CMPT Polymerics NA/EUR Transformation Program Leader

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The CMPT Manufacturing Technology organization is seeking a Manufacturing Technology Program Leader, based in Newark, Delaware, to lead complex, cross-functional programs that improve and expand manufacturing capability and capacity of our Polymerics process. Reporting to the Global Manufacturing Technology Director, this role is accountable for translating business and manufacturing needs into well-defined technical programs and driving those programs from concept through implementation and sustained operation.
The Polymerics Transformation Program Leader is a working technical program leader. The position combines program leadership across multiple functions with sufficient technical depth to identify risks, challenge assumptions, drive decisions, and personally engage in the most consequential technical and execution issues. Success is measured by safe and compliant execution, delivery of program objectives, effective management of scope, schedule, cost, and technical risk, and the successful transition of solutions into manufacturing.
This role leads primarily through influence, coordinating engineers, technical specialists, manufacturing resources, project teams, suppliers, and other partners. The Program Leader establishes clear priorities, ensures appropriate technical rigor, resolves barriers and competing priorities, and maintains alignment between program execution and the broader manufacturing technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Leadership and Execution

• Lead complex manufacturing technology programs from early definition through implementation, start-up, qualification, and transition to sustained operation.
• Translate business and manufacturing needs into clear program objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, resource requirements, and success criteria.
• Establish and maintain integrated program plans across technical disciplines and functional organizations.
• Drive execution against scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and technical performance expectations.
• Identify technical and execution risks early, establish mitigation plans, and ensure appropriate escalation and decision-making.
• Lead cross-functional teams through influence, creating clarity of ownership and accountability across organizations.
• Maintain effective program governance, including progress reviews, decision points, risk discussions, and communication with key stakeholders.
• Coordinate interdependent workstreams and ensure that decisions in one area are understood and addressed across the broader program.
• While the primary scope of this role is in North America, there will be heavy collaboration and alignment with regional counterparts to drive Most Effective Technology (MET) and Site Matching.

Technical and Manufacturing Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and judgment across programs ranging from incremental improvements to significant changes in manufacturing capability.
• Ensure technical solutions are appropriately defined, evaluated, documented, and demonstrated before implementation.
• Work with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, EHS, R&D, and other technical organizations to integrate requirements into executable solutions.
• Lead resolution of significant technical issues that threaten program objectives, drawing on subject-matter experts and broader organizational capability as needed.
• Ensure operability, reliability, maintainability, quality, and lifecycle considerations are incorporated into program decisions.
• Establish technical readiness and acceptance criteria and ensure solutions are effectively transitioned to manufacturing ownership.
• Promote the use of proven technology, engineering practices, and lessons learned across programs and manufacturing locations.

Project and Capital Integration

• Provide Manufacturing Technology leadership for programs involving capital investment, new or modified manufacturing capability, and significant process or equipment improvements.
• Define and maintain the technical basis required to enable effective project development and execution.
• Partner with engineering and project organizations to align manufacturing requirements with engineered solutions.
• Represent Manufacturing Technology in project definition, technical reviews, design decisions, acceptance activities, commissioning, start-up, and turnover.
• Ensure technical changes are managed through appropriate safety, quality, and change-management processes.
• Drive alignment between technical readiness and project execution so installed solutions achieve the intended manufacturing outcome.
• Work with internal and external partners to resolve technical, supplier, resource, and execution barriers.

Strategy, Stakeholder Alignment, and Continuous Improvement

• Connect individual programs to broader manufacturing technology and business priorities.
• Provide clear, concise communication of program status, risks, decisions, and resource needs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Reconcile competing technical and organizational priorities while maintaining focus on the overall program outcome.
• Build effective working relationships across functions, manufacturing locations, technical organizations, and external partners.
• Capture and transfer learning from completed work to improve execution of future programs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify execution, improve standardization, leverage existing capabilities, and accelerate delivery without compromising safety, quality, or technical rigor.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical preferred), science, or other relevant technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment, including leadership of complex technical projects or programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and deliver results through influence.
• Experience translating manufacturing or business needs into executable technical scopes and plans.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex technical and execution issues.
• Strong project or program management capability, including management of scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and business leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in an appropriate engineering (Mechanical, Chemical or Electrical preferred), science, business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience leading significant manufacturing technology, capital, capacity, modernization, scale-up, or technology implementation programs.
• Experience taking manufacturing solutions from concept through design, commissioning, qualification, start-up, and sustained operation.
• Experience working across multiple engineering and technical disciplines.
• Experience working with external engineering partners, equipment suppliers, or technology providers.
• Familiarity with structured continuous-improvement and problem-solving methodologies.
• Experience working in a regulated, process-safety-managed, or similarly rigorous manufacturing environment.
• Formal project or program management training or certification.
• Six Sigma or Lean training and certification

Core Competencies

• Technical leadership: Understands complex manufacturing systems well enough to challenge assumptions, integrate technical perspectives, and drive sound decisions.
• Technical expertise: Able to develop technical solutions to business problems and oversee their execution via scale-up, capital implementation, or other.
• Program leadership: Creates structure and momentum across complex work with multiple organizations, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Execution: Converts strategy and technical intent into practical deliverables and drives work through completion.
• Influential leadership: Achieves results across organizational boundaries without relying solely on positional authority.
• Risk management: Recognizes technical and execution risks early and drives appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Communication: Distills complex technical and program information into clear decisions, actions, and expectations.
• Manufacturing mindset: Maintains focus on safe, reliable, sustainable manufacturing outcomes rather than project completion alone.

Key Behaviors

• Inspiring trust: Earns credibility through sound judgment, transparency, follow-through, and respect for others' expertise.
• Accountable: Takes ownership for program outcomes and ensures commitments, decisions, and actions are clear.
• Collaborative: Builds effective partnerships across organizational and technical boundaries.
• Decisive: Drives timely decisions using the best available technical and business information.
• Adaptable: Maintains focus and effectiveness as priorities, constraints, and technical information evolve.

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