Maintenance Manager

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 than what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!

Your Role at Cabot

Our Dubai manufacturing facility has been part of Cabot’s operations since 2009 and manufactures masterbatch and compounds for the plastics industry.

As Maintenance Manager, you will lead the site maintenance function, ensuring maintenance projects and activities are delivered safely, on schedule and within budget. You will play a key role in maximizing plant availability and production capacity, improving operational efficiency and optimizing maintenance costs.

You will lead and develop the Maintenance team to ensure safe and cost-effective asset utilization, supported by value-adding investments, while maintaining compliance with Cabot policies and applicable safety and environmental regulations.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Develop and maintain a program for site improvements, identifying opportunities to introduce new technologies and improve plant performance.
• Lead the execution of capital expenditure and maintenance plans, ensuring work is completed safely, on time, within budget and to a high standard in line with project and operational objectives.
• Develop and manage the site's work order system and preventive and predictive maintenance programs. Monitor and analyze equipment performance to identify opportunities to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Ensure the quality of purchased spare parts and maintenance services. Manage supplier and contractor performance, carry out periodic vendor assessments and ensure contractors comply with Cabot safety requirements and site procedures.
• Accountable for the planning, management and control of site maintenance and capital budgets, including budget preparation, expenditure monitoring and forecasting. Drive cost optimization and ensure spending remains within approved financial targets.
• Maximize plant availability and reliability through established reliability principles and effective asset management, while ensuring appropriate staffing and maintenance resources are in place.
• Lead, coach and develop the Maintenance team through Performance-Based Management, ensuring clear expectations, strong performance and effective collaboration with matrix functions.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• Strong mechanical aptitude and practical experience in industrial maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
• A solid understanding of safe working practices, including confined space entry, lockout/tagout (LOTO) and hot-work permitting.
• Strong expertise in rotating equipment design, maintenance and repair.
• In-depth understanding of equipment lubrication and reliability practices.
• Familiarity with relevant ASME codes, engineering standards and specifications.
• Proven ability to develop and manage maintenance budgets and expenditure.
• Experience with reliability methodologies, including Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
• Good awareness of environmental requirements and responsibilities within an industrial environment.
• A sound understanding of Process Safety Management.
• Strong leadership and people-management capabilities, with the ability to coach, develop and motivate a maintenance team.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's/University degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of Maintenance or Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment, including at least 3 years of supervisory or people-management experience.

How We’ll Support Your Success

• The pay range for this role is from AED 162,100 to AED 170,000. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skill, qualifications, experience and location.
• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment - We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. - We offer a competitive package of benefits.
• Feedback - We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
• Support - You are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

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.