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Sr Maintenance Engineer - Manager

Cabot · Hopkinsville, KY

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Level
Manager
Team
Reliability
Degree
Required
Experience asked
5+ years
Industry
Chemicals
Posted
30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A management reliability role at Cabot (chemicals) in Hopkinsville, KY. In the role of Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will collaborate closely with Operations and Reliability teams to develop and implement strategic maintenance plans for the plant.

They ask for
5+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Welding

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How this role compares

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Base pay
Not listed in this posting

Typical $104k–$140k, from 170 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
Typical (5+ years)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Root cause 52%
  • ✓ Team leadership 31%
  • Automation 26%
  • FMEA 25%

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Stands out: this posting asks for Welding, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 5+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone on the team first.

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This plant: Cabot in Hopkinsville

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requirements

of the RC14001® technical specification, as applicable to the site/region.

Education/Experience

  • ✓Bachelor/University degree in a Mechanical Engineering discipline.
  • ✓Minimum 5+ years’ experience in an appropriate manufacturing environment.
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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!

At Cabot Hopkinsville we produce conductive additive products for use in critical battery applications These products are enabling the energy transition. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility featuring advanced carbon black furnaces that are ideally positioning us to fulfill the future demand of the growing global battery market.

In the role of Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will collaborate closely with Operations and Reliability teams to develop and implement strategic maintenance plans for the plant. You will be responsible for defining and driving a comprehensive maintenance strategy to ensure optimal plant performance, asset reliability, and operational continuity.

The role includes identifying upcoming maintenance projects, major equipment repairs and replacements, and developing detailed scopes of work for significant maintenance activities to support safe, efficient, and sustainable plant operations.

How You Will Make an Impact

Identifies, recommends and implements equipment repairs of stationery and rotating equipment by working with manufacturers, OEM and outside repair shops.

  • •Develops standard new equipment specifications and repair procedures for equipment in critical applications
  • •Manages in the design, procurement and installation of new equipment. May develop plant-wide Standard Operating Procedures for process and equipment operation.
  • •Implements maintenance expense/L1 capital improvement projects and maintaining and publishing schedule for strategic maintenance projects
  • •Supervises major equipment repairs and modifications. Provides direction and recommendations for equipment modifications and upgrades to improve plant performance.
  • •Supports efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care® Management System in line with the

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • •Knowledge in areas such as Safe Work Practices, Confined Space Entry, LT&T, hot work, and other permitting processes.
  • •Strong mechanical aptitude
  • •Knowledge/background in welding processes
  • •Knowledge of rotating equipment design and repair
  • •Expert knowledge of equipment lubrication
  • •Knowledge of ASME codes

How We’ll Support Your Success

  • •Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing meaningful work.
  • •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. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success

#CIND

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

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 suc

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