Sr Project Engineer

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow's needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

If you do not meet every requirement, or your experience is slightly different that what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!

How You'll Make an Impact:

Using your knowledge, skills and abilities, you will provide project leadership during all plant engineering project phases. This role requires a self-motivated person with a positive attitude, strong organization skills, and urgency to make things happen. A successful candidate will be someone who can:

Provide project leadership during all plant engineering project phases.

o During Conceptual Phase (Opportunity and Alternatives Analysis), responsible for coordinating engineers' activities with other disciplines and departments.

o Responsible for preparing or working with project controls to prepare factored estimate and milestone schedule.

o During Front End Engineering and Detailed Design, responsible for marshaling and coordinating internal engineering resources, external engineering resources, and divisional departments to complete required deliverables.

o Primarily responsible for Project Execution Plant, Project Scope of Work, Project Objectives, and Project Design Basis.

o Responsible for ensuring that deviations from these documents are noted and approved (if necessary) and documents are kept up to date.

Work within project teams to identify opportunities, establish project objectives, identify alternatives, and solicit funds for all phases of project and report deviations on scope, cost, or schedule.

Be responsible for all project reporting functions.

Develop project scope, cost and schedule.

Work with Accounting and Finance to ensure project cost data is correct and reliable, items are expensed or capitalized correctly and timely, and projects are closed out in a timely fashion.

Approve vendor and contractor invoices for payment.

Be responsible for providing Engineering/Maintenance Manager with input on internal time sheet charges by either Engineering or Maintenance personnel.

Be responsible for ultimate design decisions, division of responsibilities, establishment of procedures / formalities / policies, establishing selection criteria/approvals, bidding versus sole source, shop verses field fabrication, etc.

Work with local, state, and federal regulation bodies, and company insurance carrier engineer, to ensure project compliance with these codes and standards.

Provide timely reporting of cost, schedule, and milestones achieved for each project on backlog.

Support efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care Management System in line with the requirements of the RC14001 technical specification, as applicable to the site/region.

What You'll Bring to Cabot:

* BS in Engineering discipline (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls and instrumentation).

* 5+ years project execution experience.

* Ability to focus for long periods of time

* Strong knowledge of engineering theories and principles.

* Excellent communication, verbal and written, and presentation skills are a must.

* Excellent plant troubleshooting skills.

* Must be able to lead project teams with multiple disciplines and multiple departments.

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* Demonstrated Critical Thinking skills

* Ability to complete all essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

How We'll Support Your Success:

• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment - We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Growth- Great training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.
• Meaningful Work that is Valued- The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner energy future. It is an awesome feeling to know you're making a living by making a positive impact in the world; and to be able to say, "I was a part of that."
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc.- We offer a competitive package of benefits.
• Feedback- we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
• Support- you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. Our employees are the lifeblood of our business. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, "Creating for Tomorrow," we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability - today and into the future.

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001
Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees' and applicants' disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay
This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks
Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.