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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 opportunity for a Lead TS&D Specialist / Senior TS&D Specialist as part of Dow Plastics Additives (DPA) located in Lauterbourg, France. In this fast paced, customer-facing technical role you are a member of a customer account team within the Technical Support and Development (TS&D) Group. You will partner with technical team members, sales, and marketing to support the commercialization of new innovations and defend existing business.  By conducting robust scouting and through close collaboration with key customers, you will conduct development activities to fill our innovation pipeline. Your primary job role will involve supporting the DPA new business development portfolio in engineering thermoplastics and thermosets applications, and delivery of Dow’s business strategy to provide differentiated innovation to key partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide TS&D support to business accounts by responding to technical questions and needs of customers.
• Use broad market, customer, and application knowledge and understanding of competitive technologies to solve complex technical issues.
• Prepare experimental plans, using relevant internal test methods, to develop results which provide insights into application performance.
• Develop applications and implement solutions to eliminate defects and improve performance of products.
• Deliver presentations or reports that distill complex ideas into clear results and proposals; communicate appropriately to influence internal and external audiences.
• Communicate and appropriately document work in the form of internal reports/Report of Call's/presentations.
• Recognize patentable ideas, participates on patent teams and generates critical data to support the protection of intellectual properties.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required.
• Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or science related field required.
• Masters degree or additional relevant study is preferred.
• Must be willing and able to meet all applicable requirements related to business travel supporting customers throughout EMEAI.  Approximately 25% travel is expected.
• Must speak fluent English and speaking French is preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Technical experience with material science and processing of Engineering Thermoplastic polymers.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with plastics conversion processes, such as injection molding, extrusion, calendaring, and compounding.

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) 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 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. 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.

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.