Maintenance Group Leader

Maintenance Group Leader

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we're passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet. Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We're a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you're looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you're in the right place.

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.

Dow has an opportunity for a Maintenance Group Leader at our Hayward, CA site!

About you and this role :

Supervises daily activities of administrative, technical and operational employees. Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion. Shares responsibility and accountability for the plant assets, personnel and achievement of the plant related business goals. As a leader, fosters a work environment with a high level of integrity and strong customer and safety focus that embraces inclusion and diversity, innovation and sustainability, continuous improvement and empowerment. Serves as Reliability steward to ensure sustained reliability improvement through utilization of proven reliability practices and techniques. 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.

Responsibilities :

• Fosters EH&S engagement, particularly in the field and in the areas of personal safety and compliance.
• A clear focus will exist on creating a Highly Reliable Organizational culture and the elimination of unplanned events by implementing reliability and maintenance services and solutions.
• Completes the requirements of the Performance Management Process for Maintenance direct reports which is leveraged to support meaningful opportunities for leader / employee engagement. This includes coaching and career development.
• Implements and provides on-going support of the Maintenance Procedure Use Policy at the facility.
• 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.
• Identifies and resolves Top Reliability Opportunities and decrease equipment failure losses and leverages those solutions both into and out of the facility. Ensures consistency in the Reliability Opportunity List process.
• Develops and implements the Facility Reliability Strategy and provides input into the Business Reliability Strategy.
• Manages site annual Turnarounds (pit-stops).
• Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Physical Demands :

Willing and able to meet physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations :

Your Skills :

Additional Notes :

This position does not offer relocation assistance.

For positions based in California, Dow is required by law to include the pay scale that is reasonably expected to represent the pay range for the position. This pay range is specific to the State of California and accounts for both new and experienced employees with consideration to factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, and sustained job performance (or similar jobs). A reasonable pay range for this position is : $98,400 $175,200.

This job is eligible for an additional 18% geographic differential associated with the California location and this position.

Benefits What Dow offers you

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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.

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