**ABOUT AVIENT**:
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:
- 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
**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 as 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.
**Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EH&S) Requirements**:
- Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.
- Security includes physical security and cyber security.
**General Summary**:
Position is responsible for a number of related activities that impact the day
- to-day functions of the plant manufacturing operations. Position manages the inventory and supply of raw materials to ensure materials are available when needed; coordinates and oversees material cycle counting and inventory accuracy. Position is responsible for scheduling production lines.
**Essential duties and Responsibilities**:
- Working with corporate planning, schedules plant production runs to optimize available resources and meet customer delivery needs.
- Communicates needed schedule changes with manufacturing in a timely manner.
- Tracks, reports, and manages plant schedule, raw material deliveries, etc. to assure maximum shipping performance to meet or exceed on time shipping goals.
- Oversees and ensures completion of required material cycle counts to ensure data integrity and accuracy of inventory levels as reported in SAP.
- Makes appropriate adjustments to SAP inventory data in a timely manner.
- Ensures the availability of raw materials and other manufacturing supplies needed to meet manufacturing production schedules.
- Ensures needed raw materials are ordered and delivered on time to meet manufacturing needs.
- Provides backup support for plant non-production hardware and software systems.
- Performs SAP system transactions to support for scheduling, shipping, QC, raw material ordering/movements, TECO (closing orders), etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
**Scope**
Manufacturing Plant.
**Competencies**:
Personal Skills - Stress Management
Personal Skills - Reading/Comprehension
Personal Skills - Self Motivated
Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
Software Skills - Microsoft Outlook
Software Skills - Microsoft Word
Software Skills - Microsoft Excel
Personal Skills - Ability to Multitask
Personal Skills - Work Independently
Software Skills - SAP
Personal Skills - Work on a Team
Personal Skills - Organizational Skllls
Leader of Self - Instills Trust
Leader of Self - Action Oriented
Leader of Self - Collaborates
Leader of Self - Customer Focus
Leader of Self - Situational Adaptability
Leader of Self - Being Resilient
Leader of Self - Demonstrates Self-Awareness
Leader of Self - Communicates Effectively
**Education and experience**
High School Diploma or GED
Supply Chain - Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain - Inventory Control
Manufacturing - Manufacturing Operations
Cross Functional - Problem Solving Techniques
Supply Chain - Scheduling
Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing - Safety Procedures
**Physical/Environ. Demands**
Requires standing and sitting for prolonged periods of time, talking and listening. Must be able to walk and use hands. Typically work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate. May occasionally be required to enter the manufacturing area and be exposed to dust, noise, hot humid conditions. May be required to climb stairs. Must be able to use persona