Your Role at Cabot

Cabot Reinforcement Materials, R&D Elastomers Team is looking for a Summer Intern to provide support for lab equipment characterization, process optimization, and test variation reduction. The candidate will conduct experiments on laboratory equipment used in the rubber industry with the goal of identifying best factors to reduce data variability. The project will support the lab’s goals to provide repeatable, reliable, accurate, and timely test results. This position offers a great opportunity for a college student to apply academic knowledge and gain industry experience designing DOEs, creating measurement systems analysis datasets, and analyzing data using statistics with JMP software. Due to the technical nature of the work involved, this position requires pursuit in chemistry, polymer science, materials science, engineering, data science, or statistics. The candidate must have basic hands-on lab training, or experience working in a university or industry labs.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Conduct literature and background research on methodologies, and provide initial technical assessment or assumptions of the project
• Define short-term research plan with goals, and utilize DOE tools to design experiments
• Execute lab experiment(s) to generate data, document observations, and results
• Understand and operate rubber laboratory equipment ranging from mixing, curing and testing equipment
• Analyze experimental design results, and report results in an organized format
• Create a presentation of your work

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• Currently enrolled in undergraduate program
• Strong focus on safety, completed basic chemical/chemistry lab safety training
• Hands-on university-level laboratory experience
• Experience writing formal laboratory reports and presentations
• Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or Materials Science with knowledge of statistics or data science
• Quick learner, problem solver, results driven mindset
• Self-motivated and passionately engaged in the project

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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.

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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.

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.