Cabot Corporation
Process Safety Management / PSM Engineer - Franklin, LA Onsite
Cabot Corporation, Abbeville, Louisiana, United States, 70510
Process Safety Management / PSM Engineer – Franklin, LA Onsite
Cabot Corporation is seeking a Process Safety Management (PSM) Engineer to join the Technical & Operations team onsite at the Franklin, LA site. This is an ideal role for a technical professional who has a passion for process safety and looking to make a site-wide impact through the development and management of the process safety plan for Cabot’s largest carbon black facility.
The PSM Engineer will initiate activities, procedures, and projects that improve product quality, optimize production capacity, ensure equipment reliability, provide capital improvements, integrate new technology and practices, and optimize overall performance. The candidate must have strong self‑motivation, a desire to work in an environment of continuous improvement, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a collaborative mindset for interaction with all organizational levels and functions.
What We’re Looking For:
Would you like to contribute to ensure we operate our facility responsibly?
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?
How You Will Make An Impact:
In this role, you are the responsible person for the plant’s development, implementation and ongoing day‑to‑day management of Cabot’s process safety management systems assuring compliance with Cabot’s process safety requirements, as well as OSHA and EPA RMP regulations (as required).
Skills:
This role requires a safety mind‑set, self‑motivated person with a positive attitude, a ton of good energy, effective time management, organization, and record‑keeping skills. A successful candidate will be someone who can:
Develop, manage, and coordinate the ongoing maintenance of all PSM elements including employee participation plans, written process safety information, process hazard analyses, written operating procedures, training and documentation, contractor requirements, pre‑startup safety reviews, management of change, incident investigations, compliance audit, and trade secrets.
Hazard identification & risk assessment: lead Process Hazard Analyses for the site, mentor others in conducting risk assessments, understand how process safety hazards are controlled, what those controls are and how effective they are, identify control improvements or new controls for risk reduction.
Management of change: initiate change management process, prepare MOC documents, understand the change and can update information systems such as drawings, manuals, procedures, recognize theory of implementing change and how changes will affect risk, communicate changes as required, actively implement change management procedures, authorize change in their area or review it.
Systems manuals & drawings: define document management system and its use in training, contribute to the development and review of P&ID, process flows, manuals and other operational documentation, use MOC for communicating document changes, use process safety information to explain actual process performance issues, understand how the document control system works and how to make suggestions for improvement, use process safety information in emergency situations.
Safety: ensure the safety compliance of the plant utilities and operating units within the plant, exhibit safe behaviours, promote behavioural safety systems with others, update operating procedures, assist in training unit operators, and lead the management of change process.
Environmental: ensure environmental compliance of plant utilities and operating units, monitor plant emissions to ensure permit compliance, ensure new installations meet environmental requirements through the management of change process, investigate processes and procedures that reduce the environmental footprint of the plant and implement changes.
What You Will Bring To Cabot:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical disciplines is required.
2+ years’ experience in a chemical manufacturing environment.
Production experience in specialty chemical industry or petrochemical industries preferred.
Technical excellence: basic knowledge of chemistry, understanding of statistical process control (SPC) tools and principals, experience with analytical problem‑solving methodologies (root‑cause analysis, failure‑mode analysis) and quality management principles, ensures compliance with all standards, regulations, and industry best practices (OSHA, RC14001, ISO 9001, PSM).
Communication & presentation skills: ability to engage in verbal and written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy with a broad range of stakeholders.
Computer skills: excellent skills with Microsoft Office, Aspen IP.21, AutoCAD, and data analysis (preferred).
Guide results: generate data, conduct analysis, and organize and interpret data to establish and support equipment.
Works safely: strictly follows and complies with all SH&E procedures, standards and regulations and constantly strives for excellence in safety, health, and environmental preservation. Familiar with topics such as process safety management, safe‑work permitting, lockout/tagout, emergency response, and hazard recognition.
How We’ll Support Your Success:
Dynamic, flexible, hard‑working team environment – we are busy, collaborative, growing, and doing meaningful work.
Growth – training, peer coaching and support, and the opportunity to personally grow your influence and compensation.
