2023 Campus Internship

2 weeks ago


New Germany, South Africa Dow Full time

**Job Description**:

- 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 includes:
- 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, 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.- We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this?- Executes a variety of business, site, and plant/department quality tasks and activities, as defined in established procedures or project plans, to enable the business to profitably meet customer and product regulatory requirements related to the quality management system. Helps promote a customer-focused culture within a plant with complex interfaces and/or requirements and enhances the front-line knowledge and accountability for quality. Requires broadened technical skills in analytical/scientific methods or operational processes to perform a defined array of activities. May act as an informal resource for team members with less experience.- Responsibilities / Duties- Supports routine day-to-day implementation and maintenance tasks related to the plant quality system.
- Supports plant-level management of change activities related to product quality.
- Supports plant quality training related to key quality system requirements to meet customer and product regulatory needs as well as the use of supporting tools and processes to achieve plant and business quality goals.
- Monitors the effectiveness of the plant's quality management system. Supports strategic improvement opportunities.
- Supports product quality problem-solving efforts through the execution of data mining, traceability investigations, and batch reviews.
- Ensures that product returns and non-conforming products are appropriately managed to prevent unintended use, including disposition.
- Ensures plant Operating Discipline systems, procedures, and guidelines are improved and optimized to meet plant and business quality system requirements, as appropriate.
- Hosts customer and other quality-related external audits, in cooperation with commercial and other functions.
- Experience- Short-Cycle Tertiary Degree (i.e. Associate's Degree) in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) field plus manufacturing or other related experience.
- Students would complete tasks as outlined by the tertiary institute. Log Book tasks must be completed with support from the leadership team.
- Bi-monthly reviews would be held with the training coordinator and leadership to review the progress of tasks from the tertiary institute log book and the site projects assigned to the intern.
- Duration of the internship is for 12 months.

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  • New Germany, South Africa Dow Full time

    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...


  • New Germany, South Africa Dow Full time

    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...