Maintenance Manager

Avient Corporation; Berea (OH); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avient Corporation seeks an experienced maintenance leader in Berea, OH to plan, direct and coordinate plant support activities across maintenance, utilities, water treatment and engineering stores.

You will oversee annual plant and boiler shutdowns, manage the Reliability Program, and provide advisory support to plant engineering while driving safety, cost control and reliability improvements in a busy manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required, bachelor’s degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in a maintenance or technician role.
• At least 3 years in a leadership role (leading a team).
• At least 3 years relevant experience in capital project management.
• Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops programs, procedures and practices to encourage employees to work safety in an environmentally responsible manner.
• Participates in safety, health, and environmental continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepares budgets and monitors expenses.
• Manages the Avient Reliability Program.
• Oversees the daily operation of the utilities systems for the site.
• Provides advisory support to the plant-engineering group.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

High school diploma

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Position plans, directs and coordinates the activities of employees engaged in chemical production plant support in the functions of central maintenance, utilities supply (steam, electricity, water, air, nitrogen and others), treatment of incoming water, pretreatment of waste waters, and engineering stores.

Responsibilities

• Develops programs, procedures and practices to encourage employees to work safety in an environmentally responsible manner to achieve quality results at acceptable cost levels.
• Participates in safety, health, and environmental continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepares budgets and monitors expenses.
• Manages ColorMatrix’s custom dosing equipment area.
• Plans, coordinates and oversees annual plant and boiler shutdown activities.
• Provides technical support for maintenance functions for central maintenance.
• Manages the Avient Reliability Program.
• Provides advisory support to the plant-engineering group.
• Maintains plant engineering standards and compliance.
• Drives the cultural changes necessary for the organization.
• Resolves personnel conflicts and ensures customer satisfaction.
• Develops systems and uses applicable tools to improve understanding of maintenance costs and utility measures relative to overall goals of reliability.
• Oversees the daily operation of the utilities systems for the site.
• Inspects and troubleshoots equipment as needed, including steam boiler internals.
• Manages engineering stores functions to properly support plant needs, including maintenance material and contracting needs, process material needs, raw material purchasing, and physical inventory.
• Other projects/duties as assigned.

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 moveup to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities may require close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. Work is inside and the typical noise level is loud. Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is frequently exposed to vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or
caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock.

Scope

Manufacturing Plant.

Other

Reports to: Director Manufacturing or Plant Manager.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• High school diploma required, bachelor’s degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in a maintenance or technician role.
• At least 3 years in a leadership role (leading a team).
• At least 3 years relevant experience in capital project management.
• Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) preferred.

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, [e-mail] .

Job Info

• Job Identification 40001460
• Job Category Maintenance
• Posting Date 10/02/2026, 04:43 PM
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 680 N Rocky River Dr, Berea, OH, 44017, US (On-site)