Posted: 21-May-25
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Type: Full Time
Years of Experience:
Additional Information:
Internal Number: 25000128
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!
Job Summary
This position is responsible for developing a new application and support product launch through testing plan, procedure, data analysis, and communication of results with customers. The individual will assist with optimizing customer processes and conditions while providing education to external customers on how to run Avient materials. Tooling design and flow modeling of Avient materials as well as customer samples. Troubleshoot issues that are raised by the customer. Actively participate in the resolution of customer complaints. Requires three plus years direct, relevant experience with the ability to operate with little to no direction.
Essential Functions
- Participate in development of new application, product launch testing plan, data analysis, and/or communication of results.
- Identify technical specifications required for established Avient customers.
- Documentation and preparation of product specifications incorporating Avient products and services into customer applications.
- Participates in resolution of customer complaints/issues.
- Ensure all activities are in line with Safety & Health principles. Proactively support safe working environment and assess all potential hazards.
- Provide technical service to our customer & commercial team prior and after sales such as application guidance, specification understanding, process guidelines & give technical presentations.
- Troubleshooting, processing challenges and customer complaints; investigate and resolve problems through a pragmatic, but scientific approach. Timely assist our customers on site or virtually.
- Provide to global technology and commercial team a technical report of the customer issue, resolution approach, and test report.
- Collaborate within our global technology team and also cross-functional team including marketing, sourcing, manufacturing, commercial, regulatory to ensure alignment of the technical service activities.
- Feedback advice for technology and/or product improvement based on customer feedback.
- Create technical data sheets.
- Lead and coordinate with the plant technical trials and transfers; process, testing plans, data analysis, and communication of results.
- Product development and testing: with guidance develop products meeting customer specifications, quality and operation standards based on input from the rest of the technology group.
- Conduct experimental trials from processing to testing.
- Initiate laboratory/plant capabilities improvement to allow appropriate testing capabilities.
- Ensure testing are performed according to established standards.
- Support raw material evaluation and selection.
- Participate in scale-up process and support the plant accordingly.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree required in Chemical Engineering or related discipline. Master's Degree preferred.
- Polymer Composites experience preferred.
- Proficient in design using CAD, Structural analysis and design.
- Demonstrated strong technical writing skills.
Additional Qualifications
- Complex problem-solving skills in translating customer needs into solutions.
- Technical aptitude.
- Self-motivated, team player.
- Strong organizational skills.
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, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.