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About This Role
Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Multicraft Outside Mechanic / Pipefitter in Seadrift, Texas.
As a Multicraft Outside Mechanic / Pipefitter you will provide maintenance craft-specific support to plants. You will maintain and repair all types of equipment within craft knowledge and expertise. You will require broadened technical skills in analytical/scientific methods or operational processes to perform a defined array of activities. You may act as an informal resource for team members with less experience.
Responsibilities
- Diagnoses and corrects equipment problems.
- Calibrates and aligns equipment.
- Completes preventative maintenance activities.
- Checks sizing of components and parts.
- Specifies, requisitions, and installs parts and equipment.
- Coordinates maintenance spare parts.
- Assemble or secure pipes, tubes, fittings, or related equipment, according to specifications using a variety of hand and power tools (e.g., saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders).
- Prepare various joints for assembly (e.g., bolted, welded, etc.) to meet specific system requirements.
- Lay out full-scale drawings of pipe systems, supports, and related equipment, following blueprints, plans, and drawings
- Work from and prepare fabrication sketches for other team members to work from.
- Able to learn the techniques required to assemble high-pressure fittings (e.g. Grayloc, Wave ring, Lens Ring and Autoclave tubing, etc.)
- Repairs, maintains, and installs equipment and machinery which is used in the process.
- Troubleshoots and repairs malfunctions and documents failure analysis.
- Collects equipment operation and history data to facilitate reliability improvements.
- Works within established Maintenance Work Processes and helps resolve issues that surface as a result of planning and scheduling work.
- and repairing a variety of processes and rotating equipment used in industrial processing. The mechanical equipment may include ANSI pumps, various types of compressors, blowers, fans, gearboxes, mixers, extruders, and agitators.
- This job requires hands-on fieldwork to determine the cause of equipment failure, locate spare parts, and install spare parts using repair procedures and machinist techniques for alignment.
- Utilize functional, and technical knowledge, company standards, and educational background or experience to analyze and solve problems.
- Develop and review routine maintenance procedures.
- Act as lead craftsman and or quality focal point and direct outside contractors as needed on routine and non-routine repair activities.
- Work Nights and weekends as business needs dictate.
Required Qualifications
- Must have a High School diploma or GED and one of the following:
- Associate degree or higher in a mechanical type craft or NCCER certified as a Millwright (NCCER Certification obtained through an Instructor Led Training Program is a preference). In lieu of a degree Dow will consider those with 3 or more years of relevant military experience.
- 3 or more years of experience in an industrial environment as a Millwright/Mechanic or Pipe Fitter.
- Strong mechanical skills and mechanical aptitude.
- Previous experience sketching isometric drawings. (This experience could be from school, training, or on-the-job experience.)
- Able to learn company piping standards.
- Able to work overtime, including nights, weekends, and holidays with occasional overtime as dictated by business needs. Participates in an after hour call rotation for night and weekend coverage.
- Current, valid US driver's license.
- You must possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. For information on TWIC eligibility requirements, please see: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic If unable to access link, copy and paste in your browser.)
- 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
- Familiarity with Optic and/or Laser alignment techniques.
- Familiarity with Steam and Gas Turbines.
- Familiarity with Compressor both reciprocating and centrifugal.
Physical Demands
- Willing and able to meet physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations
- Lift, push, and pull up to 55 lbs.
- Frequent bending, reaching, and lifting
- Stand 50% of the time.
- Walk for extended periods of time
- Work at heights, climb stairs and ladders.
- Work in tight and closed in spaces.
- Wear all required personal protective equipment, including but not limited to respirator.
- Work in an area of intense or continuous noise.
- Work in an area with hazardous materials.
- Able to lift hoses, rigging equipment, and power tools and similar equipment as a normal part of the job.
- Able to climb stairs, ladders, negotiate uneven surfaces and work at heights.
- Able to traverse gangways and scaffolding at varying heights.
- This role does involve elevated work greater than or equal to four feet above the ground
Skills
- Mechanical Maintenance: Ability to maintain, repair, and install rotating and static equipment including pumps, compressors, blowers, gearboxes, and piping systems to ensure reliable plant operations.
- Troubleshooting: Skill in diagnosing equipment failures using hands-on field analysis, failure data, and repair procedures to restore performance and prevent recurrence.
- Pipefitting & Fabrication: Ability to assemble, install, and repair piping systems, including preparing joints, interpreting isometric drawings, and fabricating components to meet system specifications.
- Preventive Maintenance: Capability to execute and support maintenance work processes, including inspections, calibrations, and routine servicing to improve equipment reliability and performance.
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment, provide guidance to less experienced team members, and coordinate with contractors to complete routine and non-routine maintenance activities safely and efficiently.
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, 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).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- 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)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
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 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. 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 visitingwww.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
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