What are the responsibilities and job description for the PSL Planner/WAC position at Dow?
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About You and this Role
Role will cover all of PSL which includes PSL North (B-3702) PSL South (B-9365) and all rail loading structures that support Poly Blocks within Plant B.
Creates job packages from the work order scope which contains all of the information regarding required labor material and services to ensure safe, effective and efficient execution of the work. Ensures work activities are carried out safely in an effective and efficient way. Manages productivity of the team that performs the task. Requires broadened technical skills in analytical/scientific methods or operational processes to perform a defined array of activities. May act as an informal resource for team members with less experience.
Responsibilities
- Uses feedback from the person doing the work to optimize the work plans.
- Reviews work orders for technical completeness and returns work orders to gatekeeper, if not complete.
- Carries out field checks, when needed.
- Prepares job package and inputs plan into SAP indicating the required resources, materials, and services.
- Maintain and manage a backlog in line with operations expectations
- Use Dow's Global Maintenance Work Process to ensure an efficient use of resources for executing work
- Conduct morning tailgates with maintenance team prior to work starting
- Assists in allocation of resources for resource leveraging.
- Initiates the work permit procedure.
- Reports the progress of the daily work to enable adjustments to the work schedule when needed. Reviews work status with service providers and originators and adjusts schedule as required.
- Reassigns person scheduled to perform work to the next job, in the event the equipment is not prepared for maintenance on originally assigned job.
- Confirms that all scheduled job sequences, work and paperwork for the job have all been completed. Closes work order.
- Returns equipment to operations.
- Performs the role of shift procedure use focal point for maintenance activity.
- For Priority Work, serves as a planner and follows the planner responsibilities.
- Coaches crafts persons when completed procedures/checklists/equipment repair forms are not filled out correctly.
- Conducts field audits to assure procedures are being used according to the local Maintenance Procedure Use Policy.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED is required.
- 5 or more years of industrial maintenance or operations experience.
- Overtime required after-hours (nights, weekends and holidays), depending on work to be done.
- Must be willing to work weekends, and holidays, if required.
- Must have a current, valid US driver’s license.
- 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 Qualifications
- Previous experience in a Planner role.
- Previous experience in WAC role.
- Craft experience.
- Working knowledge of SAP and Primavera.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
Your Skills
- Maintenance Management: Full proficiency in a range of technical, operational, or analytical/scientific processes and procedures through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience.
- Strategic Planning: Assisting in the allocation of resources for resource leveraging and managing the productivity of the team performing the tasks.
- Communication: Reporting the progress of daily work, reviewing work status with service providers and originators, and adjusting schedules as required.
- Prioritization: Reviewing job packages, initiating work permit procedures, confirming that all scheduled job sequences and paperwork are completed, and conducting field audits to ensure procedures are followed.
- Employee Coaching: Acting as an informal resource for team members with less experience and coaching crafts persons when procedures/checklists/equipment repair forms are not filled out correctly.
Additional Notes
- No relocation assistance is available for this position.
Physical Requirements
- This role does involve elevated work greater than or equal to four feet above the ground. Must be able to wear and use personal protective equipment (PPE), including harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300lbs.
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, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
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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.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
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Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- 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.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- 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.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- 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.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
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Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (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
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