Senior Reliability Engineer

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Reliability Engineer located in Carrollton, KY!

About you and this role

You will facilitate development of the business/facility reliability strategy and solve reliability and availability losses through application of reliability technology and tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy. Your focus will be 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. This requires expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in the job discipline and broadened capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Set and Achieve plant PSR targets.
• Create Equipment Reliability Strategies based upon Top Opportunity List, Critical Equipment List, and identified plant/business needs.
• Validate ERS implementation and close gaps to improve/sustain reliability improvement.
• Evaluate effectiveness of individual aspects of the PPM program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM).
• Optimize PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements.
• Identify 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.
• Develop and maintain, as requested, a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement.
• Use reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.
• Participate in plant health study and efforts to implement corrective action to maintain or improve plant health.
• Develop and implement the Facility Reliability Strategy.
• Serve as RCI Team Leader with proven RCI skills, coach others in RCI facilitation and ensure strong RCI/CAPA fundamentals are practiced within the unit.
• Provide front end loading support for plant Turnarounds.
• Facilitate the Reliability Team and implement of the HRO principles within the unit, building strong partnerships and coaching/teaching as needed.
• Facilitate the annual maintenance budget setting process.
• Assist maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using GPM work process discipline.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering (chemical or mechanical engineering preferred).
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant working 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 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.

Additional Notes

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position and may be provided based on eligibility.

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