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.

Position Overview

The Novelis North America Bay Minette Technical team is seeking a Site MES Leader to maintain and improve manufacturing systems at the new Bay Minette facility. This role is crucial for optimizing existing assets and using emerging technologies to enhance fabrication processes, safety, productivity, quality, and inventory management.

Responsibilities

• Be a role model for safety; demonstrating behaviors that align with the Novelis Safety Absolutes and Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture.
• Partner with site, regional, and global teams to collect project requirements and feedback, translating them into project actions.
• Identify and address customer and operational problems, leading project teams to solve them and ensuring alignment across geographies.
• Lead regular review meetings with partners and ensure project team meets assigned commitments.
• Manage interpersonal dynamics in project groups to achieve constructive outcomes.
• Influence site decision-making by presenting technical information to senior management and serving as a technical expert on MES.
• Possess high-level knowledge of site utilities and manufacturing processes, assessing the viability of technologies and making recommendations.
• Present technical information effectively to peers or senior business leaders and contribute to solving complex technical problems.
• Show active involvement in site, regional, or global projects, including training and support of other departments.
• Support the introduction of Industry 4.0 within the manufacturing environment and act as a liaison between Shop Floor and Global Information Technology groups.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering in a related technical field, with 7 years of progressive experience in manufacturing execution systems.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and the ability to communicate with all organizational levels.
• Experience in integrating MES systems with ERP and automation systems, and understanding of communication methods standardization (preferred Microsoft SQL).
• Preferred experience in Siemens OpCenter and the Metals Rolling/Fabrication industry.

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

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

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.

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