Maintenance Specialist

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! 

Your Role at Cabot:

Cabot has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Technician at our Pampa Development and Manufacturing Center, in Pampa, TX (PDMC).  This position is critical to the success of our Pilot Plant and is responsible for Machine Maintenance, carpentry, and plumbing. 

• Are you a positive, hard-working, energetic, and motivated person with a passion for creating and building things?
• Are you knowledgeable in the maintenance crafts and ready to make a change in your career?
• Are you inspired to win? Are you known for your integrity… for always doing the right thing? 
• Are you curious, coachable, and passionate about learning?

If so, please consider the opportunity we have for you to join our team!

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

This role requires an intelligent, self-motivated person with a positive attitude, strong organizational skills, and urgency to make things happen. A successful candidate will be someone who can:

• Successfully complete machine maintenance: Inspect, install, troubleshoot, adjust and repair electro-mechanical equipment and facilities. 
• Work from specifications and complex drawings, manuals, verbal/written instructions.  Assemble and disassemble equipment to isolate and diagnose; correct equipment malfunctions by repairing or replacing defective parts.  Install and de-install processing equipment as needed.
• Carpentry: Use blueprints and drawings to build, repair, install structures, such as partitions, cabinets, doors, etc. Uses carpenter hand /power and measuring tools.
• Plumbing:  Maintain and repair plumbing fixtures, such as water tanks, heaters, pipes and joints.
• Use a variety of hand and power tools, such as cut-off saws, drill presses and others.
• Use business management system to enter and/or follow-up work and service orders.  May keep records and logs; tracks inventory levels.
• Perform preventative maintenance on equipment and systems adhering to established schedules.
• Maintain and continuously improve upon knowledge of all processes and equipment within their respective unit(s).  May recommend improvements to electro-mechanical systems.
• Participates in scheduled safety meetings and completes safety training requirements.
• Keeps working area safe and clean.
• 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:

• Full knowledge of maintenance and repair procedures and methods; knowledge of equipment and related tools, including hand tools, cut-off saws, drill presses, etc.  Knowledge of a variety of machine tools, mechanical parts, bearings, gears, and others. Familiarity with mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic control systems
• Ability to interpret blueprints and drawings; perform required shop mathematics
• Mechanical troubleshooting skills.  Ability to promptly diagnose and correct equipment malfunctions.
• Ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively with others in a team-based environment.
• Flexibility in performing changing assignments; ability to work off shift and after hours as needed.
• Education/Experience
  • Vocational/technical school and completed (certified) apprenticeship strongly preferred.
  • 5+ years’ experience preferred

How We’ll Support Your Success: 

• • Dynamic, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
  • Growth – One of our goals is to create long term careers with our employees.  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.
  • Base pay – The salary range for this position is based upon applicable skills, knowledge and abilities. This position is available for overtime payments.  
  • 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. 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.