Global Turnaround Scheduler SME

The Dow Chemical Company; Freeport (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Dow Chemical Company is seeking a Global Turnaround Scheduler SME in the Gulf Coast region, based around Freeport (TX, USA). The role provides global scheduling expertise for Front-End Loading and execution with a $900MM annual spend.

The position partners with site turnaround teams and leadership to ensure adherence to global processes, readiness reviews, and performance oversight. A bachelor's degree plus 5 years in turnaround is preferred, with up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience or 10 years in turnaround execution and controls.
• Deep knowledge of Primavera, Scheduling software and turnaround work processes.
• Experience as master scheduler in a major turnaround preferred.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
• U.S. work authorization; no visa sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern Dow's global turnaround scheduling operating discipline.
• Provide scheduling leadership to turnaround teams for major events ($30MM+).
• Assess turnaround compliance, readiness, and health across FEL and execution.
• Lead readiness reviews, challenge sessions, and gate reviews.
• Develop recommendations to address readiness deficiencies and risk.
• Own the global scheduler qualification curriculum and training.
• Lead global scheduler networks and share best practices.
• Monitor performance and enable decisions supporting safety, cost, and schedule.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled solutions to advance scheduling.

Skills

Front-End Loading

Risk Management

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Facilitation

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience

Primavera

Scheduling software

Tools

Primavera

Scheduling software

Job description

Primary Location:Freeport (TX, USA),Texas,United States of America

Additional Locations: Deer Park (TX, USA) Oyster Creek (TX, USA) Hahnville (LA, USA) + More

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration.If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.

About You and this Role

Dow has an opening for a Global Turnaround Scheduler SME located in the Gulf Coast Region. This role acts as a technical resource for Scheduling within the Platinum work process. Will be responsible for providing global scheduling expertise, execution support and work process governance across Dow ($900MM annual spend). This role partners closely with OTEC, site turnaround teams, business leadership, and functional stakeholders to ensure strict adherence to global turnaround work processes, scheduling operating discipline/s, and Platinum standards throughout Front-End Loading (FEL) and execution.

The primary objective is to improve turnaround readiness, minimize risk, enhance consistency, and drive successful turnaround outcomes through direct engagement, coaching, assurance activities, and performance oversight to the Scheduling discipline. This role serves as a key resource to help TA teams achieve excellence in scheduling competitiveness and predictability for Dow turnarounds.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern Dow's global turnaround scheduling operating discipline, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, work processes, and governance requirements.
• Provide scheduling leadership and support to turnaround teams, particularly for major turnaround events ($30MM+), to improve readiness and execution performance.
• Assess turnaround compliance, readiness, and health throughout FEL and execution phases, identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead and participate in readiness reviews, challenge sessions, and gate reviews to ensure critical deliverables and milestones are achieved before execution.
• Develop recommendations and drive actions to address readiness deficiencies, reduce risk, and improve turnaround outcomes.
• Own the global turnaround scheduler qualification curriculum, supporting training, coaching, mentoring, and scheduler development activities.
• Lead global scheduler networks, promote best practices, and serve as a trusted advisor to turnaround teams throughout the turnaround lifecycle.
• Support turnaround execution by monitoring performance, applying PERA-based risk management principles, resolving critical issues, and enabling decisions that support safety, schedule, cost, quality, and reliability objectives.
• Capture and incorporate lessons learned while driving continuous improvement, standardization, and operational discipline across Dow turnaround processes and governance practices.
• Lead the evaluation of emerging technologies, AI-enabled solutions, benchmarking efforts, and industry best practices to advance turnaround scheduling capability and performance across Dow.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience OR (in lieu of a degree) 10 years experience in turnaround execution and project controls will be considered.
• Deep knowledge of Primavera, Scheduling software and turnaround work processes.
• Previous experience serving as a master scheduler in a major turnaround is preferred
• Must be willing and able to travel both domestically and internationally up to 25% annually.
• 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.

