Automation Technologist

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 Terre Haute team is seeking an Automation Technologist. This role is responsible for optimizing and maintaining the reliability of the plant’s power distribution systems, drives, PLCs, and automation technologies while supporting capital projects, system upgrades, and new technology implementations. The Automation Technologist partners across the organization to solve complex process control issues, drive process optimization and energy efficiency initiatives, and ensure automation systems remain current, reliable, and aligned with business needs.

This position also plays a key role in mentoring and developing technical personnel, supporting reliability initiatives, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, safety, quality, and operational excellence.

• Continuously monitors their impacted area for opportunities to improve equipment and process safety, through compliance with all federal, state, local and Novelis programs, procedures, and regulations.
• Reacts quickly to remove safety detractors reported by others in the form of assigned Safety Work Orders (SWO’s), EHS Incident Reports and other communications.
• Ensure that all their engineering design efforts meet applicable standards, methods and practices, such as NEC, NFPA, ISO, OSHA, EPA, UL, etc.
• Support the BBS process by actively participating and engaging in BBS observations.
• Lead the plant's effort on a Novelis EHS Performance Standard.
• Use the facilities internal and corporate resources, along with third parties to develop engineering knowledge and skills required to continually enhance and optimize the processes' performance.
• Support the assigned Process Center Teams in managing the hopper of improvement activities in support of the PCT’s annual and strategic plans.
• Provide leadership and guidance to ensure engineering activities related to PCT improvement are supported and appropriately considered for funding, to ensure they are completed in a timely manner, on budget and sustained.
• Interact with operators, mechanics, electricians, planner, process leaders, shift specialists and EMRA leaders on a regular basis to ensure the effectiveness of the PM/PdM system from an engineering standpoint.
• Ensure reliability is an integral part of all projects and process optimization activities.
• Assist the reliability organization in coordinating and performing Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for all significant failures for the PCT.
• When new projects and/or changes are made to existing assets, involve the reliability organization to help ensure the appropriate training, communication, documentation and PM/PdM’s are available and/or are created.
• Assess the current assets, relative to its life cycle and capability in achieving the plant’s business plan and recommend appropriate equipment changes to achieve and sustain it.
• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or new technologies which could differentiate Novelis in the market place through product quality, shorter lead times, cost, reduction in environment footprint and energy consumption, improved safety and health, etc.
• Actively support the annual and five (5) year capital plan and all assigned projects, which in turn support the plant’s annual and strategic plans, ensuring the…