Production Supervisor: 1st shift

About the role

The Manufacturing Plant seeks a Production Supervisor to lead and manage a production team. Reporting to the Plant and/or Manufacturing Manager, this role oversees multiple production operations, resolves issues, and maintains open communication with various support groups.

Responsibilities

• Safely ensures all phases of manufacturing are 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.
• Publishes process condition set up sheets; updates these conditions and maintains 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 throughput 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 timekeeping of production associates’ hours.
• Safeguards attendance issues are reported and handled in accordance with the attendance policy.
• Captures seamless shift turnover and appropriate staffing coordination with other Production Supervisors.
• Maintains plant production area housekeeping in “Tour Ready” conditions at all times in accordance with housekeeping guidelines.
• Coordinates with other Production Supervisors to provide seamless shift turnover and appropriate staffing.
• Coordinates with other Production Supervisors to provide seamless shift turnover and appropriate staffing.
• Other projects/duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or prior experience preferred.
• Prior supervisory experience managing others in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Able to read/comprehend written and oral instructions in English;
  • Read and comprehend safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals and product recipes/materials;
  • Communicate effectively verbally and in writing;
  • Mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide and apply these skills to weights, measures of volume, speed and distance;
  • Reason and address problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations;
  • Prior experience coaching employees and being able to have difficult conversations;
  • Able to effectively communicate in English one-on-one and in small group situations;
  • Computer literacy;

Physical/Environ. Demands

• Regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to walk.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear.
• 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.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals and fumes or airborne particles.
• Noisy environment ranging from normal office noise levels to loud.

About Avient

At Avient Corporation, we are dedicated to being an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. 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.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We believe that 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.

If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.