Senior Operations Performance Engineer

Dow•La Porte, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Operations Performance Engineer at our Bayport Operations site 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. This role requires broadened conceptual and working knowledge and experience in job discipline to perform a range of work assignments. 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.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
A minimum of 4 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.

Nice To Haves

Chemical Engineering degree discipline.
Troubleshooting – Ability to identify and resolve plant and pipeline issues.
Project Management – Experience with scoping and leading maintenance, shutdowns, and start-ups.
Leadership & Communication –Ability to guide teams, collaborate across functions, and influence decisions.
Collaboration - Works effectively across teams and functions to foster strong relationships, align priorities, and achieve common goals through open communication, mutual respect, and teamwork.
Plant Operations - Knowledge of plant operations, manufacturing processes, and operational workflows to support safe, efficient, and reliable production.

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.

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)