Associate Reliability 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!

Job Requirements (Principal Responsibilities)

• Responsible for checking and acting upon predictive maintenance results. Thermal imaging, oil analysis and vibration monitoring program.

• Assists in the design, procurement, and installation of new equipment to support new product development and commercialization and existing process improvements.

• Determines, selects and implements technically feasible and economically viable alternatives for sustainment.

• Analyzes and evaluates how to improve a system and/or equipment’s sustainability under continued operations, maintenance and unexpected change.

• Collects and evaluates service use and maintenance data; conducts root-cause analyses of manufacturing problems (e.g., operational hazards, deficiency reports, parts obsolescence, corrosion effects, reliability and maintainability trends, safety hazards, and failure causes and effects) and implements corrective action.

• Ensures all product and process changes are implemented in line with appropriate Management of Change (MOC) principles.

• 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.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors)

• General knowledge and ability in statistical methods and tools, such as Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode Experimental Analysis, Statistical Process Control and others.

• Adept with equipment calibration and maintenance

• Ability to analyze and interpret data and draw well-reasoned conclusions.

Education/Experience

• Bachelors degree in a relevant Engineering discipline

• 0 – 2 years of relevant experience

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.