Novelis

Senior Rolling Process Engineer

Job Locations US-GA-Kennesaw
ID
2026-51687
Job Type
Standard
Schedule
Full Time
City
Kennesaw
State/Province
Georgia
Country
US

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 Senior Rolling Process Engineer will serve as a technical expert and enterprise-level innovation leader across Novelis’ worldwide flat-rolled aluminum operations. This role is based at the Novelis Global Research & Technology Center in Kennesaw, Georgia and reports to the Senior Manager, Process Innovation and Modeling, while working closely with plant leadership, regional technical leaders, and corporate stakeholders globally.

 

You will define, influence, and continuously improve how Novelis designs, operates, and advances rolling, heat-treat, and finishing processes supporting both existing plants and future capital investments. You will have direct exposure to senior technical and plant leadership across Novelis’ global network.

Responsibilities

  • Provide deep technical leadership across the aluminum rolling value chain, including ingot casting, continuous casting, hot and cold rolling, heat treatment, quenching, slitting, and strip handling to solve complex problems
  • Own and drive high-impact innovation and process-improvement initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, throughput, cost, and sustainability performance
  • Support major capital projects with process design expertise, specification development, and start-up support
  • Standardize and scale best practices across regions, translating local plant success into globally adopted technical standards
  • Travel (~20%) to Novelis sites worldwide to solve complex technical challenges, support implementation, and influence global technical direction
  • Safety is foundational at Novelis. You will design and implement process improvements with safety engineered in from the start, ensuring new technologies and practices meet or exceed global safety standards
  • Model world-class process rigor and actively influence safe behaviors and risk management practices across plants and project teams.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
  • 7+ years of hands-on flat rolled products manufacturing experience including rolling, heat-treat, and strip processing with demonstrated impact across multiple facilities or product lines
  • Proven success solving production, quality, or yield-limiting issues in operating mills with measurable business outcomes
  • Strong communication and multi-functional influence skills across plant, regional, and corporate collaborators, must be able to build trust
  • Project management- define scope, align partners, manage risk, and deliver results

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep experience in aluminum flat-rolled products manufacturing
  • Leadership in major process-improvement, innovation, or technology-deployment initiatives with enterprise or multi-site scope

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

Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Research and Technology Center located in Kennesaw Georgia within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area is a cutting-edge full-service research and technology hub that employs approximately 200 people including world-class engineers metallurgists chemists scientists technologists and technicians. The facility includes state-of-the-art lab equipment and a diverse mix of product pilot lines that bring innovative solutions to customers in the automotive beverage can and specialty markets. Kennesaw provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural opportunities and educational institutions. Novelis is committed to the Kennesaw community and supports a number of local charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity as well as FIRST Robotics aimed at encouraging young people to pursue the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields in order to spur the next generation of scientists and innovators.

 

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 - Novelis
2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

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