Maintenance Specialist/Engineer

Avient•Greenville, NC

12h

About The Position

The Maintenance Engineer, under limited supervision, assists the Maintenance Manager & Reliability Engineering in providing maintenance support and project management services for Avient Protective Materials. Works within a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to analyze equipment performance, spare parts requirements and looking for areas of improvement to ensure equipment and operational function is reliable. The Maintenance Engineer will operate within the organizational structure to support the Maintenance group & Reliability Engineering. The person in this role will interact will the project & process engineers, production staff, and maintenance staff. Utilizing equipment CMMS & Root Cause Analysis data, role will initiate reliable solutions to include performing change leader duties and identifying spare requirements. Recommend and adjust spare parts inventory requirements as required due to plant expansion, changes in turnaround time for repairs, and equipment reliability from “as delivered” through “as maintained” to “as used”. 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, [email protected].

Responsibilities

Show behavior in line with the SHE and Security risks and agreed controls, including being compliant to Avient requirements, rules, and procedures.
Assures that all employees follow established occupational safety rules, housekeeping, Hazmat regulations, JSAs and SOPs.
Address and report person(s) behaving in a SHE and Security irresponsible manner and document observed risks.
Abides by Avient Protective Materials procedures/policies regarding security, inclusive of: employee security agreements; use of non-disclosure agreements with outside parties; control of Avient Protective Materials intellectual property limited to a “need to know” only basis; no unauthorized use of cell phones, cameras, computers or APM property; reporting security threats and incidents; proper control of APM property and keys.
Lead root cause analysis on equipment failures leading to lost machine availability or excessive cost.
Be able to engineer solutions to repetitive equipment failure, high-cost maintenance activities, or incidents of high frequency part replacements.
Maintains predictive equipment programs to include report review and creation of corrective action(s).
Monitors and analyze CMMS data to identify repetitive problems.
Assist the Reliability Engineer in implementing the Reliability program(s) for Avient Protective Materials.
Lead Planned Preventive Maintenance program to ensure preventive maintenance plans are effective and cost effective for equipment reliability and optimization.
Comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements, recipes, SOP’s, and other related documents and activities.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Maintain and improve reliability reporting for Avient Protective Materials.