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The High Pressure Copolymers (HPC) Product R&D is hiring for an R&D Technician to join our team and to be located at the Dow Texas Innovation Center in Lake Jackson, TX.

The selected candidate will support several key HPC product technologies, including asphalt binder development laboratory, small-scale compounding for melt blending polymers, and specialty resins application testing such as packaging films and coatings.

Dow’s HPC product portfolio serves high-value, and high-technology application areas like compatibilization for recycle, structural glass, medical and high barrier food packaging, asphalt modification, building panels, and electronic vehicles. Trends in sustainability, transportation electrification, safe building standards, and investment in infrastructure offer new opportunities and pose new technology challenges in this product portfolio.

About you and this role - What you will do in this role

You would be expected to have a strong safety record, technical focus, analytical acumen, and growth mindset to support new development areas and customer innovation projects. You are also expected to balance your workload across customer requests and laboratory improvement initiatives and laboratory maintenance. You would need to deliver effective and timely communication of results to researchers, scientists and project stakeholders.

Responsibilities - Duties, projects, tasks, and activities you would be responsible for in this role

• Provide technical support to asphalt lab and delivery testing results for time-sensitive customer requests or field trial needs.
• Routinely generate binder formulations containing bitumen (asphalt), catalyst, and polymers.
• Operate laboratory equipment and analytical instrumentation including, but not limited to mixers and high shear mixers, ovens, high and low-temperature rheometers, viscometers, pressurized aging equipment, specialized tensile measurement, and others.
• Ability to learn and build skills with new equipment such as small-scale compounding for melt blending polymers.
• Performs specialty resins application testing such as making coating of polymer dispersion, adhesion test for coextruded films or laminated composite structures.
• Use computer software to plan, analyze, and evaluate laboratory experiments and data utilizing Excel, Nautilus LIMS, Word, PowerPoint, ELN and available research software.
• Develop proficiency in all routine laboratory methods critical for innovation projects and customer technical support (cross-training; back-up); commitment to working safely and building a strong safety culture.
• Communicate results through oral and written research reports, ELN, data presentations, and direct interaction with chemists, engineers, and leadership.

Qualifications - Required education, experience and abilities that are needed for this role (must haves)

• A minimum of associate degree in STEM related field.
• Must be proficiency in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Excel, and be able to learn new systems quickly.
• 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:

Must be able to do the following with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Lift, push, and pull up to 55 pounds.
• Frequently bend, reach, and lift.
• Working in an industrial laboratory and chemical manufacturing site.

**The Dow Chemical Company does not offer relocation assistance for this position. This includes reimbursement for travel expenses incurred to and from test sessions/interviews. If you apply for a position that is not within the area in which you reside, you will be responsible for all costs that you incur. **

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.

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