Meaningful work that is valued – customers demand sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work is visible, and it helps create a more abundant, affordable, cleaner future.
Benefits, vacation, etc. – we offer a competitive package of benefits that begin on the first day of employment.
Feedback – commitment to giving and receiving feedback directly and openly.
Support – you are part of a team that encourages and supports you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.
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The PSM Engineer will initiate activities, procedures, and projects that improve product quality, optimize production capacity, ensure equipment reliability, provide capital improvements, integrate new technology and practices, and optimize overall performance. The candidate must have strong self‑motivation, a desire to work in an environment of continuous improvement, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a collaborative mindset for interaction with all organizational levels and functions.
What We’re Looking For:
Would you like to contribute to ensure we operate our facility responsibly?
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?
How You Will Make An Impact:
In this role, you are the responsible person for the plant’s development, implementation and ongoing day‑to‑day management of Cabot’s process safety management systems assuring compliance with Cabot’s process safety requirements, as well as OSHA and EPA RMP regulations (as required).
Skills:
This role requires a safety mind‑set, self‑motivated person with a positive attitude, a ton of good energy, effective time management, organization, and record‑keeping skills. A successful candidate will be someone who can:
Develop, manage, and coordinate the ongoing maintenance of all PSM elements including employee participation plans, written process safety information, process hazard analyses, written operating procedures, training and documentation, contractor requirements, pre‑startup safety reviews, management of change, incident investigations, compliance audit, and trade secrets.
Hazard identification & risk assessment: lead Process Hazard Analyses for the site, mentor others in conducting risk assessments, understand how process safety hazards are controlled, what those controls are and how effective they are, identify control improvements or new controls for risk reduction.
Management of change: initiate change management process, prepare MOC documents, understand the change and can update information systems such as drawings, manuals, procedures, recognize theory of implementing change and how changes will affect risk, communicate changes as required, actively implement change management procedures, authorize change in their area or review it.
Systems manuals & drawings: define document management system and its use in training, contribute to the development and review of P&ID, process flows, manuals and other operational documentation, use MOC for communicating document changes, use process safety information to explain actual process performance issues, understand how the document control system works and how to make suggestions for improvement, use process safety information in emergency situations.
Safety: ensure the safety compliance of the plant utilities and operating units within the plant, exhibit safe behaviours, promote behavioural safety systems with others, update operating procedures, assist in training unit operators, and lead the management of change process.
Environmental: ensure environmental compliance of plant utilities and operating units, monitor plant emissions to ensure permit compliance, ensure new installations meet environmental requirements through the management of change process, investigate processes and procedures that reduce the environmental footprint of the plant and implement changes.
What You Will Bring To Cabot:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical disciplines is required.
2+ years’ experience in a chemical manufacturing environment.
Production experience in specialty chemical industry or petrochemical industries preferred.
Technical excellence: basic knowledge of chemistry, understanding of statistical process control (SPC) tools and principals, experience with analytical problem‑solving methodologies (root‑cause analysis, failure‑mode analysis) and quality management principles, ensures compliance with all standards, regulations, and industry best practices (OSHA, RC14001, ISO 9001, PSM).
Communication & presentation skills: ability to engage in verbal and written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy with a broad range of stakeholders.
Computer skills: excellent skills with Microsoft Office, Aspen IP.21, AutoCAD, and data analysis (preferred).
Guide results: generate data, conduct analysis, and organize and interpret data to establish and support equipment.
Works safely: strictly follows and complies with all SH&E procedures, standards and regulations and constantly strives for excellence in safety, health, and environmental preservation. Familiar with topics such as process safety management, safe‑work permitting, lockout/tagout, emergency response, and hazard recognition.
How We’ll Support Your Success:
Dynamic, flexible, hard‑working team environment – we are busy, collaborative, growing, and doing meaningful work.
Growth – training, peer coaching and support, and the opportunity to personally grow your influence and compensation.
Meaningful work that is valued – customers demand sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work is visible, and it helps create a more abundant, affordable, cleaner future.
Benefits, vacation, etc. – we offer a competitive package of benefits that begin on the first day of employment.
Feedback – commitment to giving and receiving feedback directly and openly.
Support – you are part of a team that encourages and supports you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.
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