Maintenance Technician at Dow Terneuzen

Are you a skilled Maintenance Technician with a passion for ensuring optimal equipment performance? Join Dow in Terneuzen and be part of a dynamic team focused on maintaining and improving plant operations. With your technical expertise, you'll play a key role in troubleshooting, repairing, and optimizing equipment to keep production running smoothly. Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply today!

Manpower is actively seeking for a Maintenance Technician for Dow in Terneuzen.


As a maintenance professional, you will ensure efficient plant operations by maintaining and repairing equipment within your expertise. You will diagnose and correct equipment issues, calibrate and align machinery, and perform preventative maintenance to minimize downtime. Your role includes specifying, requisitioning, and installing parts, coordinating spare parts, and supporting planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks. You will also test, measure, and repair various controls and instruments, working with pneumatic, electrical, and electronic systems. Additionally, you will troubleshoot malfunctions, document failures, and use data to enhance reliability and performance.

What’s in it for you

• Competitive salary
• If you bring someone to DOW and they are still employed after 1 month, you will receive a bonus of 250 euros
• Travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometre and reimbursement of Westerscheldetunnel costs
• Pension accrual via Manpower.
• Full-time job of 40 hours per week
• Fixed-term contract via Manpower, at Dow
• Free training via e-learning platform Manpower Academy
• Great working atmosphere

Dow is an international player in the chemical industry. Worldwide, Dow has 104 plants in 31 countries and employs 36,000 people. Products and solutions include plastics, industrial 'intermediates', coatings and silicones. Innovation, sustainability and inclusiveness are at the forefront.

The Terneuzen site consists of the Dow Industry Park (production site) and the Dow Service Centre. In total, Dow Terneuzen employs over 3,600 people, with more than 50 nationalities, making Dow one of the largest employers in Zeeland. Whether you work in production, logistics, finance, human resources, customer service or research: if you want to develop yourself, Dow is the employer for you!   

Working hours
Your working hours will be discussed with you at a later stage.

• Short-Cycle Tertiary Degree (e.g., Associate's Degree) in maintenance, manufacturing, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Availability of 40 hours per week
• Broad technical skills in analytical/scientific methods and operational processes
• Experience with sizing components, requisitioning, and installing parts
• Ability to repair and install process equipment and machinery
• Experience troubleshooting malfunctions and using failure analysis for operational improvements
• Ability to collect operational data to drive reliability improvements

You bring broad technical skills in analytical and scientific methods, and operational processes. You have experience with sizing components, requisitioning, and installing parts. You are adept at repairing and installing process equipment and machinery, troubleshooting malfunctions, and using failure analysis for operational improvements. Your ability to collect operational data enables you to drive reliability improvements in the workplace.

We understand the importance of work-life balance and a smooth commute for our Belgian candidates. Dow in Terneuzen offers opportunities that are just a short drive away, with competitive benefits and career growth potential.