Position Overview

Come join a company that is investing and expanding! Novelis is the largest aluminum sheet provider to the automotive industry. Investing over $300 million to build a state of the art manufacturing unit, specifically designed to continue our growth in the automotive industry.

Novelis employees play a role in shaping a world of sustainable design, innovation, manufacturing excellence and closed-loop recycling. We pride ourselves on the depth of talent opportunities we offer for career advancement, education and management training.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 11,600 employees in 25 operating facilities on four continents and is making significant capital investments in recycling and rolling capacity in North America to meet an increasing customer demand. Novelis North America is co-located with its global headquarters and employs a network of 17 facilities to manufacture aluminum sheet for automotive, transportation, beverage cans, high-end specialty products, building materials and other industrial applications.

Novelis Davenport has an exciting opportunity for an Automation Engineer. This position is responsible for managing systems engineering in the areas of automation and computer systems to contribute to the achievement of the Manufacturing Unit's safety, quality, and cost objectives.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of existing automated systems
• Application of mature engineering knowledge in planning and conducting projects having a scope for independent accomplishment and coordination of responsible assignments
• Application of state-of-the-art technology and techniques to resolve complex engineering problems
• Performs special study programs involving technical data of a complex nature
• Support manufacturing by working closely with the Operations, Engineering and Process Groups
• Direct vendors and consultants
• Involvement in equipment, operator, and maintenance training programs
• Promote external contacts with other operations research groups as necessary
• Must be willing to keep current with the ever-changing technology, balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in process control, process automation and process management systems and methods

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• Experience working in an IT environment organization
• Strong communication skills required
• Software skills in software analysis, design, methodology, and architecture
• Programming experience in software language

Qualifications, Cont.

• Ability to develop relationships with employees
• Must possess leadership skills to direct, lead and develop other personnel to accomplish personal, plant and corporate objectives
• Must be flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment, with ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize work
• Experience in Windows operating system management and configuration as it pertains to a networked manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of manufacturing experience preferred
• Understanding of TCP/IP networks Desired Qualifications
• Experience in HMI/SCADA systems. Experience with WonderWare HMI systems a plus.
• Experience with SQL programming and relational databases
• Experience in building client/server applications
• Experience in multi-threaded applications development
• Experience in Windows operating system management and configuration as it pertains to a networked manufacturing environment
• Experience in supporting the process group and the maintenance group in reliability efforts

Location Profile

Davenport IA has been a key player in the aluminum industry for over 11 decades. Novelis employs more than 300 people in the Davenport community across two facilities: a finishing mill and a casting facility. Novelis is an active and engaged community partner in Davenport teaming up with organizations like Habitat for Humanity Riverbend Food Bank and CASI and sponsoring local events including Advanced Manufacturing Career Day.Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.