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Production Supervisor: 3rd shift

Avient Corporation
United States, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem
2513 Highland Ave (Show on map)
Mar 28, 2025

Job Summary

Position encompasses the staffing, supervision, direction, training and evaluation of an assigned production team. Directs and controls multiple production operations.

Essential Functions

3rd Shift Production Supervisor (10:30pm to 7:30am Sunday PM to Friday AM)

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Plant and or Manufacturing Manager the production supervisor position encompasses the staffing, supervision, direction, training and evaluation of an assigned production team/shift. Directs and controls multiple production operations within the plant.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:



  • Follows and complies with all safety, work rules and regulations. Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
  • Ensures the safety of all associates in the manufacturing area.
  • Assists in the enforcement of company rules and policies and in completing necessary paperwork.
  • Ensures that all environmental issues are dealt with appropriately and in coordination with environmental resources within the company.
  • Records all necessary consumption, line events and production information into SAP.
  • Ensures that all associates are treated with respect and in a way that supports PolyOne values.
  • Develops and maintains competent associates who deliver continuous improvement results.
  • Ensure all associates on the shift follow all Avient policies and procedures
  • Assists in training all new employees on the required ISO Standard Procedures. Maintains training to comply with latest revision of Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Assures that all assigned associates have the training, tools, and equipment to complete and perform their responsibilities.
  • Promotes a team environment, supports the team, and works alongside the team.
  • Maintains open lines of communication with Plant Supply Chain, Quality/Lab, Maintenance, and Warehouse support group. Enters Limble requests when required to have malfunctioning equipment repaired.
  • Ensures that product loss and scrap production are kept to a minimum and documented accurately.
  • Coordinates with other shifts to provide seamless shift turnover and manpower coverage.
  • Fills in for workers when needed and covers other Supervisors as needed.
  • Other duties as assigned.



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 - Work on a Team
  • Personal Skills - Organizational Skills
  • 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
  • Cross Functional - Leadership Experience
  • Manufacturing - Manufacturing Operations
  • Cross Functional - Managing Direct Reports
  • Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry
  • Manufacturing - Safety Procedures



Physical Demands



  • While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
  • The associate is frequently required to walk.
  • The associate is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear.
  • The associate is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.
  • Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the associate is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals and fumes or airborne particles.
  • The noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud.
  • Respirator testing required



Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&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.



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.

At Avient, 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.

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