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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.
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Summary
The HSE Officer works with the SH&E Manager to drive a proactive safety culture and support the effective delivery of Cabot’s Safety, Health, and Environmental systems. The role leads and supports SHE programmes, audits, inspections, and behavioral safety activity, ensuring compliance with legislation, ISO standards, corporate requirements, and site procedures.
Actively contribute to Process Safety Management (PSM), emergency response preparedness, training delivery, contractor management, and life-critical risk controls. This role needs solid HSE knowledge and strong field engagement to influence safe behaviors and help strengthen our ZERO Incident culture.
Manages site compliance and continuous improvement with regard to all Environmental legislation including Environmental permit, Waste legislation, and Climate Change agreement, any new/future Environmental legislation, and all external/internal reporting requirements.
Essential Functions
- Apply Cabot SH&E policies and procedures consistently and support the SH&E Manager with maintaining and updating plant standards, procedures, and risk assessments.
- Manage and maintain SH&E systems including Intelex, contractor records, eLearning, and induction platforms.
- Manages interactions with Environmental permitting authority ensuring compliance with all operational and reporting requirements are met.
- Ensure the site remains compliant with all current and future regulatory systems and manages reporting requirements (waste packaging regulations, CCA, etc.).
- Manages ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 BMS system requirements including; audits, documentation, and ongoing accreditation requirements.
- Support Process Safety Management activities, including Risk assessments, MOC, PSI reviews, PSSR, and PHA-related tasks.
- Conduct routine site audits, life-critical audits, safety tours, inspections, and behavioral safety conversations (SUSA / MBWA).
- Support the site Environmental systems (Spill management, noise monitoring, etc.).
- Produce clear audit reports, assign actions in Intelex, and verify effective closure.
- Lead and support behavioral safety initiatives and carry out compliance reviews of work activities, SSOW, and permit-to-work documentation.
- Update occupational health records and SharePoint with employee results, prepare result notifications, and file all industrial hygiene reports and OH surveillance monitoring.
- Ensure site compliance with the waste management plan to include Vendor management, KPI monitoring, and reporting.
- Coordinate relative contractor inductions, competency checks, permits, and in-field monitoring support.
- Develop and deliver Health safety & Environmental inductions, toolbox talks, and awareness training, support the Mandatory site EHS training scheduling, and maintain accurate competence records.
- Support employee participation programs and life-critical risk training.
- Support emergency response arrangements and help lead exercises, drills, and preparedness training.
- Participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and tracking corrective actions.
- Collect, analyze, and report key SH&E metrics and monitor trends to drive improvements.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives, CI projects, and assessments of new equipment, processes, or materials.
- Handle daily SH&E queries, support corporate and local SH&E objectives, engage in committees/working groups, and deputise for the SH&E Manager when required.
- Site representative at Environmental groups (Community Advisory Panel, Flood protection, Joint sites).
- Any other duties deemed appropriate within the scope of the role and in line with skills and experience.
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Knowledge/Qualification/Education
- NEBOSH/ISEP (IEMA) General Certificate (or equivalent) preferred; IOSH Managing Safely minimum, with willingness to progress to NEBOSH.
- Strong foundational knowledge of UK Health, Safety & Environmental legislation, principles, and best practice guidance.
- Practical understanding of risk assessment, COSHH, safe systems of work, permit-to-work, LOTO, confined space, working at height, and other key operational controls.
- Working knowledge of management systems (ISO 45001 / ISO 14001) and audit processes.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office software to create EHS Dashboards, Proformas, Presentations, etc.
- Able to navigate digital systems like Sharepoint, eLearning, Intelex, etc.
- Experience within a manufacturing, chemical, or industrial environment desirable.
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Experience
- Demonstrable experience within an SH&E related role (entry to mid-level).
- Strong aptitude and practical application of SH&E principles in industrial environments.
- Experience conducting audits, inspections, and behavioral safety interactions.
- Experience supporting contractor management and training delivery.
- Ability to analyze data and produce clear, meaningful reports.
- Strong organization and communication skills, comfortable working across all levels of the site.
Behavioural Competencies
- Strong interpersonal skills, approachable, engaging, and confident in coaching others.
- Proactive with a positive, solutions-focused attitude.
- Strong sense of urgency and ownership.
- Able to challenge unsafe behaviors in a professional, constructive manner.
- Continuous improvement mindset, always looking for ways to raise standards.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Demonstrates Cabot values and contributes positively to site culture.
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.
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