Operations Lab Manager
DuPont
- Newark, DE
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as a role model for EH&S, share learning, and ensure follow-up on incident investigations.
- Facilitate analytical requests, negotiate for resources, and direct work to the proper group
- Monitor the progress of requests and address barriers
- Leverage best practices and analytical applications across Analytical Technologies
- Proactively communicate with business, function, and site roles on development of Service Level Agreements and analytical issues
- Oversee and lead troubleshooting efforts on analytical tools as required.
- Provide coaching to the team on lab data analysis techniques like measurement system analysis, control charting, etc.
- Develop, implement and track progress of the Site Operations Analytical Strategy
- Identify and communicate opportunities for new and improved analytical technology
- Facilitate the identification of opportunities and implementation of improvements
- Represent Analytical Technologies on multidisciplinary analytical projects.
- Coordinate resources for analytical projects and activities.
- Provide people leadership for analytical roles.
- Lead or participate in capital planning for analytical equipment.
- Facilitate alignment of people resources to business projects and monitor progress
- Coach and mentor new team members and assist in recruiting.
- Model EH&S behavior.
- Excellent Interpersonal Effectiveness.
- High Initiative and Drive.
- Service minded attitude.
- Desire and talent to learn People Management Skills, and apply these to promote people development.
- Able to deal with different functional cultures.
- Knowledge of and experience in wet chemistry, chromatography, microscopy, spectroscopy, mechanical testing, and surface characterization
- Ensure EH&S is the top priority and performance is acceptable
- Establish the Site Operations Analytical Strategy.
- Provide technical expertise on analytical technology and capabilities to resolve raw material, process, product and analytical problems and identify opportunities for improved technology
- Implement technology which adds value to the businesses
- Build a People Centric Performance Culture
- Optimize cost-competitiveness of analytical services
- Ensure continual improvement in the labs
- Ensure delivery of timely and accurate analytical results per the Sample Plan and Service Level Agreements
- B.Sc. or higher education in a chemistry related field.
- 8(+) Years experience in a technical and/or plant related role.
- Six Sigma training requirement: Green Belt Project Leader certification or Black Belt certification recommended