Production Supervisor, Fiber Operations

Knowledge and Educational Level

• High school diploma (Required) with at least 3-5 years of experience working in a manufacturing, production, or equivalent military technical experiences / training.
• Bachelor’s degree (Preferred)  
• Working knowledge and/or routine use of the business processes and platforms such as:
  • Microsoft Office Suite and related Digital Platforms
  • Manufex, Operational Excellence and Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP)
  • SAP
  • Work permitting and work permit software
  • SHE requirements and practices
  • Relevant SHE assessments and investigation practices
  • Management of change and continuous improvement methodologies

Required Level of Experiences

• Experience leading a team and developing team members based on team member skill sets, desires for growth and business needs.
• Familiarity with implementing, modeling, following and enforcing safety, health and environment procedures and behaviors.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with support groups and all levels of the organization.
• Strategic planning and organizational skills for short, medium and long term tasks and actions such as planning and ensuring the resources required to execute the production schedule
• Problem solving abilities to be able to quickly assess production issues and establish the best course of action
• Analytical skills to be able to spot issues/deficiencies of varying complexity within the manufacturing process quickly and take appropriate and timely action to rectify.
• Ability to make informed and data driven decisions quickly, at times under pressure
• Effective at time management to complete urgent, short, medium and long term tasks and actions
• Effective communication skills to disseminate information related to site and area goals, expectations, and other pertinent information to ensure understanding by team members    
• Ability to compile, analyze, interpret, and update business and production reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• Ability to lead, support, drive and effectively communicate change management
• Ability to coach, develop, empower, and hold team members accountable when appropriate
• Comfortable working in a manufacturing environment and understanding of machine controls and instrumentation
• Broad knowledge of production planning processes

Physical Demands 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and
• reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 75 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc.
• 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 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.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock.  

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. 

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.

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