Reliability Engineer

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Dow Thailand Group has vacancy Reliability engineer position, located at Asia Industrial Estate, Rayong. You will facilitate development of the business/facility maintenance strategy and solves reliability and availability losses through application of reliability technology and tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy. Focuses 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. Requires expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and broadens capabilities. 

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 Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM) program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and PPM. 
• Optimizes PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements. 
• Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decreases equipment failure
• 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. 
• 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 Root Cause investigation (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 annual maintenance budget setting process. 
• Assists maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using Global Project methodology (GPM) work process discipline. 
• Applies long term cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles in conjunction with the discipline teams and technical resource networks to design reliability into our purchasing requirements.
• Provide equipment reliability and performance data to the technical resource networks for evaluation of equipment performance, vendor performance, modifications to Most Effective Technology (MET) level 1.
• Uses long term cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles to optimize spare parts stockage levels in conjunction with the MRO function, Discipline Activity Specialists.

• Develop and implement operating discipline that will improve reliability.

Qualification: 

• Bachelor's degree plus reliability, engineering, mechanical or related experience required. 
• Min. 5 years of experience in Petrochemical industry.
• Knowledgeable to relevant work processes (Sub Processes under Make Product Work Process such as Repair and Maintain, Continuous Improvement and Reliability Excellence, Global Turnaround Work Process, etc.) 
• Proficient in spoken and written English, with a TOEIC score of 600 or higher 
• Proficient in computer skills, including MS Office applications
• Strong communication skills and a team player
• In-depth problem-solving ability, interpersonal skills
• Ambitious, self-motivated, well-organized and enthusiastic 

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)

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About Dow

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