanical Integrity, and Quality Assurance (MIQA) requirements, export controls and trade secrets principles, and other core value standards, processes, and procedures.
+ Facilitates economic evaluations, prepares funding requests, forecasts capital and non-cap expenditures and asset write-offs, and ensures necessary financial reporting and accounting is performed.
+ Champions the no change concept and ensures only changes consistent with the business and project objectives are approved.
+ Responsible for the development and implementation of Project Quality Plans, including auditing work processes and deliverables for compliance, and for meeting agreed upon project quality requirements and expectations.
+ Work with business and technical leadership to identify and comply with any US Export Control and Trade Secret/Intellectual Property/Security requirements for the project.
+ Primary DuPont interface with the Full-Service Design Contractors (FSDC) during Front-End Loading (FEL) and Design/Procurement of assigned capital projects.
+ Engage with the sites to support the preparation of all documents needed by the FSDC to launch their efforts to complete FEL and execute production design and procurement.
+ Champion productivity improvement strategies including High Value Engineering (HVE), Global Competitive Sourcing (GCS) and LEAN Construction Methodologies, etc.
+ Drive full integration of project team to develop deliverables in the most cost effective and efficient way.
+ Execute projects at Midland site and potentially some travel to North America sites.
+ Travel expectation of 10 to 20%.
**Qualifications:**
+ Required: 4-year B.S. in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred).
+ Required: At least 5 years of experience leading capital projects greater than $500,000 and including experience leading capital projects up to $2,000,000.
+ Required: Experience working with full-service design contractors.
+ Desired: Prior experience improving performance and capability and demonstrated courage (need to challenge the status quo).
**Capabilities Required for this Role (Knowledge Skills & Abilities):**
+ Learning agility - A personal drive to learn, pivot when necessary, and adapt to the ever-changing needs of our company in the face of a changing world and customer base.
+ Business judgement - Awareness, understanding, and navigation of our business to enable improvement or development of solutions in your role that improve our business and our customers' experience.
+ Functional skills - The specific skills and experiences needed to deliver and accelerate in your current role and throughout your career. Knowledge of best-in-class capital work processes and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). A deep understanding of capital project estimating processes.
+ Organizational skills - Having and using the knowledge of our organization's systems, procedures, and culture to identify issues and/or opportunities and take action on them in a way that meets the needs of customers and magnifies your impact.
**Behaviors Required for this Role:**
+ Collaborating with others - Empowers purposeful engagement; servant leader; keeps things simple; engages individuals/team to achieve superior results; creates an atmosphere of value-driven outcomes.
+ Accountable - Takes responsibility for actions; communicates with transparency; recovers from mistakes; owns their impact.
+ Inspiring trust - Earns the respect of others; follows through on commitments; authentic; open to feedback; acknowledges and affirms contributions of others.
+ Playing to win - Just won't give up; finds a way when others find excuses; will not let obstacles get in the way; goes beyond tolerating complexity and grey zones.
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_(1)The separation transactions are subject to satisfaction of customary conditions, including final approval by DuPont's Board of Directors, receipt of tax opinion from counsel, the filing and effectiveness of Form 10 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, applicable regulatory approvals, and satisfactory completion of financing.?_ _For further discussion of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could impact the achievement, expected timing and intended benefits of the separation transactions, see DuPont's_ _announcement ( ._