UD Inspector (UD) - Rotating Shifts

About Us

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it’s powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you’re a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you’ll find your place at Avient. Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all work is conducted in a safe and effective manner and all applicable procedures and policies are followed.
• Maintain or enhance safety awareness programs and related documentation.
• Support and lead the Avient Protective Materials Safety Committee.
• Take action to correct unsafe acts, systems, and procedures.
• Abide by Avient Protective Materials procedures/policies regarding security, including employee security agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and control of intellectual property.
• Set up, operate, adjust, and clean the inspection equipment required to inspect and pack finished product according to work instructions and standard operating procedures.
• Operate equipment in a safe and efficient manner while maintaining quality product.
• Take samples and determine properties of the produced finished products.
• Prepare samples for offline quality checks.
• Supply and maintain inventory of components/supplies as needed.
• Inspect and pack finished product.
• Ensure all product documentation is accurate and complete.
• Responsible for compliance with relevant laws, regulatory requirements, recipes, SOPs, and other related documentation and activities.
• Ensure company guidelines related to quality, safety, housekeeping, and cost effectiveness are met.
• Enter data about components and finished products into the MES system.
• Maintain accurate production-related records.
• Move, measure, maintain inventory, and store raw and finished products.
• Receive, store, handle, and deliver raw materials and finished products as required or directed.
• Utilize standard material handling equipment, including forklifts and overhead cranes.
• Use good judgment in making critical decisions on product quality, equipment functionality, safety, and other related activities.
• Identify problems related to equipment, work orders, log books, set-ups, and recommend solutions.
• Make suggestions regarding product quality, safety precautions, and work improvements.
• Inform Lead of any problems that may impair the quality of the product, packaging components, work efficiency, and/or safety.
• Maintain annual training requirements on hazardous waste.
• Use time wisely to complete other tasks when no product is available for inspection, including assisting on another inspection station, housekeeping, and training.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Two-year technical degree or high school diploma and at least 1 year of experience in a manufacturing or military technical environment.
• Knowledge of appropriate safety procedures.
• Knowledge of changeovers, cleaning, set-up, and work instructions.
• Ability to perform mathematical computations and problem-solving.
• Organizational, scheduling, and follow-up skills.
• Creativity and initiative.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to operate forklift and overhead cranes.
• Mechanical skills and knowledge, including equipment assembly.
• Ability to identify problems and utilize good decision-making skills to resolve.
• Ability to maintain accurate records.
• Ability to constantly produce at established production rates.
• Attention to detail, alertness, and skill in detecting defects and identifying machine or process problems.
• Ability to follow directions.
• Ability to read gauges, dials, meters, and set controllers; coordinate hand-arm manipulation.

Physical Demands

• 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.
• Must be able to walk and use hands.
• Occasionally requires bending, stooping, climbing ladders, and stairs.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally handle 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities may require close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work is typically in a manufacturing environment where the noise level is loud.
• Requires the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing protection, hard hat, and respiratory protection.
• 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.
• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions; may be exposed to extreme heat and humidity.