Senior Color Designer

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 as 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.

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.

General Summary:

Under the direction of the Technology Manager, the Senior Color Matcher creates color formulations to meet customer requirements, and is involved in training, troubleshooting and problem solving. Provides guidance to the Color Matching staff.

Essential duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Creates formulations that meet the customer's requirements in a timely and cost effective manner.

• Completes color design using the appropriate combination of different additives, pigments, dyes, and polymers.

• Injection Molder operation.

• Analytical scale operation.

• Ensures formulations comply to customer's specifications, such as medical, FDA, weather, and other requirements.

• Corresponds with the customer as required.

• Trains and mentors lower level Color designers.

• Problem solves and troubleshoots.

• Prepares reports including those to support sales and business projects.

• Enters data into the SAP system to maintain complete and timely records.

• Builds the file match capability by entering match data into the color computer system.

• Uses spectrophotometer to store match data into the color computer system.

• Observes applicable safety, health, and environmental rules and guidelines. Uses appropriate protective equipment.

• Ensures required paperwork is completed properly and accurately

• Performs other tasks as requested.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors in Color Design, Plastics Engineering, polymer science, chemistry or related Engineering field required.

• Advanced degree or experience a plus

• In lieu of degree, 5+ year's related experience in Color Design/Matching

• Injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, thermoforming experience a plus

Additional Qualifications

• Ability to pass a Color Perception test, Munsell FM 100 Hue Test

Technical Competence

• Strong Color Design/Matching skills

• Strong injection molding and/or extrusion processing skills. Knowledge of other processing methods a plus

• Strong mold and part design skills

• Capability to think outside the box and work on cutting edge concepts

• Proficiency with color software and SAP

• Understanding of plastics materials and compounding processes

• Performs work with speed and accuracy.

• Adheres to internal Avient policies and rules. Interprets Technical Data sheets (TDS) / Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and provide proper instruction

Physical/Environ. Demands

Physical Demands: The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects tools or controls; talk and/or hear. Occasionally required to sit. The individual must be able to lift and/or move up to 55 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus and the ability to differentiate color.

Work Environment: The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. Work is inside and the typical noise level is moderate to loud. Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The individual is frequently exposed to vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The individual will be required to work extensively in a lab standing/walking and will, at times, sit at a desk for extended periods.

Competencies:

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:

High School Diploma or GED

Associates Degree or equiv exp

Experience:

Cross Functional

• Chemical Industry

Cross Functional

• Mathematics

R&D & Technology

• Color Matching

R&D & Technology

• Technology/R&D

Cross Functional

• Problem Solving Techniques

Skills and Certifications:

Personal Skills

• Stress Management

Personal Skills

• Manual Dexterity

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