Skills

• Front-End Loading (FEL): Applies FEL methodologies to support effective turnaround planning, readiness, and execution preparation.
• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to improve turnaround predictability, safety, and overall performance.
• Leadership: Provides direction, coaching, and support to schedulers and turnaround teams while promoting operating discipline and best practices.
• Communication: Communicates scheduling strategies, risks, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization.
• Stakeholder Management: Builds relationships and aligns diverse stakeholders to support turnaround objectives and drive effective decision-making.
• Facilitation: Leads reviews, discussions, and challenge sessions that encourage collaboration, resolve issues, and advance turnaround readiness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Works effectively across sites, businesses, and functions to achieve consistent turnaround outcomes in a global environment.

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 30countries and employ approximately36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately$43 billionin 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 visiting www.dow.com opens in a new tab .

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 opens in a new tab .

Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration.If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.

About You and this Role

Dow has an opening for a Global Turnaround Scheduler SME located in the Gulf Coast Region. This role acts as a technical resource for Scheduling within the Platinum work process. Will be responsible for providing global scheduling expertise, execution support and work process governance across Dow ($900MM annual spend). This role partners closely with OTEC, site turnaround teams, business leadership, and functional stakeholders to ensure strict adherence to global turnaround work processes, scheduling operating discipline/s, and Platinum standards throughout Front-End Loading (FEL) and execution.

The primary objective is to improve turnaround readiness, minimize risk, enhance consistency, and drive successful turnaround outcomes through direct engagement, coaching, assurance activities, and performance oversight to the Scheduling discipline. This role serves as a key resource to help TA teams achieve excellence in scheduling competitiveness and predictability for Dow turnarounds.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern Dow's global turnaround scheduling operating discipline, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, work processes, and governance requirements.
• Provide scheduling leadership and support to turnaround teams, particularly for major turnaround events ($30MM+), to improve readiness and execution performance.
• Assess turnaround compliance, readiness, and health throughout FEL and execution phases, identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead and participate in readiness reviews, challenge sessions, and gate reviews to ensure critical deliverables and milestones are achieved before execution.
• Develop recommendations and drive actions to address readiness deficiencies, reduce risk, and improve turnaround outcomes.
• Own the global turnaround scheduler qualification curriculum, supporting training, coaching, mentoring, and scheduler development activities.
• Lead global scheduler networks, promote best practices, and serve as a trusted advisor to turnaround teams throughout the turnaround lifecycle.
• Support turnaround execution by monitoring performance, applying PERA-based risk management principles, resolving critical issues, and enabling decisions that support safety, schedule, cost, quality, and reliability objectives.
• Capture and incorporate lessons learned while driving continuous improvement, standardization, and operational discipline across Dow turnaround processes and governance practices.
• Lead the evaluation of emerging technologies, AI-enabled solutions, benchmarking efforts, and industry best practices to advance turnaround scheduling capability and performance across Dow.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience OR (in lieu of a degree) 10 years experience in turnaround execution and project controls will be considered.
• Deep knowledge of Primavera, Scheduling software and turnaround work processes.
• Previous experience serving as a master scheduler in a major turnaround is preferred
• Must be willing and able to travel both domestically and internationally up to 25% annually.
• 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.

Skills

• Front-End Loading (FEL): Applies FEL methodologies to support effective turnaround planning, readiness, and execution preparation.
• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to improve turnaround predictability, safety, and overall performance.
• Leadership: Provides direction, coaching, and support to schedulers and turnaround teams while promoting operating discipline and best practices.
• Communication: Communicates scheduling strategies, risks, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization.
• Stakeholder Management: Builds relationships and aligns diverse stakeholders to support turnaround objectives and drive effective decision-making.
• Facilitation: Leads reviews, discussions, and challenge sessions that encourage collaboration, resolve issues, and advance turnaround readiness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Works effectively across sites, businesses, and functions to achieve consistent turnaround outcomes in a global environment.

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 30countries and employ approximately36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately$43 billionin 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 visiting www.dow.com opens in a new tab .

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 opens in a new tab .

Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.

As a Global Turnaround Scheduler SME, you will live and work around Freeport (TX, USA), Texas, United States of America:

Employs: 7,000 individuals
Our footprint: Largest integrated chemical manufacturing complex in the Western Hemisphere
Our city: The city of Freeport is known for “Where Fun Happens”
Nearby: Attracts beachgoers, golfing, fishing and more.

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