What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Engineer position at Dow?
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About You and this Role
Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Production Engineer located in Beaumont, TX.
The Beaumont site is home to Dow's only North American Nitrobenzene and Aniline facilities. These products are critical for Dow's Polyurethane business and downstream plants in the large integrated Dow Freeport site. The Nitrobenzene plant was recently modernized, and the Aniline plant is undergoing the final stages of modernization as part of a large Site wide capital program.
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 broadened conceptual and working knowledge, excellent interpersonal skills and experience in job discipline to perform a range of work assignments.
Responsibilities
- Maintains, owns, and reviews daily Key Process Indicators (KPI) / trends to ensure optimum performance.
- Works closely with the operations team leveraging their problem-solving skills and technical expertise.
- 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.
- Conducts daily review of logbook and alarm history to better understand the plant operation and stay engaged with daily activities.
- 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.
- Understands why specific procedure steps and precautions are needed and keeps a strong field presence to reinforce the importance.
- 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.
- Diagnoses and documents root causes of asset utilization losses in the facility.
Requirements
Preferred Skills
Your Skills
Additional Notes
Physical Requirements
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 :
Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees' Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
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 visiting www.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 on www.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.
