Emergency Services and Security (ES&S) Technician

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Our purpose

Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity.

We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company.

• Employing 36,500 individuals

• Across 109 manufacturing sites

• In over 31 countries

Our portfolio of products and solutions include:

Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants.

Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives, and lubricants, and more.

Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability.

Silicone businesses: Our silicone-based materials can withstand more demanding applications, from those operating at extreme temperatures, to those under harsh environmental conditions for long periods of time.

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for an Emergency Services and Security (ES&S) Technician in Elizabethtown, KY.

About You:

The ES&S Technician will provide hands-on security role and emergency services activities at the Elizabethtown site. This position also shares with the EH&S Specialist the responsibility for the implementation of the ES&S management system (work processes, standards, procedures) in order to meet business objectives and to maintain the license to operate.

Requires established basic ES&S skills to perform a range of routine work activities using existing standard ES&S procedures. May act as an informal resource for team members with less experience.

Your Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for covering the role of a security guard

• Monitor security cameras

• Monitor gatehouse alarms and respond appropriately

• Monitor weather and make severe weather announcements as needed

• Notify on-call contacts for incidents and alarms

• Maintain gate access system and make badges for employees

• Maintain perimeter gates and fence line

• Works with all security personnel in the preparation of secure asset plans and the development of operating discipline to execute secure asset tasks.

• Verify background check, drug screen, and other access requirements

• Receive, orient, indoctrinate, and assist visitors, delivery and pickup drivers

• Make and issue permanent badges to employees and nested contractors

• Coordinate accountability for evacuations and shelter in place events

• Communicate incident notifications as required (phone and email)

• Responsible acting as an emergency responder in the event of an incident

• Provides coverage as the incident commander across the site

• Trained and responsible for confine space rescue and hazmat responses

• Adhere to case management practices provided by site nurse

• Respond to incidents, determine responses, and notifications (fire, spill, injury, etc.)

• Investigate alarms (panic, man down, intruder, fire, smoke, O2 alarms, etc.)

• Investigate odor reports and conduct on scene root cause identification

• Use Lower explosive limit/Volatile organic compound (LEL/VOC) meter to monitor for leaks and/or exposure concerns

• Act as site rep/contact for ES&S equipment contract technicians

• Report ES&S equipment failures via work notification system

• ES&S inspections (deluge systems, fire apparatus, fire doors, fire extinguishers, monitor nozzles, portable eyebaths, PIV’s, curb valves, and medical equipment

• Operates emergency response equipment

• Enacts emergency response plans

• Executes the applicable scenarios from the emergency response plan or the alternate response plan and use operating discipline to complete the response to the emergency

Note: Position includes rotating shift with on-call responsibilities

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED equivalent is required.

• Able to work overtime as needed.

• Must have a valid US Driver’s License

• Must be able to rotate shifts between nights and day

• 18 years of age or older.

• 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.

Physical Requirements:
Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Lift, push, and pull.

• Frequent bending, reaching, and lifting

• Stand and 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 a full-face respirator, SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 or more years of experience working in a security role.

• Relevant military experience.

• Experience as an emergency responder or EMT.

• Certified in CPR, First Aid, & AED.

• Confine Space Rescue training or certification.

Your Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Be proficient in computers to perform job tasks.

• Have strong Interpersonal, Facilitative, and Organizational skills.

• Effectively interacts with multiple functions and diverse individuals to achieve goals.

• Demonstrates excellent decision-making skills and the ability to prioritize appropriately.

• Effectively manages multiple competing priorities.

• Has strong troubleshooting skills.

• Has strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Able to communicate with a very diverse population which is spread across the site.

• Strong reading comprehension and listening skills.

• Strong multi-tasking, problem solving and time management skills.

• Demonstrate leadership skills - inspire others and lead them through influence.

• Able to work with independently with minimal supervision within an empowered team environment.

• Strong work ethic.

• Safety focused.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

• Relocation is not available for this position

• Essential functions of this position may require, among other things, that the employee use particular types of equipment - such as on-site safety equipment that has specific weight limitations whereby the individual’s own weight, plus the weight of tools and other items and materials, must not exceed a certain threshold. (For example, some types of safety equipment may be rated for a maximum weight limit of 300 pounds total.) In the event a job offer for this position were (conditionally) extended, the individual will be appropriately evaluated in regard to their ability to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

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) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance leadership to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. 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, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 37,800 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $57 billion in 2022. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, 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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