Production Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Production Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper in Hayward, CA!

About you and this role - What you will do in this role

The Production Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper works with Plant personnel and expertise centers to coordinate, prioritize and schedule Plant activities. You would ensures that value added and complete service requests are generated. Understand the plant strategy, budget, business objectives, value added criteria and day to day operations. Enables seamless integration between operations and service providers. Requires advanced skills and expertise in a range of processes, procedures, and systems, and/or specialized technical expertise within an analytical/scientific method or operational process to perform a broad range of complex work assignments. 

Responsibilities - Duties, projects, tasks, and activities you would be responsible for in this role

• Provides Task List and Operating the Plant Role utilization data and timing into the Operations Dashboard (OPD)for use in determining normal staffing.
• Ensures operational tasks are value added, clearly defined, scheduled and completed.
• Determines if procedures and plans for new service requests are aligned.
• Reviews work status with service providers and work originators.
• Coordinates work from functional support organizations to be performed by operations personnel.
• Acts as plant liaison to functional support organizations for general activities and sharing of core plant personnel.
• Ensures appropriate operational resources are allocated to perform operational tasks and activities.
• Utilizes, updates and adjusts the OPD-Task List to schedule plant activities that impact operations.
• Works with Turnaround team to ensure start-up and shut-down tasks align with plant operations activities.
• Participates in development/monitoring of the maintenance budget and applies status/forecast as an input to manage maintenance work in the facility.
• Collects and/or reviews process data for improvement purposes and corrective actions.
• Works with plant and maintenance resources to ensure plant specific compliance activities are scheduled and completed to maintain compliance.
• Develops a strong partnership with the technical advisors and provides back up to these roles, as needed.
• Maintains “on call” status for plant unplanned events, emergencies and advising.
• Participates in activity coordinator networks to improve effectiveness in role and leveraging of best practices, as available.

Qualifications - Required education, experience and abilities that are needed for this role (must haves)

• An Associate's Degree or higher, in Process Technology or related field. In lieu of degree, equivalent 10 years of manufacturing 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 Skills - An expanded list of qualifications that are "nice to have", but not essential

• Process operations, Manufacturing or other related experience.

For positions based in California, Dow is required by law to include the pay scale that is reasonably expected to represent the pay range for the position. This pay range is specific to the State of California and accounts for both new and experienced employees with consideration to factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, and sustained job performance (or similar jobs).

A reasonable hourly base pay range for this position is:  $34.04 – $60.58. For those employees who are eligible for overtime pay, payment will be made under the provisions of federal and state law (typically, 1.5X of your regular hourly rate).

Note: Domestic relocation assistance is available for this role and may be provided based on eligibility.

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