Process Engineering Leader

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.

• Use communication skills to establish partnerships across the site to achieve plant performance goals.
• Work a flexible schedule, including occasional weekend duty as necessary to manage facility performance.
• Represent assigned core area of responsibility while incorporating a more extensive scope of vision into their considerations. Local solutions with broad positive implications.
• Identify and eliminate the causes of quality defects.
• Resolve customer complaints (often involving providing technical assistance and advice to the customer).
• Assess and resolve of process deviations that lead to decreased quality, utilization, and throughput.
• Participate in developing and refining new products for end-use effectiveness, manufacturing cost control, and market development.
• Develop and implement projects ranging in scope from near-immediate needs to long-term critical initiatives.
• Coordinate employees and resources associated with projects and daily activities at all levels of the site, including those external to the site.
• Provide day-to-day support necessary to the manufacturing unit to obtain departmental objectives for safety, quality, cost, and recovery.
• Establish and maintain operating practices, control plans, and quality standards.
• Provide input on business decisions to ensure production, sales, and marketing decisions are taken with full knowledge of their technological implications.
• Develop new processes and modify the existing ones to improve product quality and meet customer specifications at a minimum cost with uncompromised safety.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction by prompt and accurate investigation and resolution of complaints with sustainable solutions.
• Contribute to resolving in-plant product and process problems to meet the Manufacturing Unit's cost and production effectiveness objectives. Safety and Lean design are central to this functionality.
• Develop a proactive relationship with employees through follow-up, understanding their needs, and fostering collaboration.
• Understand Management of Change and identifying areas of improvement for Safety, Quality, and Production within your immediate department as well as the plant.

• Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects. Preferably in relevant aluminum metallurgical assignments of increasing complexity and magnitude.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload; must be able to manage multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail.
• Experience with 8D problem solving techniques
• Personal traits should include the ability to apply human relation skills to motivate, train, understand, and develop others to attain the plant and corporate objectives
• Understand automotive quality specifications.
• Flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a technical field, Engineering, Metallurgy, or Chemical
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Experience leading and mentoring others. Supervising direct reports
• Five (5) or more years of experience in Process or Product Quality, aluminum industry

Novelis benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, competitive in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family’s well-being:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts – Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and…