Production Coordinator & Unit Leader

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.  

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:

Serves as a vital resource for Operations by applying technical skills to optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems, and enable safe and efficient production of low cost, quality products. Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines to solve complex problems.

Responsibilities as Production Coordinator:

• Extracts production schedule from SAP. Obtains information from the maintenance schedule, equipment/plant availability, resource availability, raw material location, and finished product storage location.
• Evaluates capability to commit to schedule. Develops a plan to resolve exceptions that are covered by Business rules.
• Understands the plan to resolve the exception and the impact on the production schedule and provides appropriate feedback to planning.
• Performs SAP transactions to create and release production order(s), if needed.
• Communicates production instructions to operations personnel. Utilizes knowledge of plant capability, capacity and inventory to ensure daily production targets are met.
• Serves as on call contact for issues regarding production scheduling.
• Ensures site integration issues are resolved.
• Ensures OXO plant integration issues are resolved.

Responsibilities as Unit Leader:

• Responds urgently to plant issues and emergencies.
• Acts as a unit technical expert during unplanned events and drives implementation of effective corrective and preventative actions.
• Provides leadership, expertise, diagnosis, and optimization in plant Raw Material Efficiency, which may include yield or waste generation.
• Ensures compliance with plant operating permits. Understands site integration and provides input to optimize the overall system.
• Works closely with the operations team to solve issues as they arise.
• Collaborates seamlessly with five different OXO units, working alongside five RPEs (Run Plant Engineers) and five TAs (Technical Advisors) to ensure OXO operates efficiently as a whole.
• Keeps abreast of emerging challenges within OXO, assisting the team in prioritizing production needs based on rates and maintenance resources.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree.
• A minimum of 6 years of engineering, manufacturing or related experience.
• 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:

• A degree in engineering.

Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Work at heights, climbs stairs and ladders.
• Wear all required personal protective equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.
• Work in an area of intense or continuous noise.
• Work in an area with hazardous materials.
• Stand or walk for extended periods of time.
• This role does involve elevated work greater than or equal to four feet above the ground.
• Must be able to wear and use personal protective equipment (PPE), including harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300lbs. 

Your Skills:

• Communication: Professional communication, encompasses written, oral, visual and digital communication within a workplace context.
• Operations: Operations are the business activities that a firm engages in to convert materials into finished products or services, sell them to customers, and earn a profit.
• Production Engineering: Production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrica