Production Coordinator & Unit Leader

At Dow we believe in putting people first and were passionate about delivering integrity respect and safety to our customers our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. Were a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration.If youre looking for a challenge and meaningful role youre in the right place.

About you and 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 in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines to solve complex problems.

Responsibilities as Production Coordinator:

• Extracts production schedule from SAP. Obtains information from the maintenance schedule equipment/plant availability resource availability raw material location and finished product storage location.
• Evaluates capability to commit to schedule. Develops a plan to resolve exceptions that are covered by Business rules.
• Understands the plan to resolve the exception and the impact on the production schedule and provides appropriate feedback to planning.
• Performs SAP transactions to create and release production order(s) if needed.
• Communicates production instructions to operations personnel. Utilizes knowledge of plant capability capacity and inventory to ensure daily production targets are met.
• Serves as on call contact for issues regarding production scheduling.
• Ensures site integration issues are resolved.
• Ensures OXO plant integration issues are resolved.

Responsibilities as Unit Leader:

• 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.
• 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.
• Works closely with the operations team to solve issues as they arise.
• Collaborates seamlessly with five different OXO units working alongside five RPEs (Run Plant Engineers) and five TAs (Technical Advisors) to ensure OXO operates efficiently as a whole.
• Keeps abreast of emerging challenges within OXO assisting the team in prioritizing production needs based on rates and maintenance resources.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelors degree.
• A minimum of 6 years of engineering manufacturing or related experience.
• 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:

• A degree in engineering.

Able to meet the following physical demands of the job with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Work at heights climbs stairs and ladders.
• Wear all required personal protective equipment such as earplugs goggles and steel-toed shoes.
• Work in an area of intense or continuous noise.
• Work in an area with hazardous materials.
• Stand or walk for extended periods of time.
• 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.

Your Skills:

• Communication: Professional communication encompasses written oral visual and digital communication within a workplace context.
• Operations: Operations are the business activities that a firm engages in to convert materials into finished products or services sell them to customers and earn a profit.
• Production Engineering: Production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical chemical electrical and industrial engineering. Manufacturing engineering requires the ability to plan the practices of manufacturing; to research and to develop tools processes machines and equipment; and to integrate the facilities and systems for producing quality products with the optimum expenditure of capital.
• Financial Acumen: Financial Acumen is a critical skill that refers to the ability to comprehend and apply financial knowledge and insights to make informed the understanding of the financial effects and relationships of various aspects of your business.
• Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is an organizations process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.
• Collaborative Spirit: Collaborative Spirit refers to the motivation and collaborative behavior individuals show in a team to work towards a common feeling of commitment among the team members as they work together to achieve a target that may not be possible without a team.
• Business Management: Business Management is the practice of overseeing and coordinating various activities within an organization to achieve goals efficiently including planning organizing leading and controlling resources and processes.
• High Reliability: Reliability refers to someone or something who/that can be trusted or believed and dependable.

Note: This position does not offer relocation assistance.

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 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 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 Groups (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.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the worlds 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 35900 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 .

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 Dows equal opportunities is available on .