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Reliability Manager

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Position:Reliability Manager

Primary Location:Plaquemine (LA, USA), Louisiana, United States of America

Schedule:Full time

Date Posted:06/19/2024

Job Number:R2052926

Position Type:Regular

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

Dowhas an exciting and challenging opportunity available for aReliability Managerlocated inPlaquemine, Louisiana.

The Reliability Manager serves as Reliability steward to ensure sustained reliability improvement through utilization of proven reliability practices and techniques. Focuses 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. Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Sets and Achieves plant Product Supply Reliability (PSR) targets.

• Creates Equipment Reliability Strategies (ERS) based upon Top Opportunity List, Critical Equipment List, and identified plant/business needs.

• Validates ERS implementation and closes gaps to improve/sustain reliability improvement.

• Develops and maintains extended ERS plan in conjunction with Business Reliability partners. Supports ERS leveraging ensuring validation, value capture and fidelity of implementation.

• Changes existing PPM programs and/or develops new ones based on definitive analysis of cost and benefits.

• Serves as the SME for equipment prioritization.

• Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decrease equipment failure losses and leverages those solutions both into and out of the facility. Ensures consistency in the Reliability Opportunity List process.

• Develops and maintains a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement.

• Serves as Reliability SME and coaches others in the use of reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.

• Develops and implement the Facility Reliability Strategy and provides input into the Business Reliability Strategy.

• Recognized RCI SME, coaches others on RCI excellence. Performs critical RCIs at other plants when requested.

• Provides front end loading support for plant Turnarounds.

• Facilitates the Reliability Team and implement of the Highly Reliable Organization (HRO) principles within the unit, building strong partnerships and coaching/teaching as needed.

• Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process.

• Represents the facility in business reliability teams and initiatives.

• Identifies key learning with significant value and leverage across the site reliability network through Learning Experience Reports (LER).

Deliverables

• Successful implementation of reliability plans.

• Equipment Reliability Strategy (ERS) Implementation.

• Reliability Opportunity List (ROL) Completion.

• PPM optimization.

• Highly Reliable Organization (HRO) Principles.

• Product Supply Reliability (PSR) performance against targets.

• Increase use of Analytics Utilization to drive reliability improvements.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or at or above a U.S. E6 ranking or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant (PO2/Sgt) Military ranking.

• Minimum 6 years previous experience in reliability, engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, or related experience.

• Must possess a TWIC cardorbe 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.

Willing and able to meet physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Wear safety equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.

• Work in tight or closed-in spaces.

• Climb stairs/ladders and work high off the ground.

• Stand or walk for extended periods of time.

• This role does involve elevated work greater than or equal to four feet above the ground.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge about work process such as production / maintenance / turnaround.

• Experience with SAP, APM, and Root Cause Analysis.

• Positive outlook and demonstrated ability to drive change.

• Strong knowledge about industry equipment.

• Being proficient in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Excel.

• Demonstrating competencies in the areas of leadership, initiative, teamwork, and interpersonal effectiveness.

• Strong work ethic and being able to remain productive in an empowered team environment.

• Ensuring a safe work environment by working safely and complying with environmental, health and safety standards.

Additional notes

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

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.

• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.

• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.

• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.

• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.

• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:

• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).

• ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.

• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visitingwww.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available onwww.dow.com.

Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.