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Production Supervisor

Locations US-LA-Ville Platte
Requisition ID
2024-12649
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot Corporation is looking for a Production Supervisor to support our Ville Platte, LA manufacturing plant. The role will supervise production areas to assure efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness with the best use of resources and in respect of safety and environmental to meet all production requirements.

 

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Supervises team to maintain and increase safety, efficiency and skills and promote a cooperative attitude with subordinates.  May oversee work in other related areas when rotating to off-shift hours.
  • Recognizes the importance of process consistency, and continually works to improve it by initiating efforts to remove system (common) causes, and removing special cause variation, using tools such as SPC, failure mode and effects analysis.  Reduces equipment downtime and delays between operations.  Ensures compliance with standard operating procedures.
  • Accomplishes schedule requirements for internal and external customers in line with appropriate priorities based on the manufacturing plan.
  • Trains, provides clear instructions, and ensures employee understanding of production processes.  Provides employees with an understanding of work group and divisional plans, needs, and priorities.
  • Organizes tasks and activities for effective accomplishment of responsibilities and objectives.  Utilizes the appropriate resources to accomplish plans and follow through.
  • Continually monitors and improves manufacturing costs with respect to overall performance.  Interfaces with Production Manager and Accounting to quantify cost savings ideas.
  • Completes all required reports, records, and measurements, i.e. Production records, payroll authorizations, etc.
  • Effectively practices Performance Based Management by coaching an developing employees, and assuring effective alignment with the matrix functions.
  • 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 Will Bring to Cabot

 

  • Supervisory Experience required
  • Chemical production experience preferred
  • Knowledge of Emergency Response Procedures
  • Knowledge in areas such as confined space entry, lockout/tagout, hotwork permitting, etc.
  • Knowledge of Environmental Awareness
  • Understanding of Product Uniformity / Variation
  • Knowledge of Chemical Manufacturing
  • Knowledge of Manufacturing process control
  • Knowledge of Product specifications
  • Knowledge and ability in Accident/Near Miss Investigation/Reporting procedures
  • Technical knowledge of process and product technology
  • High School diploma; some college preferred. 
  • Minimum of four years experience in a manufacturing environment

 

How We’ll Support Your Success
• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are a busy, collaborative, growing, and continuously learning team who succeeds as a group, not individuals.
• 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.
• 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. We have a global team of engineers that are willing to help. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

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About Cabot


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.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

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.

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