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 ...