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About You and this Role
Dow has an exciting opportunity for an OTEC Turnaround Director. This role has global responsibility for the safe & efficient execution of MEGA turnarounds while also leading the implementation of turnaround best practices across all businesses and geographies. This is a growth opportunity for an experienced plant or department leader to continue the redesign and implementation of turnaround execution and best practices for Dow. A successful candidate will need to demonstrate and strengthen skills in people leadership with direct reports located globally, in partnership with peers in OTEC, Envelopes, Sites, EHS, and Procurement, in communicating and presenting to company leadership, and in financial acumen. The preferred location for this position is the U.S. Gulf Coast. Other locations where there is Mega turnaround presence may be considered (EMEAI and Canada and Latin America).
In this role, the OTEC Turnaround Director will lead and integrate turnaround best practices and OTEC turnaround resources globally to maximize EBIT by executing first quartile turnarounds in safety, total cost, duration, and craftsmanship. The OTEC Turnaround Director will own global turnaround best practices and implementation of turnaround decision rights, ensuring alignment between OTEC, Envelopes, Sites, EHS, and Procurement. Utilizing the Platinum TA Work Process, you will drive effective planning, governance, FEL, and execution of turnarounds with a core team embedded in Mega turnarounds.
As the primary integrator across OTEC, Envelopes, Sites, EHS, and Procurement, you will ensure timely decisions, resource alignment, funding optimization, and successful turnaround execution. You will partner closely with Manufacturing Asset Strategy Directors and Site leadership to improve cycle-to-cycle reliability performance, optimize turnaround outcomes, and deploy technologies and practices that enhance asset availability and business profitability.
Responsibilities
Turnaround Leadership & Execution
- Lead OTEC turnaround teams to implement turnaround best practices effectively and deliver best-in-class safety, planning, scheduling, cost management, coordination, and execution across Mega turnarounds.
- Apply the Platinum TA Work Process to ensure timely involvement of all critical stakeholders and functions throughout turnaround planning and execution.
- Develop and maintain turnaround schedules, budgets, resource plans, and critical path activities.
- Define turnaround best practices including enforce governance and administrative controls to ensure best practices are implemented, and leverage the best practices to non-mega turnarounds.
- Integrate OTEC, Operations, Maintenance, Projects, and Contractors to optimize turnaround duration, cost, and business impact.
- Manage execution-phase issues and risks to ensure turnaround objectives are achieved safely, on schedule, and within budget.
- Translate value opportunities into risk, reliability, and best practices.
- Prepare and communicate turnaround closure reports and ensure lessons learned, plans, and data are archived for future use.
Governance, Funding & Business Integration
- Coordinate site integration and OTEC resource per Mega turnaround.
- Lead OTEC governance and decision-making processes for turnarounds.
- Serve as the primary integrator across OTEC, Envelopes, Sites, and Procurement for turnarounds and funding decisions.
- Partner with Manufacturing Asset Strategy Directors & Envelope Reliability & Turnaround Directors to ensure business priorities are reflected in turnaround strategies and executions.
- Facilitate the rollup of Corporate Turnaround budgets for Dow and Diamond
Continuous Improvement & Leadership
- Partner with OTEC and other stakeholders to improve turnaround execution methodologies, organizational effectiveness, and deployment of new technologies.
- Provide leadership in regional, site, and global networks to advance turnaround best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, reliability, cost performance, and execution effectiveness.
- Foster collaboration and alignment across Envelopes and Sites to ensure consistent execution of turnaround best practices.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree (i.e. engineering is preferred)
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
- Prior department or plant leadership experience in manufacturing, envelopes, or multi-site organizations.
- Must be willing and able to travel a minimum of 25% annually (both domestically & internationally).
- A minimum requirement for this position is the ability to work legally in the country for which you are applying. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience in turnaround management, reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, asset management, or related disciplines.
- Deep understanding of turnaround planning, execution, governance, and the Platinum TA Work Process.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing decisions without direct authority in complex organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across multiple businesses and competing priorities.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Skills
- People Leadership: Builds, develops, and supports teams in turnaround planning, execution and governance.
- Financial Acumen: Applies funding strategies, capital economics, lifecycle costing, and value-of-risk analysis to optimize turnaround investments and maximize business value.
- Stakeholder Management: Builds alignment and facilitates decision-making across OTEC, Envelopes, Sites, Procurement, and Business leadership throughout the turnaround lifecycle.
- Strategic Thinking: Evaluates long-term business, reliability, and operational impacts to develop turnaround strategies that improve asset performance and profitability.
- Communication: Communicates turnaround objectives, risks, decisions, and performance outcomes clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Governance & Decision Management: Establishes and drives adherence to turnaround governance processes, decision rights, and accountability frameworks to ensure consistent global execution.
- Business Integration: Connects turnaround strategies with manufacturing, reliability, maintenance, procurement, and business priorities to optimize turnaround outcomes and asset availability.
Additional Notes
- This position does not offer relocation assistance.
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.
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