Raw Materials Analyst

Position Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

The Novelis team in Bay Minette, Alabama has an opening for aRaw Materials Analyst.

This role reports to the Supply Chain Leader – Raw Materials.

The Raw Materials Analystis responsible forthereportdevelopment,dataanalytics, and schedule/inventorycoordinationfor Bay Minette’s Casting Lines.

You will partner with operations, procurement,logistics, quality teams, and technical customer service departments to drive supply chain cost improvements and excellence.

The day-to-day decisions made by theRaw Materials Analyst have a direct impact on customer centricity (especially OTIF). This role also requires being cross trained across all Bay Minette planning, scheduling, andlogisticsfunctions.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting world class safety culture.

• Maintain and support a safe working environment in the plant.

• Monitors daily raw material flow from inbound through the casting process, including evaluating metal inputs and balancing scrap types to support production schedule.

• Supports initiatives to improve raw material process flows, helping toeliminatebottlenecks andidentifyobstacles to production.

• Provide order administration support from a scheduling perspective including rotating coverage.

• Possessexpertiseon the interaction and flow of Supply Chain related information between SAP, Quintiq Scheduler and Level 2 systems. Resolve transactional errors to ensure system accuracy.

• Work closely with plant operations to be part of the discussion chainregardingraw material and inventory issues.

• Facilitate the transformation of manual reporting tools into a well-rounded business intelligenceenvironmentautomating manual work & improving efficiency.

• Review capacity assumptions with operations leadership periodically to gain alignment.

• Monitors critical operating materials, such as production consumables, metal inputs, or scrap, to alwaysmaintainadequate levels. Failure could result in plants shutting down or unsafe operating conditions.

• Monitors processes focused on inventory control and productivity levels.

• Provide input andfrequentlyinteract with the plant to ensure awareness of raw material or inventory issues within atimeframe, which allows for reaction.

• Acquire and communicate improvement ideas from crew members, management, or self-directed.

• Participate in improvement projectsinitiatedby plant management thatimpactraw materials.

• Consistently seek out training and learning to improve performance and to be data driven in all endeavors.

• May be asked to perform other supply chain duties such as scheduling, planning, forecasting, and supporting production.

• Special projects and other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications
:

• Associates degree and 2 years of experience or a bachelor’s degreeandexposure to supply chain management through experience and/or course work.

• 2 years of analytical experience preferred.

• Experience inaluminum ormetalscasting preferred but not required.

• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to communicate with all levels in the organization

• Ability to work in an active manufacturing environment andmaintaina strong senseof safety.

• Must be flexible and able tooperatein a fast-paced environment.

• Advancedor higher Excel
  
  Skills:

• Ability to manipulate,cleanse and analyze large amountsof data in Excel.

• ExperienceutilizingVBA

• Stronganalyticalskills. Ability to learn new software programs quickly.

• SAP experiencestronglypreferred.

• Must alsopossessleadership skills to direct, lead and develop other personnel toaccomplishdepartment, plant,and corporate objectives.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodations

• Must be able to move materials of up to 35 pounds.

What We Offer:

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