Reliability Engineer

**Our Purpose** Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity. We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company. - Employing 36,500 individuals - Across 109 manufacturing sites - In over 31 countries Our portfolio of products and solutions include: - Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants. - Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives and lubricants, and more. - Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability. We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this? Dow has a great and challenging opportunity for a **Senior Reliability Engineer** to join our location in **Bahia Blanca, Argentina**. You will be responsible for one of our **Packaging & Specialty Plastics** facilities. **About You** You will focus on those opportunities that over a long-term period or historically have impacted the plant’s measured asset capability and the opportunities identified as "high-risk" in risk assessments, reliability models and other evaluations. You are a team player that requires mínimal supervision. You have a strong technical knowledge of process equipment and can lead reliability efforts to increase equipment performance and decrease plant downtime **Primary Responsibilities**: - Sets and Achieves plant Product Supply Reliability (PSR) targets. - Creates Equipment Reliability Strategies based upon Top Opportunity List, Critical Equipment List, and identified plant/business needs. - Validates ERS implementation and closes gaps to improve/sustain reliability improvement. - Evaluates effectiveness of individual aspects of the PPM program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM). - Optimizes PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements. - Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decrease equipment failure losses in order to meet the site Product Supply Reliability improvement goals for the given year. - Develops and maintains, as requested, a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement. - Uses reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance. - Determine appropriate near term actions on evaluated condition based monitoring results. - Provide technical expertise to plant and/or Maintenance Personnel on troubleshooting equipment problems to assist in resolution or clear repair scope development. - Participates in plant health study and efforts to implement corrective action to maintain or improve plant health. - Develops and implements the Facility Reliability Strategy. - Serves as RCI Team Leader with proven RCI skills, coaches others in RCI facilitation and ensures strong RCI/CAPA fundamentals are practiced within the unit. - Provides front end loading support for plant Turnarounds. - Facilitates the Reliability Team and implement of the HRO principles within the unit, building strong partnerships and coaching/teaching as needed. - Assists maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using GPM work process discipline. - Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process. **Required Qualifications**: - A minimum of Bachelor's degree in Engineering - A minimum of 2 years experience in reliability, engineering, manufacturing, or related experience - Fluent English in verbal and written communications. - Fluent Spanish in verbal and written communications. **Preferred Qualifications**: - A Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering - Strong knowledge about industry equipment - Experience with SAP, APM, and Root Cause Analysis **Your skills, knowledge, and abilities include** - Positive outlook and demonstrated ability to drive change - Demonstrated facilitative leadership such as team leader for a project or initiative - Demonstrating competencies in the areas of: leadersh