Color Designer
DESCRIPTION:
About Avient:
Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
· Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™, enables unmatched levels of performance and protection for end-use applications, including ballistic personal protection, marine and sustainable infrastructure and outdoor sports
· Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
· Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
· Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
Avient employs approximately 10,000 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. For more information, visit www.avient.com
WHY AVIENT:
At Avient, we strive for a culture of trust and engagement. Our associates are leading company initiatives such as Lead by Women, HYPE and Pride to advance diversity in professional and personal development. We also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways. With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, casual dress days, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.
At Avient, we believe diversity of 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.
Job Title: Color Designer
Job Location: Plot No. F-27, MIDC, Ranjangaon, Taluka- Shirur, Pune, India, 412220.
Job Summary:
Ensures that color samples are developed in accordance with customer specifications at the lowest possible cost, while meeting company standards for quality and performance. This position operates with a high degree of autonomy and requires little to no day-to-day direction.
Essential Functions:
- Develops new formulas for color samples which meet customer business and product needs.
- Utilizes automated systems and technology (SAP, PC, Color Computer, etc.) to develop, diagnose and/or improve processes and resolve customer issues.
- Completes formulations of solid and/or liquid color concentrates in a timely, cost efficient, and effective manner.
- Records and communicates formulations in a clear and unambiguous manner, noting any special features or requirements.
- Performs required Quality Control checks on all color matches prior to the shipment of samples.
- Develops and maintains a safe working environment and good housekeeping conditions.
- Ensures that all SAP paperwork is completed properly and accurately.
- Observes applicable Safety, Health, and Environmental rules and guidelines. Uses appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Attends and participates in training opportunities and seminars relevant to this position.
- Other duties as assigned
Avient Corporation is a drug free workplace. 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.
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QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience:
- B.Sc. / M.Sc. CIPET diploma. 5 years of color development experience is must.
Additional Qualifications:
· Strong problem solving skills.
· Strong Project Management skills.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
· A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
Competencies:
Each position at Avient focuses on eight Core Competencies as a Leader of Self. Additionally, management positions focus on Leadership Competencies as a Leader of Others and/or a Leader of the Business. These competencies are designed to drive behavior that will ultimately help our associates excel at their current roles, while supporting individual and career development.
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. While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects tools or controls; talk and/or hear. Occasionally required to sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus and the ability to differentiate color.
Work Environment:
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this job. Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. Work is inside and the typical noise level is loud. Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
EH&S Requirements:
Avient integrates EH&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EH&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EH&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EH&S a priority within the organization.
· Security includes physical security and cyber security.
· Typical work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate.