Job Summary
The Production Supervisor role encompasses the staffing, supervision, direction, training and evaluation of an assigned production team. Directs and controls multiple production operations.

This is a 3rd shift Production Supervisor

Essential Functions
•    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.

Education and Experience
•    High School diploma required, Bachelor's degree preferred
•    Minimum 5 years of Manufacturing experience
•    Minimum 5 years managing direct reports in a leadership role
•    Lean Six Sigma certification a plus.

 
Additional Qualifications
•    Consistent high performer with demonstrated leadership capabilities.  Able to work in a team environment. Holds themselves and team members accountable for a high level of performance.  
•    Strong knowledge of EHS requirements for operations including lock out/tag out, fork lift safety, hot work and safe work permits for example.
•    Strong computer skills including Excel.
•    Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to acquire, assimilate, and analyze data from multiple systems and data sources using a variety of business intelligence and reporting tools. Ability to put structure and discipline around defined processes.
•    Experience in leading / conducting root cause investigations/analysis.
•    Detail oriented and able to manage to milestones and deadlines.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to communicate within a global matrix organization. 
•    Required to travel by car or plane up to 10% of the time.

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 and environmental 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. 
•    Requires standing and sitting for extended periods of time
•    Must be able to walk and use hands
•    Occasionally requires bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, & climbing ladders and stairs
•    While performing the duties of this job, will occasionally be exposed to moving mechanical parts, chemicals/fumes, and dust/ airborne particles
•    Requires the ability to get on and off a forklift regularly
•    May occasionally be required to lift, push or pull up to 50 pounds 
•    Typically work is in a manufacturing environment where noise level is loud and hearing protection is required.
•    Generally, requires the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing protection, hard hat, respiratory protection
•    Exposure to outside weather conditions is routine. 
•    May be exposed to working in extreme heat and humidity 

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 (Harnessing Young Professionals), Pride at Avient and Embrace 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 in hiring, promotion, development, compensation and advancement are based upon non-discriminatory factors such as, for example, 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.