Site Manufacturing Director

The Site Manufacturing Director will lead the Avient Protective Materials Greenville (NC) and Mesa (AZ) sites ensuring high quality product is available for the marketplace. Control production operations while maintaining regulatory compliance. Continually improve work practices to improve asset utilization (OEE).

• Avient Protective Materials Values - is expected to lead by example by demonstrating the Avient Protective Materials Values. Must be able to develop and lead a high performing team in a highly supportive, yet challenging manner. Must demonstrate trust, support, and respect. Sets the scene for Avient Protective Materials Values and actively encourages and appreciates behaviors and thinking in line with Avient Protective Materials Values and discourages behaviors that do not align with Avient Protective Materials Values.
  
  Gives feedback, inside and outside of the team, both positively and in areas of improvement. Creates an environment to enable the team to take the freedom to do what it takes and ensure recognition that with freedom responsibility comes along.
• Manufacturing Excellence – Avient Protective Materials wants to be 'best in class' in every respect, including manufacturing. To excel in manufacturing, we need to optimize how we do things. Everyone within the organization has at least one role within Manufacturing Excellence. Roles and responsibilities are defined and assigned to those involved in the different Manufacturing Excellence Work Processes.
• Ensure all work is conducted in a safe and effective manner and all applicable procedures and policies are followed: “we do it safely or not at all”. Maintain or enhance safety awareness programs and related documentation. Support and lead the Avient Protective Materials safety efforts. Take action to correct unsafe acts, systems, and procedures. Comply with all job-related safety and other training requirements.
• 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.
• Direct all Fiber Solutions and Life Protection manufacturing teams, providing direction for long and short-term goals that support company objectives and strategies. Ensure operations are properly controlled and all regulatory compliance requirements are met by ensuring state of the art validation and change control processes are followed, meeting current Good Manufacturing guidelines, ensuring batch documentation is accurate, preventative maintenance and equipment calibrations are current, Standard Operating Procedures are accurate and current, and responding to all regulatory comments (ISO 9001:2000, ISO 13485:2003, OSHA, EPA, etc.,).
• Ensure the economic success of Avient Protective Materials operations by monitoring and making decisions that have positive impact on the financial results as reflected by sales/revenue, EBIT, cost of goods sold, delivery, and production efficiencies.
• Set up and provide direction for contract and capital projects to ensure Avient Protective Materials can deliver new products/capacity to our customers in accordance with business plans.
• Directs project management functions which support business partners. Responsible for successful execution (within an international matrix environment) of multiple, concurrent projects for development, technology transfer, and support initiatives for large volume and/or complex projects across multiple divisions.
• Prepare, approve, and control expense, headcount, and capital budgets. Ensure budget targets are met, and operations have adequate resources in facilities, equipment, and personnel to meet business plans.
• Direct the administrative aspects of the groups by ensuring the preparation of performance plans, job descriptions, and conducting employee performance reviews. This also includes hiring, rewarding, and…