In this role, you will serve as a Health & Safety Technician for Dow. You will have the opportunity to learn and deepen your skills across several different technologies and processes.

You will share in the responsibility for the implementation of the Health & Safety (H&S) management system, to meet business objectives and to maintain the license to operate. As a Health & Safety Technician, you will provide hands-on industrial hygiene (IH) and health and safety (H&S) services to a wide customer base within the plants.

The Health & Safety Technician role is ideal for an experienced safety professional that:

•  Has a history of proven results requiring minimum supervision.
•  Exhibits strong multi-tasking, problem solving and time management skills.
• Can lead by influence and collaborate with people of various backgrounds and experiences to achieve common goals.
•  Can clearly communicate verbally and in writing to internal and external partners.
•  Is skilled at building a high level of trust with stakeholders, utilizing the highest standard of ethics and integrity.
•  Demonstrates advanced skills and expertise in safety processes, procedures, and systems to perform a broad range of complex work assignments.
•  Can establish and maintain collaborative relationships with operations and maintenance personnel, including site and facility leadership.
•  Enthusiastically pursues a standard of excellence in H&S performance.
•  Is motivated to work in an environment of change and adapt positively to it.

The Details:

• As the Health & Safety Technician, you will be ready to take on the following challenges and bring value to Dow as you:
•  Coordinate, implement, and optimize detailed, task level, day to day EH&S programs utilizing the EH&S work process, standards, and procedures.
•  Ensure that all IH, Health, and Safety aspects of operating discipline are effectively applied to achieve H&S performance goals. In most cases, you may be an owner for the H&S sections of Dow operating discipline system.
• Act as the Plant resource for related H&S information on procedures, guidelines, and standards.
• Serve as plant contact for IH and Health & Safety issues.
•  Serve as an active member on facility EH&S Team.
• Coach teams and individuals on H&S related tasks and activities.
• Assist in developing and achieving area or plant H&S goals through collaboration with facility leadership.
• Ensure compliance tasks are completed.
• Perform or coordinate IH monitoring, data collection, analyzing and reporting for the Plant.
• Coordinate the audit schedule in the Safety & Health related areas.
• Participate in the Health & Safety related reviews and projects, as required.
• Participate in or lead Root Cause Analysis for H&S events, which could include gathering information, participation in incident investigations as Health & Safety Subject Matter Expert (SME) and ensuring follow up actions are completed to prevent re-occurrence.
• Perform Health & Safety Review for Management of Change (MOCs).
• Initiate and support MOC for Health & Safety standards, rules and processes in a timely manner and ensure MOC closure.
• Perform assessments of H&S standards and work processes as assigned.
• Develop and deliver training, as needed, to drive site or facility H&S knowledge.
• Act as a working team lead, providing subject matter guidance and coordinating work of others, as required.
• Demonstrate your commitment to a safe work environment by working safely and complying with environmental, health and safety standards.
• Prove your commitment to maintain ethical integrity in both successes and setbacks.

Required education, experience and abilities that are needed for this role (must haves)

•  A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED.
• 3 or more years of relevant experience in either an EH&S role or industrial manufacturing environment.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
•  Proficiency in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Excel, with ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Must be willing to work weekends, and holidays, when required.
• Must be willing to work overtime when required.

Preferred Skills

• An expanded list of qualifications that are “nice to have”, but not essential
•  3 or more years of experience of EH&S and manufacturing or operations related experience.
•  Candidate with defined examples of ownership and engagement in facility EH&S.