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Associate Maintenance Leader - Recycle

Novelis Guthrie Manufacturing Facility
Guthrie, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 9/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/4/2026

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.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Novelis Guthrie, KY team is seeking an Associate Maintenance Leader. The Associate Maintenance Leader manages a team who maintain and repair manufacturing equipment. The incumbent will harness their maintenance and reliability experience and skills to lead multi-craft Maintenance Technicians. They also will use leadership abilities to contribute to driving safety, productivity, and exceptional quality in the Guthrie Plant. Through collaboration with multi-functional teams, this role will prioritize team workload and drive continuous improvement. As a Leader, the goal is to coach your team members in technical and behavioral competencies to deliver high impact business results. A successful candidate will be self-directed and have the ability to communicate with team members at all levels.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive a proactive approach to maintenance following RCM (Reliability-centered maintenance) principles.
  • Inspect facilities periodically to determine problems and necessary maintenance.
  • Work with the planning and scheduling team to define weekly maintenance schedules and allocate work.
  • Schedule maintenance resources and coverage to maintain the appropriate onsite personnel level at all times.
  • Train and develop well-rounded multi-craft Maintenance Technicians.
  • Supervise Technicians and/or Contractors during installations, repairs or maintenance (electricians, plumbers, contractors etc.)
  • Inspect and maintain building systems (heating, ventilation, grounds etc.)
  • Contribute to the development of maintenance budget and ensure compliance.
  • Participate in coordination of projects.
  • Provide leadership to the Maintenance Team members to implement cost effective preventive and predictive maintenance of the plant process equipment.
  • Provide resources to support equipment related loss investigations to determine root causes and provide recommendations and mitigation plans to prevent reoccurrence.
  • Collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, procurement, and other identified partners to drive improved asset availability and support reliability.
  • Ensure the facility’s assets are operating reliably, efficiently, and in sync with all safety guidelines and government regulations.
  • Support Maintenance in the review and rationalization and optimization of effective PM plans.
  • Use communication skills to establish partnerships across to the site to achieve plant performance goals.
  • Work a flexible schedule, including occasional weekend duty as necessary to manage facility performance.

Qualifications:

  • Experience working in a 24/7 operation.
  • Strong commitment to safety.
  • Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects.
  • Experience in root cause analysis.
  • Experience with maintenance standard methodologies such as shutdown planning and execution, preventive maintenance, and precision maintenance techniques.
  • Experience with predictive maintenance technologies (i.e. vibration & oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound.)
  • Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point.

Preferred Qualifications

  • BS Degree
  • Knowledge of and experience working in aluminum process operations
  • Experience working with CMMS, SAP
  • Five (5) or more years of leadership experience in Maintenance, Engineering, or Operations

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 by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

  • Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
  • Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
  • Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
  • Diabetes Management Program
  • Pet insurance
  • Identity Theft Protection
  • PerkSpot Discount Program
  • Tuition assistance and career development programs

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Location Profile

Novelis’ Guthrie facility is located in Guthrie Kentucky approximately 30 minutes from the Tennessee state line near Clarksville Tennessee and Hopkinsville Kentucky. As Novelis’ newest facility Guthrie will house a heat treatment and pretreatment line that will serve the North American automotive market and employ 125 residents. In addition to hunting fishing and hiking residents enjoy the Guthrie Transportation Museum which is the hub of the city’s renewal efforts. The Guthrie team enjoys partnerships with Hopkinsville Community College Todd County High School Guthrie Fire Department and several local Rotary Clubs.

 

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.

Disclaimer

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

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