Discipline Engineering and Technical Governance Senior Manager

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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! This is a Global Role that acts as the discipline engineering and technical backbone of the organization, ensuring that discipline engineering is not only correct and safe, but competitive, protected, and consistently delivered at high quality across both projects and in support of operating assets. Leads the global discipline engineering capability and establishes robust technical governance across the full project and asset lifecycle. Accountable for defining engineering standards, ensuring technical excellence, and enforcing consistent design and execution practices across regions and projects. This position drives competitiveness through optimized design, cost efficiency, and standardization, while safeguarding the company's intellectual property and proprietary know-how embedded in technologies, specifications, and execution methods. Equally, the incumbent manages and develops a global team of discipline engineers, providing mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to build a strong and sustainable internal capability, while effectively leveraging externally sourced engineering resources as part of a flexible delivery model. Additionally, provides discipline engineering support to operating assets when required, ensuring technical challenges are resolved timely and effectively and that operational insights are captured and embedded into engineering standards and practices. Ensures that discipline leads to delivering high-quality, consistent, and fit-for-purpose engineering deliverables across all project phases, maintaining alignment with company standards, project requirements, and best practices. How You Will Make an Impact: Global Discipline Engineering Leadership & Capability Development: Lead, manage, and develop a global team of discipline engineers and/or discipline leads either internal or external to Cabot. Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to build a strong and sustainable internal capability based on the discipline gaps identified. Define competency frameworks, career paths, and succession pipelines for discipline engineering. Ensure the organization has access to the right expertise across projects and operating assets and frame discipline expertise to meet this requirement. Technical Governance & Standards Establish, maintain, and continuously improve global engineering technical/discipline standards, specifications, and design guidelines. Define and enforce technical governance reviews and approvals via design reviews, stage gates, approvals and others. Act as the final authority on technical decisions, deviations, and risk acceptance. Ensure consistent application of codes, standards, and best practices across all regions and projects. Engineering Quality Assurance & Deliverables Oversight Ensure discipline leads to delivering high-quality, consistent, and fit-for-purpose engineering deliverables across all project phases. Define quality expectations, deliverable requirements, and review mechanisms. Lead and participate in key technical reviews (concept, FEED, detailed design, HAZOP, constructability). Drive accountability for engineering quality and minimize rework, late changes, and design inefficiencies. Engineering Delivery Model (Internal & External) Define and implement the strategy for internally delivered vs. externally sourced engineering. Ensure optimal use of external engineering partners while retaining control of critical knowledge. Oversee contractor performance and ensure compliance with company standards and business segments expectations. Establish clear technical boundaries on scope, responsibilities, and deliverables between internal teams and external providers. Competitiveness & Value Engineering Drive design-to-cost and value engineering practices across all projects. Promote standardization, modularization, and replication of proven solutions. Challenge overdesign and ensure engineering solutions are fit-for-purpose and cost-effective. Benchmark engineering practices and solutions against industry standards to maintain competitiveness. Collaborate with procurement, supply chain, and vendors to ensure proper definition of sourcing stra