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Sr. Technician, Applications Development

Locations US-MA-Billerica
Requisition ID
2025-12996
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot's Business & Technology Center in Billerica is looking for a Sr. Technician, Applications Development to join their team! This person will work efficiently under limited supervision and performs complex chemical laboratory work to support new product, process and application projects in Cabot’s Fumed Metal Oxides and Specialty Carbons business units. Areas of focus include Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants and Elastomers and Plastics, and emerging applications under New Growth Initiatives subsegment. 

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Conduct lab work efficiently to support new product and application development projects, which include establishing new formulations and testing capabilities.
  • Identify risks, investigate and address technical barrier and issues in the workflow.
  • Generate, organize data and provide advanced interpretation to the observations and data.
  • Document test results using electronic notebooks, digital database.
  • Respond to internal and external (customer) inquiries promptly by telephone or emails. May provide information to customers regarding selection and application of Cabot products.
  • May provide training and/or technical guidance to less experienced technicians.
  • Participate and lead development of new experiment SOP and test methods, commission of new equipment.
  • Calibrate testing equipment and performs routine maintenance as needed
  • Adhere to high SH&E standards. Participate in safety meetings and complete required safety trainings.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • Minimal Post-secondary studies; certification, specialized/vocational training or equivalent required.
  • Minimal 3-5 years’ laboratory work experience related to chemical products, formulation and application development required.
  • Broad knowledge and hands-on experience in chemical laboratory work, equipment and procedures. Knowledge of chemical and laboratory safety management and waste disposal practices.
  • Knowledge of chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer and plastics engineering, formulation, design of experiments preferred
  • Strong hands-on and analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems.
  • Service orientation and ability to follow through internal and external requests and respond in a prompt and efficient manner.
  • Strong learning and communication skills. Ability to probe questions in order to understand underlying issues. Ability to translate technical terminology and speak and write clearly.
  • Being accountable and agile, can handle projects and tasks independently with minimal supervision.
  • Ability to prioritize lab activities and conduct work with minimal supervision
  • PC skills and ability to use database application, MS Office
  • Collaborative and can-do attitude, good inter-personal skills; willing to share information and resources with peers.

 

How We Will Support Your Success:

  • Dynamic, Flexible, Team Environment – We are working smart, collaborative, and we are doing meaningful work.
  • Growth – While you will be helping to build out our strategic position in Global Engineering, you will have opportunity to gain experience and develop as well.  We are passionate about personal development, peer support, and the ability to personally grow skills sets.
  • Flexible Work Environment– The autonomy to manage your schedule and ensure you are delivering on meaningful work with a balanced approach!
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc.– We offer benefits packages that are highly competitive within the regions we operate.
  • Feedback– We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion that supports and promotes your success.
  • Support – You will be a part of a team that is impacting the direction of the company’s talent, a team that builds you up 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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