Resins Sr. Production Engineer

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Production Engineer, located in Midland, MI. This opportunity is in Michigan Operations at the following building: Resins (321).

About you and this role:

This position serves as a vital resource for Operations by applying technical skills to optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems, drive continuous improvement, and enable safe and efficient production. This role requires broadened conceptual and working knowledge and experience in job discipline to perform a range of work assignments.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with the operations team leveraging their problem solving skills and technical expertise.
• Elevates and appropriately applies knowledge of the plant and technology referencing historical data and conferring with Technology Center or other subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Ensures Most Effective Technology (MET) is understood and utilized and that process automation is used as a tool to optimize plant performance.
• Utilizes defined MET and challenges/escalates MET application and assumptions when better solutions arise.
• Partners with experts to perform advanced troubleshooting and improve and document operating discipline.
• Diagnoses and documents root causes of asset utilization losses in the facility.
• Understands why specific procedure steps and precautions are needed and keeps a strong field presence to reinforce the importance.
• Conducts daily review of logbook and alarm history to better understand the plant operation and stay engaged with daily activities.
• Maintains, owns, and reviews daily Key Process Indicators (KPI)/ trends to ensure optimum performance.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• A minimum of 3 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.

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.
• Work in an area with hazardous materials.

Preferred Skills:

• Teamwork: Individual will be part of a team that collaborates together to deliver most effective solution for an operations team.
• Troubleshooting: Ability to work through a systematic approach that is data driven to identify potential root causes and resolve problems efficiently.  Troubleshooting equipment and quality issues.
• Data Analysis: The ability to pull, analyze, and make decisions based on quantitative process data.
• Process Safety: Process safety focuses on preventing fires, explosions and accidental chemical releases in chemical process facilities or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials.
• Technical Skills: Ability to learn basic chemistry and apply knowledge to assist in troubleshooting quality issues.  Understanding of basic process technology: pumps, instrumentation, distillation, etc.

Note: This position does not offer relocation assistance.

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