Operations Performance Engineering Manager

Operations Performance Engineering Manager

Dow has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Performance Engineering Manager located in La Porte, TX! Bayport Specialty Monomers is a standalone site that operates within the Houston Hub structure and provides critical raw materials to downstream Coatings facilities. The engineer in this position will have the opportunity to support one of several different batch reaction processes as well as logistics and utilities operations.

In this role, you will serve 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. This requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines to solve complex problems. As the OPE Manager, you will coach and influence other department engineers, own the department Process Safety, optimize batch cycle times, support other continuous improvement efforts, and have the opportunity to work with business R&D to support new product introduction to the site.

Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of chemistries, equipment, and processing technology in area of responsibility.
• Evaluates, categorizes production losses and deviation data.
• Analyze operational and logistics data (KPIs, asset utilization, trends) to validate results, diagnose gaps, and identify improvements.
• Determines and prioritizes corrective actions to close Operational Performance Gaps (utilization, yield, uptime, quality, operating discipline losses, reliability opportunities).
• Ability to understand mass and energy balance for assets and correlate losses to value.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement improvement opportunities aligned with Plant Specific Improvement Plans (PSTP), Global Technology Plans (GTP), and business objectives that also deliver value or required performance.
• Lead and support capital and non-capital projects (expense and continuous improvement) using defined project and improvement work processes.
• Provide leadership during plant maintenance, unplanned events, commissioning, start-up, and project handover to Operations.
• Partners with maintenance, OTEC, process expertise and others to identify and drive temporary and permanent equipment repairs and improvements.
• Support and drive EHS and Process Safety culture, Compliance, and necessary IM reporting.
• Champion effective maintenance practices, process safety, operating discipline, and root cause problem solving in support of cost-effective Operations.
• Provides input to shut down scope for availability and equipment reliability opportunities that cannot be addressed during normal operations.
• Works closely with the operations team leveraging their problem solving skills and technical expertise.
• Partners with experts to perform advanced troubleshooting and improve and document operating discipline.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience.
• Ability to work outside of normal business hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and participate in an on-call rotation as business needs require, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• 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

• Chemical Engineering degree discipline.
• Experience in batch operations and new product introduction.

Physical Demands

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. Must be able to use harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300lbs.

Skills

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