Quality Associate: 1st Shift

Avient Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Avient Corporation in Kentucky is seeking a quality/lab technician to test product batches and incoming materials, adjust processes as needed, and ensure compliance with customer specifications.

You will record results in SAP, maintain COAs, verify gauges and equipment, and support investigations and safety procedures in a manufacturing plant.

Qualifications

• Performs standard tests on assigned product line production batches and some incoming raw materials.
• Records test results in SAP and maintains COA files for suppliers.
• Completes required paperwork and ensures gauges and test equipment are verified.

Responsibilities

• Tests product batches and some incoming raw materials to meet specifications.
• Provides technical support to production for batch-related issues.
• Maintains COA documentation and reference files.
• Verifies gauges and test equipment calibration and status.
• Contributes to investigations and corrective actions as needed.
• Follows safety rules and maintains workplace housekeeping.
• Processes and sends documentation to customers (e.g., COA).

Skills

Quality testing

Laboratory procedures

SAP

Documentation

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

SAP

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

• Performs standard tests on assigned product line production batchesand on some incoming raw materials as needed, ensuring the meeting of Avient and the customer’s specifications.
• Acts as a technical resource to production addressing issues related to production batches.
• Recommends to production and may develop adjustments to batches to meet specifications.
• Records test results in SAP. Maintains reference files.
• Completes and maintain all required paperwork, records, documents, etc.
• Ensures all gauges and test equipment are verified.
• May participate in investigations of complaints and corrective actions as needed.
• Follows and complies with all safety and work rules and regulations. Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• Completes and sends documentation to customers (i.e. COA).
• Other duties as assigned.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is 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. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally handle up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include 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 and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. Work is inside and the typical noise level
fluctuates from moderate to loud. Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionallyexposed to vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock.

Scope

Manufacturing Plant.

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 40001314
• Job Category Quality/Lab
• Posting Date 08/20/2026, 02:52 PM
• Degree Level High School Graduate
• Job Schedule Full time