Maintenance Capability Director

Dow

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Capability Director. This role has global responsibility for work processes and teams that enable top quartile performance. In this role, you will own maintenance work processes, productivity initiatives, quality assurance systems, MRO effectiveness, and enabling technologies. You will define and deploy strategies that improve maintenance execution, strengthen equipment and facility reliability, and create consistency across regions while enabling sites and businesses to meet their objectives. This is an opportunity for an experienced maintenance, reliability, manufacturing, or functional leader to shape enterprise maintenance capability. A successful candidate will demonstrate strong people and organizational leadership, the ability to translate corporate strategy into practical direction, and the skill to align diverse Regional, Site, Business, Purchasing, and Technology stakeholders around common standards, priorities, and outcomes. This position can be located at most Dow locations in North America, Latin America, or Europe.

Requirements

A minimum of a bachelor's degree or military degree experience at or above a U.S. E5 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking.
A minimum of 8 years of relevant working experience.
For U.S. Applicants: 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.

Nice To Haves

Previous people leadership experience.
Deep knowledge of maintenance work management, planning and scheduling, execution productivity, quality assurance, MRO, inventory optimization, analytics, or maintenance technology.
Experience establishing enterprise standards and deploying work processes across multiple regions or businesses.
Experience with external benchmarking and translating benchmark insights into prioritized improvement plans.
Strong financial and working-capital acumen related to maintenance and MRO decisions.
Demonstrated commitment to safety, operational excellence, reliability, quality, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Serves on the MTC Leadership Team to lead cross OTEC initiatives and teams aligned to the goals of the Regions, Sites, and Businesses we serve.
Ensure external and internal benchmarking is continuous and translate benchmark insights into prioritized improvement plans.
Define and implement strategy for maintenance productivity to drive consistency between regions and leverage best practices.
Owner for Global Maintenance work processes. Develop work processes and lead SME teams to support Regions, Sites, and Businesses on efficiency and effectiveness of work processes.
Own and lead the global Maintenance Quality team, setting strategy, priorities, and performance expectations for quality assurance work processes and provide expertise for shop and field work.
Partner with Purchasing and Sites to coordinate shop inspection for major capital projects and lead new supplier qualifications.
Own and lead digital strategy for tool and productivity use in Maintenance. (Partner with OTEC Digital Operations).
Lead MRO work processes and establish best practices and tools to enable global optimization supporting Site and Business objectives.

Benefits

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.
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)