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.

The Novelis Operational Excellence team is seeking a regional Operational Excellence Leader. The person in this role will report to the Director of Operational Performance Improvement. The ideal candidate will be responsible assist the Novelis plants operational excellence teams to develop performance improvement plans while aligning targets with business commercial and supply chain requirements. This position will act as expert of NOS (Novelis Operating System) and implement management tools across several manufacturing processes to drive productivity and cost improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the improvement of continuous improvement activities, conducting annual improvement planning cycle (IPC). Carries out performance governance for capacity improvement projects meeting and reviews.
• Support performance improvement director to elaborate operations strategic, ensuring alignment on targets in Operations accordingly to Supply Chain and Commercial needs.
• Develop, along with plant team, capacity improvement plans aligned targets for critical assets.
• Lead the development/improvement of continuous improvement methodologies
• Use data to identify and address organizational performance gaps
• Review the complete cycle time of a given product to be able to identify areas where improvements can be made and where waste can be reduced.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field from an accredited institutions
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
• At least 5 years of experience in Lean and Operational Excellence
• Experience establishing and leading Project Management office
• Flexibility to travel up to 50% of the time
• Proven ability to influence and lead cross functional teams without direct line of authority

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA – Master of Business Administration
• Experience leading operational transformation programs
• Certification in Data Science with advanced excel skills and basic Python

Novelis’ Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis’ North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

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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