Senior Reliability Engineer

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About you and this role

Dow has a great and challenging opportunity for a Senior Reliability Engineer to join our location in Plaquemine, LA. You will be responsible for our new FCDh facility.

The Senior Reliability Engineer facilitates development of the business/facility maintenance strategy and solves reliability and availability losses through application of reliability technology and tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy. You will focus 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, reliability models and other evaluations. Therefore, you need to have an expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in your own job discipline while also broadening your capabilities. 

Responsibilities

• Sets and Achieves plant PSR targets.
• Creates Equipment Reliability Strategies based upon Top Opportunity List, Critical Equipment List, and identified plant/business needs.
• Validates ERS implementation and closes gaps to improve/sustain reliability improvement.
• Evaluates effectiveness of individual aspects of the PPM program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM).
• Optimizes PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements.
• Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decrease equipment failure losses in order to meet the site Product Supply Reliability improvement goals for the given year.
• Develops and maintains, as requested, a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement.
• Uses reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.
• Participates in plant health study and efforts to implement corrective action to maintain or improve plant health.
• Develops and implements the Facility Reliability Strategy.
• Serves as RCI Team Leader with proven RCI skills, coaches others in RCI facilitation and ensures strong RCI/CAPA fundamentals are practiced within the unit.
• Provides front end loading support for plant Turnarounds.
• Facilitates the Reliability Team and implement of the HRO principles within the unit, building strong partnerships and coaching/teaching as needed.
• Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process.
• Assists maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using GPM work process discipline.

Deliverables

• Successful implementation of reliability plans.
• ERS Implementation.
• ROL Completion.
• PPM optimization.
• HRO Principles.
• PSR performance against targets.
• Increase use of Analytics Utilization to drive reliability improvements.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 ranking OR Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class ranking.
• A minimum of 6 years' of relevant experience.
• Must possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. For information on TWIC eligibility requirements, please see: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic (If unable to access link, copy and paste in your browser).
• 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 Qualifications

• Strong knowledge about industry equipment.
• Positive outlook and demonstrated ability to drive change.
• Demonstrated facilitative leadership such as team leader for a pro