Career Opportunities with
Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. H e a d q u a r t e r s : 77 F r a n k l i n S t . , Boston 10, Mass.
^3|odfrey L. Cabot, Inc., celebrating its 75th anniversary during 1957, is internationally prominent in the petrochemical industry producing carbon blacks in the greatest volume and widest range of any individual manufacturer in the world. The Cabot Companies also produce other chemical raw materials and petroleum products essential to the manufacture of innumerable products in industries ranging from rubber, ink, paint, and varnish to paper, ceramics, and plastics. Although Boston, Mass., is the admini strative home office of the company, production facilities are centered in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, and extend to Florida, Massachusetts, New York, West Virginia, and as far as Canada, England, and France.
Cabot Products The major Cabot products include: Carbon Black (a fine fluffy carbon), Oil and Gas Production, Liquefied Petroleum Gases, CAB-O-SIL (a silicon dioxide), Pine Tars, Charcoal, Charcoal Briquets, Wollastonite (a calcium metasilicate), Well Drilling and Servicing Equipment, Oil Field Pumping Equipment, Steel Fabrication, and Plastics Chemicals.
A Career With Cabot " . . . A career with Cabot must be the kind of job that is worthy of the lifetime devoted to it." . . . Thomas D . Cabot, President. Behind the Cabot products, within the plants, research laboratories, sales and administrative offices are more than 2500 employees representing numerous skills and training. The environment they have created, resulting from a spirit of mutual confidence, cooperation, and understanding of personal interests, wall continue to be a major contributing factor to further growth of the company. Cabot careers combine security and opportunity—resulting from employment with a vigorous and expanding organization large enough to offer emplojTïtent stability, liberal health and welfare benefits and opportunities for advancement, yet small enough and or20
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ganized in such a manner to offer individual responsibilities with recognition of aptitude and performance. Professional growth and development is important t o the success of both the Company a n d its employees. Cabot employees are placed in positions for which they a r e best suited in order to utilize their talents to the fullest extent. These talents are further developed by eliminating in so far as possible undue work restrictions and limitations, encouraging attendance at professional associations and societies and technical seminars sponsored by the Company and presentation of papers and publications concerning their work. Scientists and engineers of ability and initiative contributing to the progress of the company are advanced into positions of greater responsibility in Research, Development, Sales, Technical Service, or Production depending on individual aptitude and preference.
Research And Development Research and Development Headquarters located on famed "Research Row" in Cambridge, Mass., and the Southwestern Laboratory in Pampa, Tex., are engaged in customer technical service, the study of the behavior of Cabot products in their varied applications, and new product research and development. Each laboratory is also equipped with Pilot Plant facilities where new processes are developed prior to operation on a commercial scale . The Cambridge laboratory conducts the major portion of t h e company's fundamental scientific research, the vigorous pursuit of which is the pacemaker of Cabot progress. Its location is within commuting access t o leading institutions offering opportunities for further study and exchange of ideas. Cabot's comprehensive Research and Development program offers career opportunities for Chemists, Chemical E n gineers, Rubber Technologists, Physicists, Ceramists, Ceramic Engineers, Geologists, Petroleum Engineers, M e chanical Engineers, and many other specialists for work in such areas as Pigments Application and Research, Rubber and Plastics Research, Physical Research, Organic Research, Applied
Research and Development, Ceramic Research and Development, Process Design, Technico-economics, Structural and Machine Design, Mechanical and Hydraulic Power Transmissions, Design and Development.
Sales And Technical Service Cabot Sales and Technical Service Representatives are technically trained specialists in one or more products or industries, such training obtained from previous experience or at Cabot plants and laboratories. They are thus better equipped to understand the products and represent the company.
Plant Operations The very nature of Cabot products and processes requires constant production supervision and management by Chemists, Chemical and Mechanical Engineers and other specialists to analyze process details, to increase yield and efficiency, to plan improvements and to maintain plant and equipment. Since most Cabot plants are concentrated in the Southwest there are more opportunities in plant operations in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma with occasional openings in Illinois, Florida, and New York.
Staff And Service Departments A t the home office in Boston, Mass., and throughout the Cabot industries there are staff and administrative opportunities in the fields of Accounting, Advertising, Export, Insurance, Law, Library Science, Market Research, Patent Law, Personnel, Public Relations, Pui chasing, Traffic, and many others.
Write For Information Technical graduates, at all degree levels, with or without pertinent experience are invited to submit applications or t o request detailed information concerning current opportunities in any phase of our operations. All applications and inquiries will be held in confidence. Please direct your communications to: Employee Relations Manager, Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., 77 Franklin St., Boston 10, Mass. (ADVERTISEMENT)
