Pilot Plant Technologist

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About You and This Role:

Dow Performance Monomers R&D has an exciting opportunity for a Pilot Plant Technologist located in Collegeville, PA. You will support laboratory projects including working shifts on a 24/7 attended pilot plant process. You will also provide technical support to Scientists, technologists, and technicians to contribute to the delivery of innovative process technologies for Dow’s Performance Monomers product line.

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team in pilot plant (including 24 x7 operations) and laboratory settings supporting chemists and engineers in developing, screening and commercializing new products and process.
• Demonstrates proficient application of Life Critical Standards, operating plant discipline and sets role model in safety culture.
• Independently develops and implements experimental plans and acts responsible for complex laboratory/pilot plant tasks requiring complex approaches and procedures.
• Attentively and reliably monitors and manages a complex chemical process operation via computer control screens, including reactors and distillation columns, utilizing plant P&ID’s and SOP’s when required.
• Use mechanical know-how to build and maintain sections of the pilot plant, consisting of different types of reactors and/or distillation columns.
• Sampling, handling and disposing waste generated from laboratory or pilot operations.
• Uses trouble shooting skills to resolve process related deviations and problems and understands how the assigned duties relate to others in the team and how the team integrates with other related teams.
• Effectively executes shift acceptance at start of shift and shift turnover at end of shift.
• Trains other work group members and contractors on specific work processes, equipment, and machinery.
• Communicates effectively with supervisor, team members, management, and other personnel, and provides clear progress updates as needed.
• Committed to Business Principles and Policies concerning Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Sustainable Development practices.
• Complies with all regulatory and corporate requirements in areas of responsibility.
• Completes safety actions in a timely fashion following all site and laboratory expectations.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of an associate degree with a focus in science related courses Chemistry, Biology, or a similar discipline OR A minimum of high school diploma with four years or relevant experience.
• Must have the ability to process and instrumentation diagram concepts, general ability to read and follow such diagrams and interpret, and follow without deviation, process operating instructions in list, mathematical, diagram, or prose form and deal with many abstract and concrete variables.
• Microsoft application expertise, to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is required.
• Must have the ability to stand for long periods of time and lift up to 50 pounds while safely engage in physically demanding tasks.
• Must have the ability to work assigned shift hours, day or night, with effective ownership of the work duties and process areas.
• 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

• Experience in chemical process research and development or production support.
• Experience with design, building, and operation of continuous, laboratory scale, integrated chemical process pilot plants.
• Experience with handling glassware
• Experience with handling tubing, fittings, and pumps
• Experience in laboratory and pilot scale data acquisition and automation hardware and software.
• Experience in the operation of gas chromatographs (e.g., Agilent 7890).
• Experience with titrimetric methods of analysis (Karl Fischer, Acid-base Titration, etc.)
• Knowledge of engineering methods and concepts for common chemical process operations.
• Knowledge of (Meth)Acrylate monomer manufacturing technology.
  
  

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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