Hybrid Lead Piping Designer

at Dow

• Job title: Lead Piping Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Houston, United States

About the role

• Lead Piping Designer at Dow providing specialized technical support and solutions for project teams and operations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams ensuring compliance with Dow standards and project safety initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialized technical support and solutions for project teams, operations and maintenance.
• Acts as a working team lead, providing subject matter guidance and coordinating work of others.
• Shares Accountability with the Project Piping Lead for compliance with the TES and project safety initiatives.
• Responsible for providing input to the Piping Lead on designer resource requirements including appropriate quantity and skill set of designers for the project scope.
• Accountable for the overall allocation, maintenance, and reporting of designers thorough the project.
• Maintains awareness of schedule, milestones, and challenges of the project and communicates to the Project Piping Lead.
• Coordinates training for designers.
• Assists in project reviews and team checks as required to ensure quality.
• Coordinates implementation of Piping Best practices.
• Drives the implementation of Dow MET and best practices.
• Ensures compliance with Dow standards maximizing value for the business and providing the lowest long-term cost to operate and maintain.
• Responsible for deliverable consistency across all designers in the project team.
• Mentors and Coaches new designers as required.
• Gathers lessons learned from projects and leverage these learning’s to Project. Deliver Value in design.
• Drives NO CHANGE MENTALITY.
• Responsible for managing bulks against authorization estimate quantities per progress check point agreed to with the Piping Lead and alerts Piping Engineer Lead of bulk changes.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree AND 3 years of relevant work experience OR 8 years of experience in piping engineering design.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.
• Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations: Work at heights, climbs stairs and ladders, wear all required personal protective equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes, work in an area of intense or continuous noise, work in an area with hazardous materials, perform frequent bending, reaching, and lifting, stand or walk for extended periods of time.

Benefits

• 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).
• 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) and Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location) and Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)