Template​/External Requisition Title Electrical Engineer Lead

Position Overview

Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing an estimated 19 percent of the world's flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, beverage can, automotive and high-end specialty markets.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 11,600 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is investing $2.5 billion to build a new low-carbon recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama. The highly advanced facility will serve growing demand for aluminum beverage can sheet in North America. The new facility will also serve the automotive market, where aluminum is the fastest growing material as automakers make plans to achieve their sustainability goals.

It will aim to be net carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2, be powered primarily by renewable energy, use recycled water and be a zero-waste facility.

The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking an Electrical Engineer to work on site with our Finishing Unit. The person in this role will work with the Finishing Mill EMRA (Engineering, Maintenance Reliability and Automation) Leader. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading electrical engineering and providing support to reinforce the achievement of the plant’s safety, quality, sustainability and budget objectives.

This position will be responsible for the activities of others related to electrical engineering and keep current with the constantly evolving technology, balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in automated systems and methods.

This role will be a key member of the project team for new facility as well as ready the plant for operations.

• Embrace the Novelis Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Open, Build Trust, Say Anything, Own It, and Be Authentic!
• Own the plant effort on Safe Work Practices and optimal design for EHS
• Be responsible for the full scope of the Electrical engineering project including budget control, schedule, and compliance with safety, environmental and sustainability requirements, to assure performance against expectations
• Own the discussions on equipment design, detailed engineering with the Mill OEMs and third parties
• Coordinate the Electrical build, commissioning, and acceptance tests of a new World Class Manufacturing Finishing Mill in this facility
• Travel locally and abroad to perform inspections, technical meetings, and receive training
• Meet assigned project commitment, timelines and deliverables
• Communicate regularly with project team members to provide status updates as needed or to scope projects
• Elaborate scope of project, analysis technical and commercial offer and submit purchase request for approval
• Collaborate with the team in order to drive operational readiness of the plant production commissioning (elaborate and deliver training, elaborate maintenance plans, FMEA, fine tune the equipment and process for optimal performance)
• Develop the technical team on hard and soft skills
• Provide a strong Electrical understanding of process and components involved in their equipment
• Develop and define the Key Performance Indicators (Uptime, MTTR, MTBF, PM Completion, etc.), and create, lead and communicate the monthly dashboard for Electrical reliability
• Develop and refine the Electrical preventive/predictive maintenance program in a systematic, professional manner coordinating all efforts with operations, engineering, and the Electrical team, to ensure the program is properly approved and endorsed
• Provide administration, control and analysis of all data, records and equipment histories to continually review and refine PM/PdM frequencies
• Coordinate and provide appropriate Electrical training on PM/PdM techniques for selected Electrical maintenance and engineering personnel on appropriate topics
• Coordinate and perform Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for all electrical significant failures in the facility
• Assist in troubleshooting, advanced analysis and identify areas of potential advancements in…