Site Logistics Technical Advisor

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About this role

Dow has an opportunity for a Site Logistics Technical Advisor located in Plaquemine, LA.

This role:

• Serves in a vital role for Site Logistics, utilizing process knowledge, technical expertise, and site logistics experience to assist, teach and coach plant personnel.

• Focuses on troubleshooting process or equipment issues, improving process performance, and increasing site logistics reliability.

• Typically responsible for a larger plant or facility.

• Requires advanced skills and expertise in a range of administrative, data organization or coordination processes, procedures and systems, or specialized technical expertise within an analytical/scientific method or operational process to perform a broad range of complex work assignments.

In this role, you will require advanced level of skills and expertise in administrative, data organization, and coordination processes, procedures, and associated systems or specialized technical expertise with analytical/scientific methods or operational processes. You should be able to perform a broad range of complex assignments and understand how teams coordinate efforts and resources to achieve organizational objectives. You will need to have the ability to evaluate and explain unusual and/or complex information use tact and diplomacy when communicating with others.

It is your responsibility to be able to gather and analyze data to identify and resolve unique, complex, or unusual problems. You will be required to provide subject matter guidance to less experienced team members and serve as a specialist or lead for the team with no formal supervisory responsibilities. Your performance impacts your own team and other teams with closely related work activities. You are expected to suggest improvements to existing processes and solutions to improve overall team efficiency.

Responsibilities – Duties, projects, tasks, and activities you would be responsible for in this role

• Acts as a technical/process subject matter resource in the assigned site logistics area

• Performs or assists in process related root cause or failure analysis. Leverages and communicates the results to operate site logistics personnel for learning purposes. Ensures thorough and timely pre-investigations occur

• Works with continuous improvement and site logistics resources to identify, implement and sustain improvements relating to area of expertise

• Develops and maintain site logistics process training material content and qualification assessments

• Maintains a high involvement in the formal training process and qualification of team members on site logistics process

• Develops a strong partnership with the site logistics activity coordinator/gate keeper and provides back up to these roles, as needed

• Maintains “on call” status for plant unplanned events, emergencies and advising

• Owns and coaches others on the effective use of logbook, focusing on quality of information entered and appropriate note type/stamp utilization

• Participates in available Technical Advising role networks to improve personal effectiveness and leveraging of best practices

• Creates, reviews, modifies and approves site logistics procedures to ensure sound operating discipline

• Partners closely with the site logistics staff to resolve problems, drive continuous improvement, and ensure the site logistics goals are achieved and mentors new site logistics staff as they on-board and train

Qualifications

• A High school Diploma/GED equivalent AND 5 years of relevant work experience OR An Associate’s Degree or higher (or higher) (Applied Science in a relevant field i.e., Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology preferred) OR 3 years relevant military training experience

• Must be eligible for a TWIC card

• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/suppo