Senior Production Engineer
About the role
Dow
Engineer
Ardmore, OK
Responsibilities
- Partner with operations, maintenance, and subject matter experts to solve problems, apply plant knowledge, and optimize performance.
- Apply and continuously improve Most Effective Technology (MET), process automation, and operating discipline to drive safe, efficient, and reliable operations.
- Lead advanced troubleshooting and root cause investigations for asset utilization losses, equipment failures, and unplanned events, and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Maintain a strong field presence and provide technical guidance during procedure development, review, and reinforcement of critical operating steps and precautions.
- Monitor daily process data, alarm history, and key process indicators to identify opportunities to improve plant performance, yield, operating rates, and waste reduction.
- Support compliance with operating permits and provide input to optimize site integration and overall system performance.
- Provide engineering support for critical equipment repairs, preventive maintenance, spare parts strategy, and work packages, including repair details, standards compliance, and technical support for deviations.
- Contribute engineering input to turnaround planning, work orders, equipment reliability analysis, purchasing requirements, and vendor performance evaluation.
- Ensure repair methods, equipment-specific training, and technical documentation are maintained and available.
- Respond urgently to plant issues and emergencies as a technical resource.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering. Mechanical engineering preferred.
- A minimum of 3 years' experience in engineering, manufacturing, or related fields.
- 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.
Your Skills
Technical Work
Problem-Solving
Leadership
Continuous Improvement Management
Interpersonal Communication
Customer Focused
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Physical Requirements
Willing and able to meet the physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Wear safety equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.
- Wear and use respirators.
- Perform frequent bending, reaching, and lifting.
- 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.
Additional Note
- Domestic relocation assistance is available for this role and may be provided based on eligibility.
- This is an onsite position in Ardmore, OK
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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
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