EMEA Engineering Development Program Associate

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Program start date: 1 October 2026
 

As part of our European 24-month program, you will have the opportunity to gain a wide breadth of exposure and experience across our key business functions. In addition, you will continue to grow and develop your career through on-the-job learning, formal training, coaching and mentoring. At the end of the program, you will be placed in a leading engineering role that aligns with your strengths and career aspirations, providing an exciting foundation for your future with Avient. 

In addition to the on-the-job and formal training, we offer a long-term career path within a high-performing and rewarding organization supported by teambuilding and network activities and a culture built on Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence.

About Us

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.