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 companys 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 strategies that reduce risk, optimize cost, shorten lead times and enhance availability. **Intellectual Property (IP) Protection & Know-How Management** - Identify, formalize, and protect critical company know-how and proprietary discipline engineering practices. - Define what engineering content and expertise must remain internal. - Establish safeguards to prevent IP leakage, especially when working with external partners. - Ensure structured capture, documentation, and reuse of technical knowledge across projects and operations. **Project Assurance & Execution Support** - Provide independent technical oversight and assurance across capital projects. - Support project teams in resolving complex technical challenges. - Ensure engineering consistency and quality from early concept through commissioning. - Participate in key project decision meetings and technical risk assessments **Operational Asset Support & Feedback Loop** - Provide discipline engineering support to operating assets when required. - Support troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and debottlenecking initiatives. - Capture lessons learned from operations and integrate them into standards and design practices. - Ensure operational experience continuously improves future project execution **Risk Management, Compliance & Control** - Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements. - Identify, assess, and mitigate technical and engineering-related risks, including IP-related risks. - Govern deviations, waivers, and technical exceptions with a structured and transparent approach. **Continuous Improvement, Innovation & Digitalization** - Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tools, and ways of working always ensuring to stay ahead vs best practices in engineering efficiencies and project costs. - Promote innovation while ensuring ownership and protection of developed solutions. - Advance digital engineering and data-driven decision-making, ensuring proper data governance and protection. **Travel Requirements** - This is a high-travel role (typically 30-50%). - Regular presence at project sites, engineering hubs, and contractor locations is required. - Travel is a fundamental requirement to ensure alignment, performance, and issue resolution. **What You Will Bring To Cabot:** - Strong knowledge of discipline engineering (piping, electrical, instruments, civil, structural, architectural) principles and practices. - Financial management skills including the ability to develop and monitor budgets, expenses, etc. - Deep understanding of multiple engineering disciplines and their integration and correlation with other parts of project execution. - Ability to challenge, validate, and guide complex technical decisions from different disciplines. - Strong capability to establish and enforce discipline engineering standards and governance frameworks. - Ability to define clear expectations and hold discipline leads accountable. - Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams. - Ability to drive design-to-cost, standardization, and optimization strategies. - Ensures critical knowledge is retained, structured, and leveraged as a competitive advantage - Promote innovation, digitalization, and continuous improvement in engineering practice. - Strong English language written and oral skills. **Education/Experience** - Bachelors degree in engineering; advanced degree in engineering is a plus. - 15 or more of progressive experience in discipline engineering and/or engineering management including a combination of capital project execution, discipline engineering leadership and support to operating industrial assets. - Proven experience in large capital projects within a global environment and/or, - Demonstrated leadership of multi discipline engineering teams; management of teams geographically dispersed is a plus. - Proven and strong background in engineering design leadership, engineering standards, and discipline engineering technical governance. - Proven understanding and application of codes, standards, and regulatory requirements across regions. - Strong track record in selecting, managing, and governing engineering service providers at a regional and global level. - Experienced and strong track record in driving cost optimization, value engineering, and design-to-cost initiatives. - Demonstrated ability to challenge overdesign and improve engineering efficiency. - Familiarity with standardization, modularization, global sourcing and replication strategies. - Experience in navigating complex stakeholder environments across regions and functions. - Demonstrated skills in driving change across a global engineering organization (standards, ways of working, mindset)