ABOUT AVIENT:

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.

Purpose of the job

Facilitate and conduct training sessions both in-person and virtually.

Activities include developing training content and supporting materials, establishing training schedules/programs, delivering training as well as maintaining the training completion records, and conducting post-session evaluations.

Performs new hire orientation and assist with the onboarding process.

Administer and maintain training and training records for site personnel as required by training procedures.

Job Context

Training Associate will operate within the organizational structure to develop, coordinate and conduct training programs and activities for their respective areas.

Job Content:

Key Areas of Accountability / Responsibility

1. All employees have the responsibility to:

a) Show behavior in line with the SHE and Security risks and agreed controls, including being compliant to Avient Protective Materials requirements, rules and procedures.

b) Address any person behaving in a SHE and Security irresponsible way.

c) Report any SHE and Security incidents (including observed risks) to management.

2. Avient Protective Materials Values - Must strive to behave in line with Avient Protective Materials Values, supporting and encouraging colleagues in their alignment with our Values. Aspires to demonstrate exemplary behavior with respect to the Avient Protective Materials values inside and outside Avient Protective Materials.

3. 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.

4. 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 Avient Protective Materials property; reporting security threats and incidents; proper control of Avient Protective Materials property and keys.

5. Participate and provide oversight to the orientation plan for new and returning employees into the organization ensuring that the new or returning employee is adequately prepared to be successful in their assignment.

6. Provide oversight to the Training program of their assigned areas ensuring that training is conducted in a consistent manner across their assigned organization.

7. Develop and deliver advanced training and other technical courses to their assigned organization and ensuring that documentation of training is captured for attending the training session.

8. Ensure training offerings created meet the needs of the business as determined by management.

9. Coordinate training sessions for applicable divisional training and working with other departments such as SHE department and QA Compliance to coordinate other necessary training and associated documentation for all business unit personnel.

10. Populate and maintain all business unit training data in the learning management system.

11. Administer and maintain a job specific training curriculum for each job in the respective area. This includes coordinating annual curricula review with area management and area supervisors. It also includes updating curriculum as needed to add new procedures, courses or other items that are applicable to the job.

12. Utilize training data reports to provide training data to area personnel as needed.

13. Provide training information and documentation as requested and interface with QA compliance, regulatory inspectors and customer auditors on any training questions/audits.

14. Provide monthly report measuring progress against objectives on area unit training activities to manager.

15. It is the responsibility of each employee to work in a safe and responsible manner in order to create an injury-free and incident-free workplace.

16. Comply with all job-related safety and other training requirements.

17. Perform other duties as assigned.

b) Authorities

1. Within policy guidelines.