Process Safety Management & Quality Manager

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 Corporation is seeking a Process Safety Management (PSM) & Quality Manager for our Midland, MI site.

This role leads the programs that keep our people safe and our customers confident. This role is largely focused on Process Safety Management and secondary, site Quality, a rare chance for a PSM expert to own the program, broaden into Quality leadership and leave their mark across the whole site.

This position is onsite 5 days per week and reports to the Facility General Manager. 

In this role, you will: 

• Lead Cabot Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs) and Hazard Reviews, including action plans and recommendation tracking. 

• Coordinate PSM training, documentation, self-assessments, audits, and compliance activities. 

• Support key PSM elements, including Mechanical Integrity, Management of Change, and Process Safety Information. 

• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and SH&E to strengthen process safety and integrate PSM into daily activities
• Lead site Quality Control (QC), Quality Assurance (QA), and Process Safety Management (PSM) programs. 

• Ensure compliance with ISO, Quality System, Cabot PSM, and applicable regulatory requirements. 

• Partner with Production, Sales, and Technical teams to resolve product quality and customer issues. 

• Drive continuous improvement through statistical analysis, process control, and corrective actions. 

• Develop and maintain procedures for raw material, process, and product testing. 

• Support laboratory operations, LIMS, quality documentation systems, and shipment release. 

• Participate on the site leadership team and support regional and global Quality initiatives. 

• Manage departmental budgets, priorities, employees, and change initiatives. 

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• Ensures ongoing compliance with ISO and Quality System requirements as well as the definition and execution of continuous improvement activities.  Manages continuous improvement process within the plant including daily control and statistical methods.  Recommends improvements related to lab management and reporting systems in concert with regional and global team; assures that procedural and technical consistency meet global standards of excellence in a cost-effective manner.

• Works with sales and technical service personnel to identify customer expectations and ensure that these take priority in daily plant activities.

• Acts as coach and resource for lab personnel to ensure compliance with all legal and statutory requirements.  Provide technical skills support and assessment for laboratory testing and oversees shipment releases.

• Participates as member of the local management team and promotes a customer service culture at the plant. 

• Implements plans to support Global and Regional Quality initiatives, including ISO, Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS), etc. Develops plans for implementation and maintenance of software for Quality documentation management.

• Monitors and reports efforts to resolve customer complaints.  Develops and maintains operation of the Corrective Action Request System. Develops plan to teach and monitor the use of manufacturing statistical tools for problem solving and decision-making in the plant.

• Plans, prepares and monitors departmental budgets and expenditures. Effectively practice Performance Based Management by coaching and developing employees, direct as well as matrix reports, and assuring effective alignment with the matrix functions. 
• Supports local site for improvements regarding QA, QC and laboratory activities in the plant, target with manufacturing and regional quality group specific quality goals/gaps and identify/prioritize statistical methods to resolve problems.
• Supports 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

• 5+ years of technical experience in PSM (i.e. management of change (MOC), mechanical integrity, process safety information, and corrective-action management, etc) and quality.
• Chemical, oil/gas and manufacturing environments preferred.

• Knowledge of QA/QC, ISO management systems, Statistical Process Control, continuous improvement, manufacturing process control, and laboratory systems. 

• Working knowledge of OSHA Process Safety Management principles. 

• Familiarity with PHA methodologies such as HAZOP, What-If/Checklist, or FMEA preferred. 

• Understanding of Management of Change, Mechanical Integrity, Process Safety Information, and corrective-action management. 

• Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, coaching, and cross-functional communication skills. 

• Ability to work effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, SH&E, and site leadership. 

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 –Training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.
• Meaningful Work that is Valued – Customers are demanding sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner 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. Benefits begin on first day of employment. Cabot Benefits
• Feedback – We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.

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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.