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.
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This is a Global Role that acts as the discipline engineering and technical backbone of the organization, ensuring that discipline engineering is not only correct and safe, but competitive, protected, and consistently delivered at high quality across both projects and in support of operating assets. Leads the global discipline engineering capability and establishes robust technical governance across the full project and asset lifecycle. Accountable for defining engineering standards, ensuring technical excellence, and enforcing consistent design and execution practices across regions and projects. This position drives competitiveness through optimized design, cost efficiency, and standardization, while safeguarding the company’s intellectual property and proprietary know-how embedded in technologies, specifications, and execution methods. Equally, the incumbent manages and develops a global team of discipline engineers, providing mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to build a strong and sustainable internal capability, while effectively leveraging externally sourced engineering resources as part of a flexible delivery model. Additionally, provides discipline engineering support to operating assets when required, ensuring technical challenges are resolved timely and effectively and that operational insights are captured and embedded into engineering standards and practices. Ensures that discipline leads to delivering high-quality, consistent, and fit-for-purpose engineering deliverables across all project phases, maintaining alignment with company standards, project requirements, and best practices.
Lead, manage, and develop a global team of discipline engineers and/or discipline leads either internal or external to Cabot.
Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to build a strong and sustainable internal capability based on the discipline gaps identified.
Define competency frameworks, career paths, and succession pipelines for discipline engineering.
Ensure the organization has access to the right expertise across projects and operating assets and frame discipline expertise to meet this requirement.
Establish, maintain, and continuously improve global engineering technical/discipline standards, specifications, and design guidelines.
Define and enforce technical governance reviews and approvals via design reviews, stage gates, approvals and others.
Act as the final authority on technical decisions, deviations, and risk acceptance.
Ensure consistent application of codes, standards, and best practices across all regions and projects.
Ensure discipline leads to delivering high-quality, consistent, and fit-for-purpose engineering deliverables across all project phases.
Define quality expectations, deliverable requirements, and review mechanisms.
Lead and participate in key technical reviews (concept, FEED, detailed design, HAZOP, constructability).
Drive accountability for engineering quality and minimize rework, late changes, and design inefficiencies.
Define and implement the strategy for internally delivered vs. externally sourced engineering.
Ensure optimal use of external engineering partners while retaining control of critical knowledge.
Oversee contractor performance and ensure compliance with company standards and business segments expectations.
Establish clear technical boundaries on scope, responsibilities, and deliverables between internal teams and external providers.
Drive design-to-cost and value engineering practices across all projects.
Promote standardization, modularization, and replication of proven solutions.
Challenge overdesign and ensure engineering solutions are fit-for-purpose and cost-effective.
Benchmark engineering practices and solutions against industry standards to maintain competitiveness.
Collaborate with procurement, supply chain, and vendors to ensure proper definition of sourcing strategies that reduce risk, optimize cost, shorten lead times and enhance availability.
Identify, formalize, and protect critical company know-how and proprietary discipline engineering practices.
Define what engineering content and expertise must remain internal.
Establish safeguards to prevent IP leakage, especially when working with external partners.
Ensure structured capture, documentation, and reuse of technical knowledge across projects and operations.
Provide independent technical oversight and assurance across capital projects.
Support project teams in resolving complex technical challenges.
Ensure engineering consistency and quality from early concept through commissioning.
Participate in key project decision meetings and technical risk assessments
Provide discipline engineering support to operating assets when required.
Support troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and debottlenecking initiatives.
Capture lessons learned from operations and integrate them into standards and design practices.
Ensure operational experience continuously improves future project execution
Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements.
Identify, assess, and mitigate technical and engineering-related risks, including IP-related risks.
Govern deviations, waivers, and technical exceptions with a structured and transparent approach.
Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tools, and ways of working always ensuring to stay ahead vs best practices in engineering efficiencies and project costs.
Promote innovation while ensuring ownership and protection of developed solutions.
Advance digital engineering and data-driven decision-making, ensuring proper data governance and protection.
This is a high-travel role (typically 30-50%).
Regular presence at project sites, engineering hubs, and contractor locations is required.
Travel is a fundamental requirement to ensure alignment, performance, and issue resolution.
Strong knowledge of discipline engineering (piping, electrical, instruments, civil, structural, architectural) principles and practices.
Financial management skills including the ability to develop and monitor budgets, expenses, etc.
Deep understanding of multiple engineering disciplines and their integration and correlation with other parts of project execution.
Ability to challenge, validate, and guide complex technical decisions from different disciplines.
Strong capability to establish and enforce discipline engineering standards and governance frameworks.
Ability to define clear expectations and hold discipline leads accountable.
Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams.
Ability to drive design-to-cost, standardization, and optimization strategies.
Ensures critical knowledge is retained, structured, and leveraged as a competitive advantage
Promote innovation, digitalization, and continuous improvement in engineering practice.
Strong English language written and oral skills.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering; advanced degree in engineering is a plus.
15 or more of progressive experience in discipline engineering and/or engineering management including a combination of capital project execution, discipline engineering leadership and support to operating industrial assets.
Proven experience in large capital projects within a global environment and/or,
Demonstrated leadership of multi discipline engineering teams; management of teams geographically dispersed is a plus.
Proven and strong background in engineering design leadership, engineering standards, and discipline engineering technical governance.
Proven understanding and application of codes, standards, and regulatory requirements across regions.
Strong track record in selecting, managing, and governing engineering service providers at a regional and global level.
Experienced and strong track record in driving cost optimization, value engineering, and design-to-cost initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to challenge overdesign and improve engineering efficiency.
Familiarity with standardization, modularization, global sourcing and replication strategies.
Experience in navigating complex stakeholder environments across regions and functions.
Demonstrated skills in driving change across a global engineering organization (standards, ways of working, mindset)
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.
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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.