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; it's powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you're a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you'll 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:
The Engineering Manager role at our Avon Lake, OH location as part of the plant leadership team, supports plant manufacturing while maintaining a strong focus on safety, continuous improvement and equipment performance and optimization. The manager provides direct supervision, training and evaluation of the site process engineers. Using engineering principles and acceptable industry standards, designs, develops and optimizes processes, methodologies, equipment, and facilities to meet ever-changing customer expectations.
Essential Functions:
* Provide ongoing information and assistance to the Avon Lake plant safety program regarding the safe operation of all equipment. This particularly applies to the company's LockOut-TagOut program and all related operational safety requirements and considerations.
* Responsibility for identifying and contracting with the best service providers on scopes of work that exceed the company's in-house capabilities.
* Responsible for improving processes and equipment to drive uptime and productivity across the site.
* Will develop new processes for new products. This may be new designs of products, or using new materials for current designs, or utilizing new equipment. Must be able to pick appropriate tooling for the design and materials used, and modify tooling as required to increase performance.
* Evaluate and optimize processes and equipment to generate cost savings, and improve quality, efficiency and productivity.
* Develop new processes, research emerging technologies, and execute characterization and optimization studies of current processes using design of experiments, root cause analysis, troubleshooting and decision making tools.
* Identifying and resolving equipment/material/training/process issues, and coordinating activities of maintenance, quality, production and other resources to execute cost effective solutions.
* Partners with Avient's Leadership Development Programs to build engineering talent.
* Provide subject matter expertise to other departments and technical mentorship.
* Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:
- use hands and fingers
- handle and/or feel and reach with hands and arms
- required to stand and walk required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk and hear
- occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 55 lbs
- specific vision abilities required include:
- close vision
- depth perception
- ability to adjust focus
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to:
- moving mechanical parts
- fumes or airborne particles
- noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud noise
- Employees are required to wear mandatory PPE which include:
- hearing protection when on production floor
- steel toe shoes/boots when on production floor
- uniforms
- specific gloves when performing specific tasks
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 Avient's 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 person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.
Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination 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 veteran's 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, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.
Avient Corporation
Mar 26, 2025