What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Operator position at PolyOne?
Job Summary
As a Production Operator at Avient, you'll set up and operate equipment to blend, mix, or transport chemicals that make up our customer products, ensuring high quality and cost efficiency. You'll also be responsible for machine maintenance, quality control, data recording, and supporting the company's vision and principles while adhering to safety and regulatory rules.
At Avient, we're a global team creating materials that make a real difference in people's lives. From the world's strongest fiber used in personal protective equipment to recycling innovations and eco-friendly transportation solutions, our work spans a vast array of applications that help build a better future, all while giving back to the communities where we live and work.
What We Offer:
Competitive compensation including an annual bonus plan: Wages start at $19.00-$22.00 per hour
Medical benefits that begin day 1 - no waiting period
Paid time off: Two weeks of vacation in addition to sick time, paid holidays, floating holidays, community service/volunteer days
401K with company match - 100% vested
High regard for safety. Avient is 3x safer than the industry average
Essential Functions:
Requirements:
High School diploma, General Education Diploma (GED) or equivalent training & experience
Work experience in an industrial operations environment preferred
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, or procedure manuals
Must have mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Must have the ability to use conversions, work with different units such as weight, volume, density, distance, etc.
About Us:
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:
As a Production Operator at Avient, you'll set up and operate equipment to blend, mix, or transport chemicals that make up our customer products, ensuring high quality and cost efficiency. You'll also be responsible for machine maintenance, quality control, data recording, and supporting the company's vision and principles while adhering to safety and regulatory rules.
At Avient, we're a global team creating materials that make a real difference in people's lives. From the world's strongest fiber used in personal protective equipment to recycling innovations and eco-friendly transportation solutions, our work spans a vast array of applications that help build a better future, all while giving back to the communities where we live and work.
What We Offer:
Competitive compensation including an annual bonus plan: Wages start at $19.00-$22.00 per hour
Medical benefits that begin day 1 - no waiting period
Paid time off: Two weeks of vacation in addition to sick time, paid holidays, floating holidays, community service/volunteer days
401K with company match - 100% vested
High regard for safety. Avient is 3x safer than the industry average
Essential Functions:
- Sets up, starts and runs all machinery
- Weighs ingredients to meet recipe specification and inserts into machinery, or ensures the correct ingredients are delivered to the work area and inserts pre-blended materials into machinery
- Monitors production and equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation. Troubleshoots equipment and processing issues
- Operates machinery to mix, extrude/discharge or handle materials
- May take samples of materials to lab for evaluation and instructions on any batch adjustments if needed
- Performs all required machine cleaning
- Documents work completed as required including logs, data reports, procedures, etc
Requirements:
High School diploma, General Education Diploma (GED) or equivalent training & experience
Work experience in an industrial operations environment preferred
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, or procedure manuals
Must have mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Must have the ability to use conversions, work with different units such as weight, volume, density, distance, etc.
About Us:
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 fiberTM, 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
Salary : $19 - $22
