Quality Manager
Avient · Avon Lake, OH
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Avient (chemicals) in Avon Lake, OH.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, MSA / Gage R&R, SAP
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $90k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 9 live postings that list pay, out of 83 quality engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Ohio plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 82 other live quality postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $90k–$130k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 61%
- FMEA 39%
- PPAP 39%
- Supplier quality 39%
- ISO 9001 36%
- SPC 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Avient
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- 2
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- 3
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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This plant: Avient in Avon Lake
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Full description from AvientAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
as required by the ISO Standard and described in the Quality
Manual.
- ✓Overall responsibility for maintaining and updating the IQS procedures and
documentation system.
- ✓Oversees the manufacturing-related process controls and that all products produced at
the facility meet the
requirements
of the end-user/customer.
- ✓Ensures that process conditions are monitored, audited, and controlled for product consistency and according to the specified conditions.
- ✓Ensures that products and process changes are made only according to the sequence of activities specified in the MSA/CSA process.
Conducts activity to support the AVL Management Operating System including maintaining Y-Charts, driving key initiatives and leading Tier 3 weekly reviews.
- ✓Oversees the testing in accordance with Avient Lab Performance Policy and that all
product grading is accomplished in a timely and accurate manner.
- ✓Represents the plant and Avient in all aspects of professional dealings with customers,
the technology community and the commercial group. Resolves and communicates on
customer complaints, and handles technical and quality questions from internal and
external sources.
- ✓Coordinates investigation and corrective action on all plant-related customer complaints.
- ✓Assesses training needs and provides training to lab/production employees.
- ✓Other duties as assigned
Education and Experience
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- ✓5+ years experience in Manufacturing/ Leadership
- ✓5+ years Problem Solving Techniques
- ✓5+ Quality System Management with ISO experience. Medical device system management preferred
- ✓Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement experience preferred
Additional
Qualifications
- ✓Software skills; Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, SAP
- ✓Demonstrated success with critical communications – internal and external customers to gain alignment and progress toward goal.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions to resolve critical issues
#CA-MM
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.
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Position is an on-site position to manage the overall plant quality system and product testing.
This person will be responsible for the supervision of Quality Engineer, Lab
Associates/Technicians.
- •ISO Management Representative: Establishes, implements and maintains the quality
system
