Reliability Engineer

DOW CHEMICAL THAILAND LTD. (Rayong)

Rayong, Thailand

Dow is a global leader in material sciences with an ambition to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow’s portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automotive and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. Dow Thailand Group Dow first came to Thailand in 1967 and set up its first manufacturing facility in Thailand in Phra Pradaeng, Samutprakarn in 1978. In 1987, Dow signed joint venture agreement with SCG, and set up SCG-DOW Group. The company expanded its manufacturing base to Rayong province at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in 1993 and Asia Industrial Estate in 2011. Dow Thailand is the largest manufacturing hub of Dow in the Asia Pacific with 13 world-class manufacturing facilities and distributes over 1,000 product families to serve various industries in Thailand. In 2019, Dow Thailand delivered net sales approximately 105,367 million baht and total production is 2,136,000 tons.

About this position

Dow Thailand Group has vacancy Reliability engineer position, located at Rayong. You will facilitate development of the business/facility maintenance strategy and solves reliability and availability losses through application of reliability technology and tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy. Focuses on those opportunities that over a long-term period or historically have impacted the plant’s measured asset capability and the opportunities identified as 'high-risk' in risk assessments, reliability models and other evaluations. Requires expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and broadens capabilities.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
• Sets and Achieves plant Product Supply Reliability (PSR) targets.
• Creates Equipment Reliability Strategies based upon Top Opportunity List, Critical Equipment List, and identified plant/business needs.
• Validates ERS implementation and closes gaps to improve/sustain reliability improvement.
• Evaluates effectiveness of individual aspects of the Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM) program by showing quantitatively the impact of failures and PPM.
• Optimizes PPM activities, on an on-going basis, to support overall productivity improvements.
• Identifies and resolve Top Reliability Opportunities and decreases equipment failure.
• Develops and maintains, as requested, a model that identifies the unit operations, equipment, process, etc. that identifies the value of opportunities for improvement.
• Uses reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, RCI, FMEA) to identify and eliminate negative reliability trends and equipment performance.
• Participates in plant health study and efforts to implement corrective action to maintain or improve plant health.
• Develops and implements the Facility Reliability Strategy.
• Serves as Root Cause investigation (RCI) Team Leader with proven RCI skills, coaches others in RCI facilitation and ensures strong RCI/CAPA fundamentals are practiced within the unit.
• Provides front end loading support for plant Turnarounds.
• Facilitates the annual maintenance budget setting process.
• Assists maintenance representatives and project teams to design reliability, availability, and maintainability into new plants and equipment systems using Global Project methodology (GPM) work process discipline.
• Applies long term cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles in conjunction with the discipline teams and technical resource networks to design reliability into our purchasing requirements.
• Provide equipment reliability and performance data to the technical resource networks for evaluation of equipment performance, vendor performance, modifications to Most Effective Technology (MET) level 1.
• Uses long term cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles to optimize spare parts stockage levels in conjunction with the MRO function, Discipline Activity Specialists.
• Develop and implement operating discipline that will improve reliability.

Requirements

Qualification: