EHS&S PS Composition Specialist

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Dow has an opportunity for a EHS&S PS Composition Specialist located in São Paulo - BRA. The Composition Specialist is responsible for determining, maintaining, and improving the accuracy and integrity of product composition data for Dow products. This role is aligned with EHS&S Product Safety Operations and plays a critical role in enabling regulatory compliance, product stewardship, and high-quality EHS&S data across the enterprise.

The position requires strong analytical capability, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to troubleshoot complex composition and data operability issues. The successful candidate is process-oriented, comfortable working with interdependencies, and able to operate with minimal supervision in a dynamic, global environment.

Responsibilities:

• Apply supply demand principles to prioritize EHS&S Composition related requests in accordance with defined work processes and job aids.

• Determine and maintain EHS&S Compositions and executes data processing as prescribed in work process / job aids .

• Identify EHS&S Composition data integrity issues/gaps, implement corrective actions to close those gaps.

• Troubleshoot and resolve atypical EHS&S Composition issues in collaboration with Product Stewardship, Quality and Product Regulatory Services (PRS).

• Interact on complex matters with interdependencies within the between Product Stewardship, Quality, PRS and EHS&S Integrated Services.

• Improve workflow design and suggest EHS&S Composition work processes improvements .

• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance workflow design, standardize processes, and improve EHS&S composition work practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor´s degree in Chemistry or other related scientific discipline is required.

• Experience with formulations and compositions.

• Advanced Excel.

• SAP.

• Fluent English.

Preferred qualifications:

• +5 years relevant industry experience is strongly preferred.

• Experience with legal compositions under chemical regulatory frameworks such as REACH, TSCA and others is desired.

Your Skills:

• Detail oriented and Critical thinking - Ensure accuracy, data integrity and consistence of composition data while enabling objective analysis, detect gaps or inconsistences, sound interpretation, and defensible decisions when addressing complex problems and uncertainty following work processes and job aids.

• Microsoft Excel - Used as one of the main tools to analyze and review composition data

• SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Used as a system of record to create, update and maintain legal and standard compositions, execute composition related workflows.

• Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) - Ensure alignment between SAP composition data and hazard communication requirements.

• Polymer Chemistry - It will be applied to understand polymer structure, monomer reactants, residuals, impurities, enabling accurate determination of standard and legal compositions.

• Chemical reactions - Used to assess how reactions, adjustments or processing steps define final standard and legal compositions, or troubleshooting atypical formulation scenarios.

• Regulatory compliance - Ensure composition meet global regulatory requirements.

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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)

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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 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 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.

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.