Lead Maintenance Coordinator

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Dow has an opportunity for a Lead Maintenance Coordinator located in Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

About You and This Role:

You will act as the focal point to ensure the overall integrity and reliability of the site's fixed equipment (piping, pressure-containing equipment, relief devices, etc.). This includes providing support to ensure compliance with Dow internal standards as well as provincial and national regulatory requirements (OPDS, Secretariat of Energy, etc.).

You will serve as the local Plant/Site Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the company's Global Mechanical Integrity Safety Standard (GMISS).

Supports the Reliability Engineer in developing effective reliability strategies for fixed equipment by providing equipment-specific knowledge during ERS strategy development.

Focuses on opportunities that, over the long term or historically, have impacted the plant's fixed asset capability, as well as opportunities identified as "high risk" through risk assessments.

This role requires broad conceptual and practical knowledge of mechanical integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a high level of knowledge of Dow's Global Mechanical Integrity Safety Standard (GMISS), as well as ASME, API, and other applicable standards and best practices for developing and designing inspection and maintenance strategies for fixed assets within the area of responsibility.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of local jurisdictional regulations, primarily OPDS and the Secretariat of Energy, as well as recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices for the inspection and testing of piping, pressure-containing equipment, and relief devices.
• Facilitates the implementation of the Fixed Asset Integrity Manual within the area of responsibility.
• Ensures the appropriate registration of all regulatory and GMISS fixed equipment.
• Ensures that inspection plans for critical fixed equipment address all credible damage mechanisms and, in consultation with process experts and corrosion engineers, helps identify specific failure modes and mechanisms for fixed equipment.
• Ensures that inspections or repairs are appropriately postponed/deferred before they become overdue.
• Ensures that all deficiencies and recommendations identified during fixed equipment inspections are properly addressed, repaired in accordance with MET, and appropriately evaluated for Fitness for Service (FFS).
• Leads and facilitates the transition of plants from condition-based inspection practices to Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) strategies.
• Communicates and reports key performance indicators for the site's Fixed Asset Integrity Program.
• Identifies and closes gaps in the facility's Fixed Asset Integrity Program through the application of the Fixed Asset Integrity Manual.
• Together with the Reliability Engineer, helps address major fixed asset reliability opportunities and reduce losses caused by fixed equipment failures in support of the established annual reliability improvement objectives.
• Provides support for plant turnaround activities related to the inspection and repair of fixed assets.
• Supports Fitness for Service (FFS) assessments related to fixed equipment inspections.
• Assists qualified inspectors in prioritizing inspection deficiencies and recommendations.
• Maintains effective communication with stakeholders across the different functions involved in fixed equipment decision-making, including Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and others.
• Actively participates in Plant Assessment Team (PAT) meetings.
• Actively participates in various site teams and activities, including collaboration with plants, the site inspector group, planning teams, and technologists involved in repairs.
• Works together with the site's Regulatory Affairs representative to support legal and regulatory submissions.
• This position has people management and talent development responsibilities.

Qualifications:

• An Engineering degree is required, preferably in Industrial, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in maintenance, inspection, reliability, fabrication, repair, or related activities involving fixed assets in industrial plants.
• Strong knowledge of the following fixed asset inspection and maintenance standards: API 570 (Piping), API 510 (Pressure Vessels), API 653 (Tanks), API 571 (Damage Mechanisms), and preferably API 580 (RBI), among others.
• A current certification in at least one of the following fixed asset inspection and maintenance standards is preferred: API 570 (Piping), API 510 (Pressure Vessels), or API 653 (Tanks).

Your Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Organized, mature, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently.

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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 career. You 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 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.
• 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 world’s 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 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. 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 www.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to inclusion, 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 Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.