Quality Manager

Color & Additives – US &Canada | Berea, OH

At Avient, our people power our performance. As a Quality Manager , you will work on-site managing the plant quality system and product testing. This role may include supervising Quality Technicians. A Successful Quality Manager will work closely with their team to ensure each product leaving the plant meets the highest standard aligned with Avient's commitment to our clients and community.

What You'll Do

Ensure manufacturing processes are in control and that all products produced at the facility meet the end-use customer's requirements

Monitor and control process conditions to maintain product consistency and meet specified requirements

Ensure that product and process changes are made only according to the sequence of activities specified in the MSA/CSA process

Oversee the testing in accordance with Avient Lab Performance Policy and ensure that all product grading is accomplished in a timely and accurate manner

Represent the Beara, OH plant and Avient in all aspects of professional dealings with customers, the technology community, and the commercial groups

Resolve and communicate on customer complaints, and handle technical and quality questions from internal and external sources

Coordinate investigations and corrective action for plant-related customer complaints

Assess training needs and provide training to lab/production employees

Other duties as assigned

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 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 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.

Why Avient

Visible impact across multiple sites and businesses

Strong partnership with business and enterprise leadership

Opportunity to lead change

Growth-focused culture that values innovation, collaboration, and accountability

What You Bring

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

5+ years' experience in Manufacturing/ Leadership

Experince leading problem-solving sessions or working independently to complete investigations

Quality System Management with ISO experience; GMP/FDA (preferred)

Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement experience (preferred)

Software skills: Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, SAP

Demonstrated success with critical communications – internal and external customers to gain alignment and progress toward goals

Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions to resolve critical issues

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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. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

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.

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. 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 .