Manufacturing Manager
Manufacturing Manager
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About Us
Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed while enabling a sustainable world.
Innovation goes far beyond materials science; its powered by the passion creativity and diverse expertise of 9000 professionals worldwide. Whether youre a finance wizard a tech enthusiast an operational powerhouse an HR changemaker or a trailblazer in materials development youll find your place at Avient.
Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!
Job Summary
Position has direct responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of all production lines assigned. Position also has responsibility for prioritizing the work assignments for the maintenance associates and manufacturing process engineers assigned to their lines to effectively support manufacturing operations. The shift supervisor reports to this position. Position is responsible for fostering a team focused work environment to achieve plant and company goals and objectives and isalso responsible for participating in activities to enhance the growth and development of all manufacturing operations personnel. This includes safety environmental productivity quality maintenance lean six sigma events and financial performance.
Essential Functions
- Safety and Environmental performance: Communicates expectations; conducts audits investigates and documents all incidents; conducts safety meetings; authorizes work and signs permits; participates on the plant safety committee.
- Production: Determines requirements and assigns personnel to each line to assure efficient operation; monitors operations including run rates changeovers and line cleans; coordinates with maintenance lab and warehouse personnel to meet line production expectations; troubleshoot process issues and determine the appropriate course of action to resolve; participate in the development/revision of operating procedures; identify and participate in documentation of Management of Changes.
- Quality: Reviews finished goods laboratory test results; reviews in process test results; determines process running condition changes to be made; solicits input from tech support as needed; participates in onsite customer audits; participates in ISO audits; participates in customer trials/trial reviews; participates in complaint investigations.
- Staffing; Participates in plant staffing activities including interviewing and selection. Conducts performance reviews for direct reports and ensures performance reviews are conducted for all operations personnel; recommends wage increases and promotions; identifies and prioritizes personnel developmental needs; conducts disciplinary discussions; reviews staff assignments; develops and communicates work schedules for production lines and assigns staff as needed.
- Maintenance: Supports the Avient Reliability Program by coordinating shift maintenance activities and audits equipment checklists to verify proper monitoring by operations. Ensures work orders are written and entered into email for scheduling; schedules line downtime as required for proactive maintenance.
- Learns and uses all appropriate systems which may include SAP IQS LRM CCS CAID Charts Etime Ariba on Demand Microsoft Office applications.
- Financial: Must understand and manage financial performance from a cost to manufacture standpoint for lines assigned to them.
- LSS: Must drive Lean Six Sigma events to improve overall performance for assigned lines.
- Other projects/duties as assigned or needed. #LICB1
Education and Experience
- High School diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- At least 5 years in a leadership role in a manufacturing environment required
- Cross Functional Budget Management
- Cross Functional Leadership Experience
- Cross Functional Lean Six Sigma
- Cross Functional Managing Direct Reports
- Cross Functional Manufacturing Industry
- Manufacturing Safety Procedures
- Cross Functional Cost Management
- Manufacturing Manufacturing Operations
- Cross Functional Problem Solving Techniques
Avient Leadership Behaviors
We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self a leader of others or a leader of the business.
By playing to win acting customer centric driving innovation and profitable growth collaborating seamlessly across Avient and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avients strategic goals to meet our customer needs and to accomplish your career goals.
At Avient we believe a wide variety of thoughts ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring promotion development compensation or advancement are based solely on a persons qualifications abilities experience and performance.
Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of nondiscrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race sex sexual orientation gender identity age color religion national origin disability genetic information protected veterans status or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing
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Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
