Health and Safety (H&S) Technician

Dow•Beaumont, TX

14d•Onsite

About The Position

Dow is hiring a Senior Health & Safety Technician for its East Texas Hub (ETH) Safety Team, based in Beaumont, Texas. The East Texas Hub includes Sabine River Operations in Orange, Texas, and the Beaumont site. The role provides hands-on industrial hygiene and health and safety services to plant customers and shares responsibility for implementing the H&S management system to meet business objectives and maintain the license to operate. The position offers opportunities to learn across multiple technologies and processes. The technician coordinates and optimizes day-to-day environmental, health and safety programs; supports operating discipline and compliance; serves as a plant resource and contact for H&S and industrial hygiene matters; and works with facility teams and leadership to achieve safety goals. The role also includes monitoring and reporting, audits, incident analysis, management-of-change reviews, assessments, training, and support for unplanned events, outages, and turnarounds. The technician may act as a working team lead and provide subject matter guidance to others. The position is based in Beaumont, Texas, and does not offer relocation assistance. The employee must be willing to work weekends, overtime, and holidays when required, and must possess or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. The position requires the ability to work legally in the United States; visa sponsorship or support is not available.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, and at least one of the following: an associate degree or higher in a relevant field; three or more years of relevant military experience; three or more years of EH&S experience; or three or more years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
Willingness to work weekends, overtime, and holidays when required.
Possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain one.
Ability to work legally in the United States; visa sponsorship or support is not available.
Communication skills, including conveying information verbally and in writing, explaining safety procedures, reporting incidents, and delivering training.
Problem-solving skills, including identifying safety issues, analyzing root causes, recommending corrective actions, and ensuring compliance.
Collaboration skills for working with operations, maintenance, leadership, and other teams toward H&S goals.
Risk awareness, including recognizing hazards, assessing risks, understanding regulatory requirements, and proactively preventing incidents.
Knowledge of health and safety principles, standards, procedures, industrial hygiene monitoring, compliance audits, and EH&S programs.
Conflict-resolution skills for addressing disagreements related to safety practices or compliance.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, including wearing required safety equipment and PPE, using respirators, climbing stairs and ladders, working at heights, and standing or walking for extended periods.
Ability to use PPE, including harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300 pounds.

Responsibilities

Coordinate, implement, and optimize detailed, task-level, day-to-day EH&S programs using EH&S work processes, standards, and procedures.
Ensure industrial hygiene, health, and safety aspects of operating discipline are effectively applied to achieve H&S performance goals; in most cases, own the H&S sections of Dow’s operating discipline system.
Act as the plant resource for H&S information on procedures, guidelines, and standards.
Serve as the plant contact for industrial hygiene and H&S issues.
Serve as an active member of the facility EH&S Team.
Coach teams and individuals on H&S-related tasks and activities.
Collaborate with facility leadership to develop and achieve area or plant H&S goals.
Ensure compliance tasks are completed.
Perform or coordinate plant industrial hygiene monitoring, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Coordinate the audit schedule in safety- and health-related areas.
Participate in H&S reviews and projects as required.
Participate in or lead root cause analysis for H&S events, including information gathering, incident investigations as an H&S subject matter expert, and follow-up actions to prevent recurrence.
Perform H&S reviews for Management of Change (MOCs).
Initiate and support MOCs for H&S standards, rules, and processes in a timely manner and ensure closure.
Perform assessments of H&S standards and work processes as assigned.
Develop and deliver training as needed to strengthen site or facility H&S knowledge.
Act as a working team lead, providing subject matter guidance and coordinating others’ work as required.
Work safely and comply with environmental, health, and safety standards.
Maintain ethical integrity in successes and setbacks.
Provide H&S support for unplanned events, outages, and turnarounds.

Benefits

Equitable, market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity, with locally relevant incentives.
Programs supporting physical, mental, financial, and social well-being.
Competitive retirement program, which may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources.
Employee stock purchase programs, subject to location availability.
Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program in the United States.
Medical and life insurance packages with coverage options; travel insurance is available in certain countries or locations.
Training, mentoring, work experience, community involvement, and team-building opportunities.
Role-based flexibility intended to support personal productivity and personal needs.
Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
Paid time off for new parents, including adoptive and foster parents.
Paid time off to care for sick or injured family members.
Paid time off for volunteering and Employee Resource Group participation.
Wellbeing Portal for Dow employees.
On-site fitness facilities, subject to location availability.
Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships, and more.
Some locations may offer transportation allowances, meal subsidies or vouchers, and carbon-neutral transportation incentives.