Position Overview

Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing an estimated 19 percent of the world's flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, beverage can, automotive and high-end specialty markets.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 11,600 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is investing $2.5 billion to build a new low-carbon recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama. The highly advanced facility will serve growing demand for aluminum beverage can sheet in North America. The new facility will also serve the automotive market, where aluminum is the fastest growing material as automakers make plans to achieve their sustainability goals. It will aim to be net carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2, be powered primarily by renewable energy, use recycled water and be a zero-waste facility.

The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking a Rolling Electrical Engineer to work on site. This role will report Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability & Automation (EMRA) Leader of the hiring Manufacturing Unit. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading electrical engineering and providing support to contribute to the achievement of the plant’s safety, quality, sustainability and budget objectives. This position will guide and manage the activities of others related to electrical engineering and keep current with the constantly evolving technology, balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in automated systems and methods.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities:

• Embrace the Novelis Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Open, Build Trust, Say Anything and Be Authentic!
• Assist in troubleshooting, advanced analysis and identify areas of potential advancements in the processes, equipment, and facilities to achieve increased profitability through reduced costs, increased efficiency, improved quality, increase production output and optimized equipment uptime.
• Support the aluminum manufacturing process by working closely with the Operations, Engineering, Administrative, and Process groups.
• Work closely with the Automation, Reliability & Engineering Managers, develop conceptual and functional requirements for short- and long-term process and equipment development (facility planning) consistent with the business plan.
• Assignment to an on-call rotation to provide after-hours and weekend support as the need arises to assist maintenance in the troubleshooting and resolution of issues having an immediate impact on plant performance. This can involve providing direction/mentorship remotely and/or onsite.
• Technically lead maintenance technicians and engineers as needed- to resolve and prevent maintenance and engineering problems and to develop training programs on processes and equipment for the maintenance staffs.
• Application of state-of-the-art technology and techniques to resolve complex problems related to recycle, remelt and casting electrical controls.
• Train teams on subjects pertaining to electrical controls for recycle, remelt and casting applications.
• Develop and manage relationships with suppliers and other technical resources inside and outside of the Site and Company
• Is responsible for the full scope of the electrical engineering projects including budget control, schedule, and compliance with safety, environmental and sustainability requirements, to assure performance against expectations.
• Review Site equipment and technology for robustness, reliability, and obsolescence. Develop plans for modifications and/or upgrades as needed.
• Prepare and present robust capital expenditure estimates, schedules, and requests, including sound financial analysis/justification, for management approval.
• Constantly search for innovations and continuous improvement.
• Anticipate and lead capital projects from conceptual to implementation phases
• Handle communication interface with plant electrical supply (power distribution).
• Resolve and implement electrical engineering solutions for monitoring of environmental regulations and process and/or system improvements.
• Interact with internal collaborators to support, mentor, and needed assistance to meet safety, quality, reliability, and cost goals.
• Influence regional and/or global decision-making by preparing and presenting technical information to senior management on matters with significant business impact, such as regional/multi-site capital expenditures or regional process/product improvements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 7 years of progressive experience.
• Work experience in the field of factory electrical engineering
• Knowledge of electric motor and drive systems
• Experience with design and program logic for PLCs and HMIs (Siemens preferred).
• Good aptitude for methodical equipment problem-solving.
• Good project management skills
• Result oriented and decision-making capability.
• Proven leadership skills to advise, lead and develop other personnel to accomplish personal, plant and corporate objectives
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization
• Desire to take initiative and develop a pro-active relationship with employees through follow-up, understanding their needs and encouraging a collaborative relationship
• Able to travel up to 50% (North America and Internationally) in the first 3 years. After that period, the travel will be less than 10%.
• Sponsorship for the United State of America VISA is not offered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Steel or Aluminum recycle, remelt and casting process experience.
• Proficiency in Historian (iba/PDA systems).
• Knowledge of large industrial combustion systems is desirable
• Basic understanding of capabilities for controls and servo systems and an understanding of maintenance procedures and principles of equipment reliability.
• Experienced in trouble shooting mechanical systems including hydraulics, pneumatics, tooling issues, measurement feedback systems, and basic design robustness.

What We Offer:

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, driven 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 Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retirement savings plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

At Novelis, we believe our culture of collaboration is what differentiates us, and we would love for you to consider building a career with us. 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.

Location Profile

Novelis’ newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile, AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola, FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying, advanced careers in modern manufacturing and become fully operational in 2025. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling, STEM education and workforce development.