Senior Reliability Engineer

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Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place. 

About you and this role -

You are a team player that requires minimal supervision. You can lead by influence and collaborate with people of various backgrounds and experiences to achieve common goals.  As a Reliability Manager, you will align to the Dow Industrial Solutions Business Reliability Leader and be a member of the Amines & Oxygenated Solvents business global network.  You will partner with Operations, Maintenance, and the Business Reliability team to define and implement the proper reliability strategy for the Ethylene Oxide Derivative facilities in Seadrift, Texas.

You will lead the collaborative effort to ensure sustained reliability improvement through utilization of proven reliability practices and techniques.  You have a strategic role that focuses on those opportunities that over a long-term period or historically have impacted the plant’s measured asset capability and the opportunities identified as "high-risk" in risk assessments or other evaluations. You will heavily influence budget needs and spending of approved funds to support the long-term reliability improvement.   

Responsibilities -

• Leading Setting of and Achievement of plant Reliability targets.
• Understanding the purpose and technical details of the equipment in the facility to properly define the optimized reliability strategy for critical equipment.
• Developing and implementing the Facility Reliability Strategy.
• Serving as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for equipment prioritization.
• Identifying and collaborating with others to resolve Top Reliability Opportunities
• Facilitating the annual maintenance budget setting process and tracking project and spending progress
• Performing critical Root Cause Investigations
• Creating Equipment Reliability Strategies based upon Top Plant Opportunities.
• Working with others to provide front end loading for plant Turnarounds.
• Facilitating the plant’s Reliability Team and helping foster the use of Highly Reliable Organization (HRO) principles within the unit.
• Representing the facility in the business reliability teams and initiatives.
• Identifying key learning with significant value and leverage across the business reliability network.
• Serve as Reliability Subject Matter Expert and when needed, uses reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.

Qualifications -

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering.
• A minimum of 5 years reliability, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance or related experience required.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Skills -

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Relocation Assistance-

• This position does offer domestic relocation assistance and will be provided based on eligibility.

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
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