Process Automation Manager

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Our Purpose

Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity.

We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company.

• Employing 36,500 individuals
• Across 109 manufacturing sites
• In over 31 countries
  

Our portfolio of products and solutions include:

• Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants.
• Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives and lubricants, and more.
• Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability
• Silicone businesses: Our silicone-based materials can withstand more demanding applications, from those operating at extreme temperatures, to those under harsh environmental conditions for long periods of time.
  

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We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this?

Dow’s Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP) Technology Center has an opening for aProcess Automation Manager to support Solution PE technology.

P&SP is the highest revenue-generating business in the company and a worldwide leader in the production, marketing, and innovation of polyethylene, polyolefin elastomers, and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber. The P&SP business contributes greater than 70% of Dow’s total corporate earnings and plans to continue building new world-scale polyethylene production facilities and debottlenecking existing facilities in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

About You

In this role, you will support Solution PE plants and projects globally, which includes green field projects like world scale TX- Poly 7 in Freeport, the world’s first net zero carbon emission petrochemical complex project in Fort Saskatchewan Alberta, Canada.

You will serve as a technical associate or a process automation lead for small through large capital and improvement projects regionally and/or globally, direct and leads both Dow and contract resources and be involved in all three phases of projects: front end loading, detailed design and construction, and commissioning and startup.

You will recognize within the discipline and geography for the expertise and participates in global teams. Leverages technical know-how and implements best practice applications within an area of expertise of a discipline themselves and by providing technical coaching, consulting, and support for others within the site and region.

Responsibilities / Duties

In a project leadership capacity:

• Establishes project goals and planning. Tracks progress, schedules, and costs for the PA team during all project phases.
• Completes technical review of the control teamwork and provide coaching/corrective feedback.
• Determines testing scenarios and oversees the simulation of the control system to test the strategy and improvements.
• Works with other engineers to determine the project and control requirements.
• Creates the process control overview for the project and develops user requirement system specifications.
• Estimates the process control cost and schedule for the project and manage against these baselines.
• Accountable for Developing functional requirement specification (FRS) for the system and creates detailed requirement specifications (DRS), including both the safety and control systems, as well as design and implementation of the basic process control system (BPCS)
• Develops control software, operator graphics and simulation software.
• Completes the factory acceptance test (FAT) Commissioning.
• Provides training of operations and support commissioning and start-up of the new asset.
• Leads the coordination with the global discipline technical experts to ensure MET is applied and/or variances are indicated and worked through in a timely manner.
  

In a Technical associate capacity:

• Provides technical support, coaching and consulting for project teams, operations, maintenance, and other technology centers.
• Identifies and develops both technology and work process enhancements which deliver value.
• Supports the implementation of discipline technology strategy and provides input/feedback on the strategy in specific area of expertise.
• Serves as site or regional technology focal point, providing timely technical reviews and input to complex designs and/or any variances from MET on capital projects or in support of maintenance/operations.
  

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical is preferred)
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience (i.e. process automation, engineering, manufacturing, or related)
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 25% annually to support project needs and meet all applicable requirements related to business travel (e.g., as to immigration and visa rules, public-health mandates, airline rules, etc.) into and out of (and physical presence in) various countries worldwide.
• Applicable to U.S. Applicants Only: Possession of a TWIC card or eligibility to obtain a TWIC card may be required for this position based on final hiring location. 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.)
• Applicable to Applicants Located in North America Only: A minimum requirement for this position is the ability to work legally in the United States or Canada. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of permanent residency (green card) process.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Packaging & Specialty Plastics technology is an advantage.
• Experience in large capital projects and Mod5 migration projects.
• Proficiency in Process Automation application development in ABB or Mod5 platform
• Demonstrated ability to lead by influence and to work across multiple cultures/time zones.
  

Additional Notes:

• This role may be performed at any of Dow’s major Plastics & Specialty Plastics locations (Freeport, Houston, Plaquemine, Fort Saskatchewan, Bahia Blanca, Terneuzen, Tarragona, Schkopau).
• This position does not offer relocation assistance
  

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 Dow

Dow (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, with a purpose to deliver a sustainable future for the world through our materials science expertise and collaboration with our partners. 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, mobility and consumer care. Dow operates 106 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $39 billion in 2020. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.

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