Supervisor, Production
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:
Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well as positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.
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.
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.
General Summary:
Position encompasses the staffing, supervision, direction, training and evaluation of an assigned production team. Directs and controls multiple production operations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Safely insures all phases of manufacturing are being performed efficiently and effectively.
- Identifies and solves any issues or problems with equipment or personnel.
- Recommends and drives formula improvements, equipment and engineering revisions.
- Maintains open lines of communication with Supply Chain Planning, Quality/Lab, Maintenance and Warehouse support groups to ensure production schedules are met.
- Coordinates publishing of process condition set up sheets; updating these conditions and maintaining the process conditions database.
- Produces all shop floor paperwork as required for process order production.
- Coordinates and administers all aspects of training for new hires as well as long term associates.
- Complies with and enforces all company policies and procedures.
- Ensures consistent and maximum throughout while maintaining acceptable quality control.
- Ensures efficient use of staffing by effective planning of vacation schedules and arranging the required coverage when necessary.
- Ensures that product loss and scrap production are kept to a minimum.
- Administers performance appraisals of production associates. Establishes, communicates and provides timely feedback to assigned workforce on objectives, goals and expectations.
- Ensures complete and accurate information is entered into SAP in a timely manner.
- Ensures production supply inventories are maintained and notifies the appropriate purchasing associates when items need to be restocked.
- Reviews and corrects information in E-Time for time-keeping of production associates’ hours.
- Ensures that attendance issues are reported and handled in accordance with the attendance policy.
- Coordinates with other Production Supervisors to provide seamless shift turnover and appropriate staffing.
- Ensures plant production area housekeeping is maintained in “Tour Ready” conditions at all times in accordance with housekeeping guidelines.
- Other projects/duties as assigned.
Scope:
Manufacturing Plant.
Other:
Typically reports to Manufacturing Manager, Plant Manager or equivalent.
Competencies:
Personal Skills - Stress Management
Personal Skills - Reading/Comprehension
Personal Skills - Self Motivated
Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
Software Skills - Microsoft Outlook
Software Skills - Microsoft Word
Software Skills - Microsoft Excel
Personal Skills - Work on a Team
Personal Skills - Organizational Skills
Leader of Self - Instills Trust
Leader of Self - Action Oriented
Leader of Self - Collaborates
Leader of Self - Customer Focus
Leader of Self - Situational Adaptability
Leader of Self - Being Resilient
Leader of Self - Demonstrates Self-Awareness
Leader of Self - Communicates Effectively
Education and Experience:
High School Diploma or GED
Cross Functional - Leadership Experience
Manufacturing - Manufacturing Operations
Cross Functional - Managing Direct Reports
Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing - Safety Procedures
Physical/Environment Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The associate is frequently required to walk. The associate is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear. The associate is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud.
Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EH&S) Requirements:
- Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.
- Security includes physical security and cyber security.
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.