Manufacturing Process Manager

Avient Corporation
United States, Ohio, Avon Lake
33587 Walker Road (Show on map)
Mar 26, 2025
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 Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&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. Who We Are 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 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. 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. 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.