Production Manager

Your Job

INVISTA is seeking a Production Manager at our Seaford, DE facility to join our industry-leading team. Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Production Manager will focus on building plant capability by empowering employees, driving strategy execution, and aligning priorities to achieve operational excellence. This role involves fostering a collaborative, solutions-oriented environment where employees can succeed, maximize their contributions, and reach their full potential. If you are passionate about developing site capability, driving performance, and seeking long-term growth and advancement opportunities, we'd like to hear from you.

Our Team

Since 1939, the INVISTA Performance Solutions Seaford site continues to be a world class manufacturing facility with ~ 135 employees, which manufactures Nylon 6,6 staple fiber. The Seaford plant holds a rich industrial legacy. It was the world's first nylon plant-earning Seaford the nickname "Nylon Capital of the World". The facility spans 750 acres along the Nanticoke River. The site primarily supports INVISTA's nylon fibers business, producing materials for military uniforms, flame-resistant workwear, and industrial applications like press felts for paper manufacturing.

What You Will Do

• Leverage Principle Based Management (PBM) Framework: Lead with a shared site vision, establish organizational direction, and cultivate high-performing, empowered teams to drive business results and continuous improvement.
• Prioritize Safety, Quality & Accountability: Foster a culture of ownership and teamwork to achieve superior safety, quality, and operational outcomes, while addressing and improving unsafe conditions.
• Focus on Talent Development: Build a strong talent pipeline by coaching, developing leaders, and enhancing workforce capabilities, ensuring feedback, performance appraisal, and accountability.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Apply lean manufacturing principles, foster disciplined use of systems for learning, and execute processes right the first time to optimize efficiency and minimize waste.
• Partner for Business Impact: Collaborate with commercial and functional leaders to align critical and economic thinking with business objectives, delivering measurable results.
• Enhance Operations & Asset Reliability: Lead operational initiatives, shift maintenance, and asset strategies to maximize capability and ensure sustainable operational excellence.
• Empower Employee-Centric Culture: Enable employees to act and contribute value through a bottoms-up philosophy while recognizing and rewarding individual and team contributions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Leadership experience with direct reports in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience leading integrated teams to identify and capture strategic business improvement opportunities
• Experience leading transformational improvement strategies through people, process and technology innovations
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a technical or business discipline
• Military service experience
• Experience in high performance safety and/or quality critical industries

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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