Template​/External Requisition Title Maintenance Technician - Recycle Center

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.

About the role:

Novelis – Guthrie Recycle Center, located in Guthrie, KY is seeking an experienced multi-craft Maintenance Technician to join our team. This position will require a safety conscious, collaborative team player with initiative to support and drive equipment reliability and uptime, through sound multi-craft maintenance practices, predictive maintenance, advanced troubleshooting techniques, and personal accountability.

This position reports directly to the Guthrie Recycle Center, Associate Maintenance Leader and will be required to interact with fellow Maintenance team personnel, as well as serving all other departments across the Guthrie Recycle Center, to ensure an adequate operation. A successful candidate will be self-directed when necessary and provide appropriate feedback and improvement ideas on projects, planned tasks, and equipment related issues;

as well as possessing the ability to effectively communicate with team members at all levels.

The schedule for this position is a rotating, day/night shift, with overtime as required to support urgent maintenance demands and shift coverage. Intermittent schedule changes will occur at least, biannually, in order to support planned maintenance outages.

Responsibilities:

• Possess a high level of safety consciousness for self, as well as all other individuals and promote a positive safety culture through following the site safety requirements.
• Maintain a strong sense of self-accountability, as well as being able to respectfully, hold others accountable.
• Execute scheduled preventive and corrective maintenance work orders on weekly schedules, while maintaining records of breakdowns, time confirmations, and material movements within the site CMMS.
• Identify potential failures and proactively repair/report before they cause unplanned downtime or upset conditions, to maintain equipment reliability.
• Efficiently respond and troubleshoot equipment breakdowns and make effective repairs to get the equipment back to a reliable opera table state, in a time-orderly fashion; to improve Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and extend Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
• Accurately estimate and communicate equipment breakdown repair times to allow affected departments to accurately plan for upset conditions.
• Collaborate across all departments and with stakeholders to maintain transparency and improve asset reliability.
• Support Reliability processes such as RCA’s, RCFA’s, Bad Actor Analysis, etc.; to ensure that accurate data is being captured and conveyed, as well as opportunities for improvement are being generated.
• Promote a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) mentality to maintain maximum asset availability and operational longevity.
• Support 5S practices to ensure that the maintenance shop, tools, material, and equipment are properly stored and maintained.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completed High School Diploma or GED, in conjunction with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, operating in an industrial maintenance setting.
• Capable of communicating professionally, on a technical level.
• Fluent in reading and interpreting equipment drawings, schematics, manuals and PLC ladder logic to aid in troubleshooting and/or problem solving.
• Knowledgeable on maintaining mechanical components, such as but not limited to bearings, gears, driven shaft assemblies, belt and chain drive systems, conveyors, various types of pumps and gearboxes, with associated lubrication standards.
• Knowledgeable on maintaining electrical components and control systems, such as but not limited to 3 phase/480V electrical systems, motor controls, AC drives and motors. Various types of control sensors, calibration/instrumentation,…