Quality Technician

Job Description

Position tests product batches and will make adjustments, as necessary, to ensure compliance with customer specifications and quality standards. Tests incoming raw materials and maintains Certificates of Analysis (COA) from suppliers.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Follows and complies with all safety and work rules, and regulations.
• Completes EHS and other training, as assigned.
• Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• Performs standard tests on assigned production batches and incoming raw materials as needed to ensure the products and materials meet Avient's and customer's specifications.
• Acts as a technical resource to the production team, addressing issues with production batches.
• Recommends and develops adjustments to batches to meet product specifications.
• Records test results in SAP database and maintains reference files.
• Completes and maintains all required relevant documents.
• Ensures all gauges and test equipment are verified and within calibration.
• May participate in investigations of complaints and create corrective actions as needed.
• Completes and sends documentation to customers (i.e. COA)
• Other duties as assigned

Physical/Environ. Demands

Physical Demands

The typical work week is Monday through Friday with occasional overtime. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch and/or crawl; use hands to finger, handle and/or feel objects, tools, and/or controls; talk and/or hear. Occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 55 pounds and occasionally handle up to 250 pounds. Specific vision abilities may require close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses, safety shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate except for high noise areas. Proper personal safety equipment must be used while performing the duties of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to hot or cold temperatures, wet and/or humid conditions, dust, fumes, airborne particles, chemical dust, risk of electric shock, vibration, non-hazardous chemical agents, and outside weather conditions. Employees are regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes and/or airborne particles.

Scope

Manufacturing Plant.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required
• 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, required
• 1+ years of experience in a laboratory/quality assurance environment, required
• Previous quality assurance testing experience, strongly preferred
• Previous experience with testing of viscosity and color matching preferred but not required.
• Previous experience using SAP, preferred

Other Qualifications

• Demonstrated success using problem solving techniques
• Acute vision and color perception – must be able to pass color matching and vision test
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operation, and procedure manuals
• Must have mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Must have the ability to use conversions of fractions and decimals. Must have the ability to work with different units for weight, volume, density, distance, etc.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) with strong data entry skills.

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. 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, View email address on click.appcast.io.

Job Info

• Job Identification 40001163
• Job Category Quality/Lab
• Degree Level High School Graduate
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 8155 Cobb Center Dr NW, Kennesaw, GA, 30152, US (On-site)
• Shift 10 Hours/4 Days Per Week
• Relocation Eligible No
• Minimum Salary 20.80
• Maximum Salary 31.20
• Currency US Dollar
• Pay Type Per Hour