Large Capital Project Team Leader

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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.

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The Electronics & Industrial (E&I) business unit is seeking a Project Team Leader (PTL) to manage large capital projects (>US$5MM). The desired location is Wilmington, DE. This role will report to the Global Business Engineering Manager for E&I. Successful candidates would be expected to manage 1-3 large projects with support from the E&I leveraged business engineering team and full-service design contractors (FSDC) and/or selected design-build providers.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and organize the Project Leadership Team
• Ensure all non-capital alternatives to capital expenditure are evaluated.
• Accountable to the business for project success
• Use BOL to develop POL and Project Basis
• Accountable for POL, alignment with BOL
• Accountable for acquiring and releasing all project resources.
• Establish effective communications within the Integrated Project Team to insure alignment on objectives and the PDB.
• Lead development of R&R for the project and project RACI diagrams
• Manage overall project expenditures and schedule to satisfy BOL.
• Set Project Leadership Team overall direction and expectations.
• Manage "Management of Change" procedure.
• Accountable for overall integrated project schedule
• Accountable for total project cost and investment
• Provide primary interface between the Project Leadership Team and the Business Unit Steering Team
• Drive capital project work processes and practices per DuPont GPS
• Lead all Gatekeeping reviews and ensure all project deliverables are met.
• Lead development and validation of project economics

Strong leadership skills:

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Understanding of business, technology, and manufacturing work processes with ability to develop option/ scenarios and drive alignment of solution.
• Excellent communication skills
• Understanding of functions and disciplines required for capital project execution.
• Overall understanding of project process from FEL-1 through check out and startup and of the DuPont Global Project System
• Understanding of DuPont capital and non-capital funding practices, appropriation rules, and project control techniques
• Basic understanding of manufacturing technology/processes, plant operations, and maintenance strategies
• Conflict resolution skills
• Up to 50% Travel as needed to manage project scope. This can include design reviews at off-site locations, vendor meetings or shop visits, tours of sister sites/processes, contractor selection and/or bid meetings, and other travel as dictated by project needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or a closely related field.
• 7 years of related experience working in a similar global role.

• Experience managing third party contractors / suppliers.
• Prior experience working as a project PTL or large project Project Engineer/Manager. Candidates with large project PTL experience will be given preference.
• Experience working with Business teams and developing execution strategies and options evaluations in early Front-end loading activities.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams.

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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.