Maintenance Capability Director

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.

About you and this role

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Capability Director . This role has global responsibility for work processes and teams that enable top quartile performance. In this role, you will own maintenance work processes, productivity initiatives, quality assurance systems, MRO effectiveness, and enabling technologies. You will define and deploy strategies that improve maintenance execution, strengthen equipment and facility reliability, and create consistency across regions while enabling sites and businesses to meet their objectives.

This is an opportunity for an experienced maintenance, reliability, manufacturing, or functional leader to shape enterprise maintenance capability. A successful candidate will demonstrate strong people and organizational leadership, the ability to translate corporate strategy into practical direction, and the skill to align diverse Regional, Site, Business, Purchasing, and Technology stakeholders around common standards, priorities, and outcomes.

This position can be located at most Dow locations in North America, Latin America, or Europe.

Responsibilities

- A senior leader in the OTEC Maintenance Tech Center (MTC) serves on the MTC Leadership Team to lead cross OTEC initiatives and teams aligned to the goals of the Regions, Sites, and Businesses we serve .

- Ensure external and internal benchmarking is continuous and translate benchmark insights into prioritized improvement plans.

- Define and implement strategy for maintenance productivity to drive consistency between regions and leverage best practices.

- Owner for Global Maintenance work processes.  Develop work processes and lead SME teams to support Regions, Sites, and Businesses on efficiency and effectiveness of work processes.

- Own and lead the global Maintenance Quality team, setting strategy, priorities, and performance expectations for quality assurance work processes and provide expertise for shop and field work.

- Partner with Purchasing and Sites to coordinate shop inspection for major capital projects and lead new supplier qualifications.

- Own and lead digital strategy for tool and productivity use in Maintenance.  (Partner with OTEC Digital Operations).

- Lead MRO work processes and establish best practices and tools to enable global optimization supporting Site and Business objectives.

Required Qualifications

- A minimum of a bachelor's degree or military degree experience at or above a U.S. E5 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking.

- A minimum of 8 years of relevant working experience.

- For U.S. Applicants: A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Qualifications

- Previous people leadership experience.

- Deep knowledge of maintenance work management, planning and scheduling, execution productivity, quality assurance, MRO, inventory optimization, analytics, or maintenance technology.

- Experience establishing enterprise standards and deploying work processes across multiple regions or businesses.

- Experience with external benchmarking and translating benchmark insights into prioritized improvement plans.

- Strong financial and working-capital acumen related to maintenance and MRO decisions.

- Demonstrated commitment to safety, operational excellence, reliability, quality, and continuous improvement.

Skills

- People Leadership: Builds, develops, and supports teams in maintenance capability expertise.

- Financial Acumen:  Defines maintenance efficiency performance metrics for first quartile external benchmarking and ensures that company performance in is line with benchmarking. Establishes MRO process that enables Regional MRO success and maintains consistency and best practices globally.

- Strategic Thinking: Evaluates long-term business, reliability, and operational impacts to develop MRO strategies that meet company financial and PSR goals.

- Communication: Communicates maintenance work process and MRO objectives, risks, decisions, and performance outcomes clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all organizational levels.

- Governance & Decision Management: Establishes and drives adherence to maintenance best practices, quality assurance, and MRO consistent global execution.

- Business Integration: Connects MRO strategies with reliability, maintenance, procurement, and business priorities to optimize spare parts inventory and PSR performance.

- Influential Leadership: Ability to influence and align cross-functional teams, drive a culture of reliability excellence, and secure organizational commitment to strategic maintenance and asset management initiatives.

Additional Notes

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

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 .

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