Plant Manager

Your Job

INVISTA is seeking a Plant Manager at our Seaford, DE facility, to join our leading industry team. The Plant Manager is an advocate of Koch’s Principle Based Management™ culture, responsible for cultivating a collaborative and solutions-driven workplace that enables employees to excel, optimize their contributions, and fulfil their potential. If you are motivated to develop site capability, improve performance, and pursue long‑term growth and advancement, we want to hear from you!

Our Team

Reporting to the Vice President of Nylon Downstream Operations, the Plant Manager will focus on building site capability by setting vision, strategy, and aligning priorities to achieve operational excellence and deliver superior business results. The Plant Manager is supported by the Site Leadership Team consisting of the Operations, Reliability, Maintenance and Technical Managers.

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 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

• Cultivate high-performing, empowered teams: Champion and apply our Principle Based Management (PBM®) Framework by empowering principled decision‑making, driving accountability, and creating long‑term value through our culture. Lead with a shared vision, align the organizational direction, and enable high-performing, empowered teams to create superior business results.
• Prioritize Safety, Quality & Accountability: Foster a culture of ownership and teamwork to achieve superior safety, quality, and operational outcomes, while improving our EHS and quality risk profile.
• Focus on Leadership and Talent Development: Develop and enable leaders to, in turn, develop and enable their teams, creating the capabilities for a successful operation and the opportunities for fulfilling careers.
• Partner for Business Impact: Collaborate with commercial and functional leaders aligning operations strategies to business priorities and objectives, delivering measurable results.
• Enhance Operations & Asset Reliability: Lead operational, asset health, reliability and maintenance strategies to deliver stable and reliable operations.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Apply lean concepts, foster disciplined use of systems for learning, and quality execution ‘right the first time’ to optimize efficiency and eliminate waste. Enable employees to act and contribute through a bottom-up solution philosophy while recognizing and rewarding individual and team contributions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated manufacturing 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

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a technical or business discipline
• Military service experience particularly in leadership or operational environments
• 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

INVISTA is a global manufacturer of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging, carpet and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life’s essential products to market. A subsidiary of Koch Industries since 2004, INVISTA is committed to innovation and responsibly creating more value for its customers and society while consuming fewer resources to make these products. See the bigger picture at INVISTA.com.

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, aquí, or tu).