Senior Reliability Engineer

Company: The Dow Chemical Company
Location: Carrollton
Posted on: April 2, 2021

Job Description:

Find and apply to open positions in your areas of interest at Dow locations worldwide. Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Siloxane Reliability Engineer located in Carrollton, KY. The Senior Reliability Engineer facilitates development of the business/facility maintenance strategy, and solves reliability and availability losses through application of reliability technology and tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy. The Senior Reliability Engineer 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. This position requires expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and broadens capabilities.
Core Responsibilities:

• Sets and Achieves plant Reliability targets(i.e. Product Supply Reliability (PSR), Asset Mechanical Reliability (AMR), etc.).
• 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.
• Evaluates effectiveness of individual aspects of the PPM program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM).
• Optimizes PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements.
• Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decrease equipment failure losses in order to meet the site Product Supply Reliability improvement goals for the given year.
• Develops and maintains, as requested, a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement.
• Uses reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA, etc.) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.
• Participates in plant health study and efforts to implement corrective action to maintain or improve plant health.
• Develops and implements the Facility Reliability Strategy.
• Serves as Root Cause Investigation (RCI) Team Leader with proven RCI skills, coaches others in RCI facilitation and ensures strong RCI/CAPA fundamentals are practiced within the unit.
• Provides front end loading support for plant Turnarounds.
• Facilitates and implements the HRO principles within the unit, building strong partnerships and coaching/teaching as needed.
• Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process.
• Assists maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using Global Project Methodology (GPM) work process discipline.
  Required Qualifications:
  • A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years reliability, engineering, manufacturing or related experience is required.
  • 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:
    • Desired experience working with or around Glass-lined equipment, brick-lined equipment or Tantalum-lined equipment. Note: Domestic relocation assistance may be considered for this opportunity.Dow Offers:
      • A robust total rewards program, including: competitive base pay, variable pay that rewards individual, team, and Company performance, and comprehensive benefits
      • On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
      • Career experiences that can span different Dow businesses and functions with opportunities for personal and professional growth
      • The chance to work within a global company and interact with colleagues from around the world
      • Opportunities that spark your imagination and ignite your passion to help others About DowDow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visitwww.dow.com or follow@DowNewsroom on Twitter.As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. 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 contact us at http://www.dow.com/en-us/contact-us or you may call us at 1-800-523-3945. -------Trademark of Dow or an affiliated company of Dow

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