Manufacturing Engineer

The Associate Process Engineer will play a vital role in our Hickory, NC plant, ensuring efficient and safe manufacturing operations. They will apply their engineering expertise to design, develop, and upgrade processes and equipment, striving for excellence and cost-effectiveness. This role requires a proactive approach to change management and a passion for raising the engineering team's skill level.

• Will be responsible for improving processes and equipment to drive uptime higher while reducing scrap in various production processes including winding, FRP, extrusion and coating.
• Will develop new processes for new products. This may be new designs of products, or using new materials for current designs, or utilizing new equipment. Must be able to pick appropriate tooling for the design and materials used, and modify tooling as required to increase performance.
• Evaluate and optimize processes and equipment to generate cost savings, and improve quality, efficiency and productivity. Will need to work closely with EH&S, QA, Maintenance, and outside vendors.
• Develop new processes, research emerging technologies, and execute characterization and optimization studies of current processes using design of experiments, root cause analysis, troubleshooting and decision making tools.
• Identifying and resolving equipment / material / training / process issues, and coordinating activities of maintenance, quality, production and other resources to execute cost effective solutions
• Provide subject matter expertise to other departments
• 24 / 7+ support of manufacturing lines
• Other duties as assigned.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in a manufacturing or process engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards and best practices in manufacturing.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in using engineering software and tools for design and optimization.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for collaborating with various teams.
• Proactive approach to change management and a passion for driving excellence.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and industry trends.
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel occasionally for site visits or training.

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!

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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.

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