Maintenance Technician

QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Education and Experience

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience

• Technical School degree or experience equivalency

• Five (5) or more years of experience in process improvement and problem solving techniques.

• Five (5) or more years of experience in PLC troubleshooting and repair.

• Five (5) or more years of experience in mechanical, electrical, and industrial operations.
  
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Self-motivated with strong organization skills and ability to multi-task.

• Time management skills, quantitative and statistical skills

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products

• Must be able to read/comprehend written and oral instructions in English; read and comprehend safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals and product recipes/material identifications. 

• Must have mathematical skill to add, subtract, multiply and divide and the ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.

• Must be able to effectively communicate one-on-one and in small group situations.

• Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a wide variety of small hand tools, scales, hand trucks, fork lift, utility knife, and mixer/secondary machinery and computer equipment.

• Demonstrate ability to rapidly learn the operation and set up of industrial machinery per operating procedures while following all training and plant procedures.

Salary $30.00 per hour

Physical/Environ. Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; talk and/or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 55 pounds and occasionally handle up to 250 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• 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.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate with the exception of high noise areas.
• Proper personal safety equipment needs to be used while performing this job and that equipment is dictated by the plant safety guidelines.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, dust, fumes, airborne particles, chemical dust, and risk of electric shock, vibration, non-hazardous chemical agents and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts.

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.

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.