Senior Site Logistics Technical Advisor

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Site Logistics Technical Advisor located in Toronto (ON, CAN).

About you and this role:
The Senior Site Logistics Technical Advisor serves in a vital role for Site Logistics, utilizing process knowledge, technical expertise, and site logistics experience to assist, teach and coach plant personnel. Focuses on troubleshooting process or equipment issues, improving process performance, and increasing site logistics reliability. Requires full proficiency in a range of technical, operational, or scientific processes or procedures through job-related training and considerable on the job experience.
In this role, you will develop full proficiency in a range of technical processes and procedures through job-related training and on-the-job experience. You will need to be able to apply knowledge of technical processes and procedures to perform a range of work assignments. You need to understand how multiple teams coordinate efforts and resources to achieve objectives and be able to explain complex technical information to members of your own team and other teams.
It is your responsibility to provide solutions to operational or analytical problems using established procedures and practices. You will serve as informal resource on analytical, scientific method, or operational processes for less experienced team members. Your performance impacts the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of your own work and your team’s work. You will receive supervision on new complex assignments.

In addition, you will be expected to assist with training, Site Incident Response Leader, and Site Logistics Scheduling responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a technical/process subject matter resource in the assigned site logistics area
• Performs or assists in process related root cause or failure analysis
• Leverages and communicates the results to operate site logistics personnel for learning purposes and ensures thorough and timely pre-investigations occur
• Works with continuous improvement and site logistics resources to identify, implement and sustain improvements relating to area of expertise
• Develops and maintain site logistics process training material content and qualification assessments
• Maintains a high involvement in the formal training process and qualification of team members on site logistics process
• Develops a strong partnership with the site logistics activity coordinator/gate keeper and provides back up to these roles, as needed
• Maintains “on call” status for plant unplanned events, emergencies and advising.
• Owns and coaches others on the effective use of logbook, focusing on quality of information entered and appropriate note type/stamp utilization
• Participates in available Technical Advising role networks to improve personal effectiveness and leveraging of best practices
• Creates, reviews, modifies and approves site logistics procedures to ensure sound operating discipline
• Partners closely with the site logistics staff to resolve problems, drive continuous improvement, and ensure the site logistics goals are achieved
• Mentors new site logistics staff as they on-board and train
• Acts as back-up to the Site Logistics Scheduler, Site Activity Coordinator, and Incident Response Leader roles.

Qualifications:

• A Short-Cycle Tertiary Degree (i.e. Associate's Degree/Technical Diploma) is required.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in an industrial facility.
• Previous Operations or Site Logistics experience (Site Logistics Tech, Operator, TA, RPE) is required.
•  Logistics technology and equipment expertise preferred.
• A minimum requirement for this Canada based position is the ability to work legally in Canada. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position.

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 and emotional 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. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• 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. 
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • 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. 

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 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. 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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