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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.

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We are hiring a Project Team Leader.

The Project Team leader is 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 PTL provides the primary interface between the Project Leadership Team and the Business and leads all necessary communication forums.

This position will be located at the Newark-Tralee Park site in support of the Kalrez(R) business in Electronics and Industrial Solutions SBU.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Leads project teams often consisting of cross functional teams and 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.

Leads project teams often consisting of cross functional teams and 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.

Qualifications

• Required: 4-year B.S. in engineering (Chemical or Mechanical preferred).

• Required: 2 - 10 years of experience

• Required: Experience managing projects $25,000 to 2 million

• Required: Experience managing 3rd party contractors / suppliers

• Required: Experience with MS Office suite

• Desired: Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks; Willing and able to effectively delegate

• Desired: Prior experience improving performance and capability.

• Desired: A bias for execution, results oriented, and demonstrated courage (need to challenge the status quo).

• Desired: Strong leadership skills, ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a changing environment to meet challenging business needs.

• Desired: A deep understanding of capital project controls processes.

• Knowledge of best-in-class capital work processes and KPI’s.

• Good organization, interpersonal and communication skills.

• Experience with SAP/R3 PS, Documentum, SOX project reconciliation, MS Project, 3D Modeling Software and ICARUS a plus.

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