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Project Engineer

Locations US-IL-Tuscola
Requisition ID
2025-12893
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot has an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineer to provide engineering work in support of capital or retrofit projects. We are seeking a fully qualified and experienced engineer who can manage/lead projects. The Project Engineer will work on-site at the Tuscola, IL plant.  

                                                                                             

  • Would you like to contribute to ensure we have proper designs?
  • Are you a positive, hard-working, energetic, and motivated professional with a passion for building relationships with a diverse team of colleagues?
  • Are you known for your integrity… for always doing the right thing?

 

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

How You Will Make an Impact

In this role, your primary duty is to provide conceptual engineering (opportunity and alternative analysis) project phase by developing scope of works, budgetary estimates, and preliminary drawings for project stakeholders. This role requires a safety mind-set, self-motivated person with a positive attitude, good energy, effective time management, organization, and record-keeping skills. A successful candidate will be someone who can:

  • Develop single line diagram, motor list, scope of work and deliverables as part of front-end engineering work.
  • Works with external resources to ensure that Cabot’s standards (written and unwritten) are followed and provides technical review support. 
  • Provide technical review support in cases of contracted services during Detail Design phase of projects. 
  • Provide equipment troubleshooting during startup and operation.
  • Able to travel and assist other sites with project engineering. 

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • Bachelor’s degree in a Technical discipline preferably Chemical Engineering and generally 3 to 5 years of experience of project execution.

  • Technical Excellence. Knowledge of principles and theories in Chemical Engineering. Excellent troubleshooting skills. Ensures compliance with all standards, regulations, and industry best practices (OSHA, RC14001, ISO 9001, PSM).
  • Communication & Presentation Skills. Ability to effectively engage in verbal and written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy with a broad range of stakeholders. Able to work with project teams with multiple departments. 
  • Computers. Excellent skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. Experience with AutoCad.
  • Works Safely. Strictly follows and complies with all SH&E procedures, standards and regulations and constantly strives for Excellence in the fields of sustainability and Safety, Health, and preservation of the Environment. Familiar with topics such as Process Safety Management (PSM), safe work permitting, lockout/tagout, emergency response, and hazard recognition. 

 

How We’ll Support Your Success:

  • Pay and Benefits – The salary range for this role is from 86,500 to 118,975. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is eligible for comprehensive benefits on the first day of employment and an annual discretionary bonus based company performance. Learn more about our benefits here!  Eligible for relocation assistance for those who are not local to the job location.
  • 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.”
  • Relocation Assistance - We offer relocation assistance for those who are not local to the job location.
  • 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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