Quality Technician - 2nd Shift

Avient; McHenry (IL); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative organization is seeking a Quality Operator to ensure product compliance with customer specifications and quality standards. In this role, you will perform essential tests on production batches and incoming raw materials, acting as a technical resource to resolve production issues. Your contributions will help maintain high-quality standards and ensure that all products meet stringent requirements. Join a company that values sustainability and innovation, where you can grow your skills and make a meaningful impact in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• 1 year of related manufacturing lab/quality experience.
• Ability to read and comprehend technical lab procedure manuals.

Responsibilities

• Perform standard tests on production batches to meet specifications.
• Record test results and maintain reference files.

Skills

Mathematical Skills

Communication Skills

Manual Dexterity

Color Matching

Education

US High School Diploma

GED Equivalency

Tools

SAP

Standard Lab Equipment

Job description

Job Summary
The Quality Operator 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.

Essential Functions
• Performs standard tests on assigned product line production batches and 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.

Education and Experience
US High School diploma, GED equivalency or equivalent experience
1 year of related manufacturing lab/quality experience or 1 year of Avient production experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Must be able to read/comprehend written and oral instructions in English; read and comprehend safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, technical lab procedure manuals and product recipes/material identifications.
• Must be able to write legibly to keep records and to correspond.
• Must have strong mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide and the ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Must be able to effectively communicate one-on-one and in small group situations.
• Requires matching proficiency, including the ability to color match.
• Must have ability to reason and address problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must have manual dexterity sufficient to use a wide variety of standard lab equipment including a scale, ovens, viscometers and the ability to operate standard office equipment such as a computer, a calculator, telephone, fax, and photocopier.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly (8 to 12hrs per shift) required to:

• Stand, walk, or sit
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear
• Use hands to finger
• Handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs
• Specific vision abilities required include:
  • Close vision
  • Distance vision
  • Color vision
  • Peripheral vision
  • Depth perception
  • Ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

The employee is occasionally exposed to:

• Moving mechanical parts
• Fumes or airborne particles
• Vibration
• Noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud noise

Employees are required to wear mandatory PPE (8 to 12hrs per shift) which include:

• Long sleeve uniform shirts
• Hearing protection
• Steel toe shoes/boots
• Safety glasses
• Specific gloves when performing specific tasks
• Face shield, if required by work area

Who We Are

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 fiber, 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 www.avient.com.

Why Avient
Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.

We believe diversity of 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 Corporation is a drug free workplace. 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.