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Sr Quality Engineer

Novelis
Davenport, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/17/2026
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 Davenport team is seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer at our Casting and Finishing Plants! The Sr. Quality Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and ensuring compliance with the plant’s quality management system. This role leads and collaborates with process engineering teams to audit, enhance, and implement quality systems and controls that support the production of competitive products aligned with customer requirements and business objectives. Demonstrating specialized technical expertise, the Sr. Quality Engineer contributes to the design, optimization, and maintenance of manufacturing processes and equipment, while ensuring alignment to established quality standards and maintaining the desired level of product quality.

Responsibilities

  • Implement quality control procedures, analyze data to identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies to enhance product quality.
  • Design and install sophisticated testing equipment and performs product testing and analysis to maintain quality levels and minimize defects and failure rates.
  • Analyze reports and defective products to determine trends and recommend corrective actions.
  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams to resolve quality issues and provide guidance and training to junior quality engineers.
  • Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment
  • Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment
  • Conduct quality assurance tests and performing statistical analysis to assess the level of control and manage product quality risks
  • Undertake root cause analysis of incidents requiring corrective action
  • Ensure that corrective measures and deviation meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is aligned with requirements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgy Engineering field
  • 3 – 5 years of experience in a Heavy Manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Metallurgy
  • 5 years of experience

What We Offer:

Benefits

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

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 such as Toys for Tots and Hope at the BRICK House. Novelis is also a member of the Good Neighbor Project in Davenport.

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:

  • Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis
  • Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

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