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 Global Automotive Technology team is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented co-op student to support automotive research, competitive benchmarking and data analytics. This co-op will begin May 2027 and end December 2027. The student will organize vehicle and market information, develop analytical tools, identify trends and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Research vehicle specifications, technologies, market trends and publicly available competitive information.
• Collect, organize and maintain structured automotive datasets from approved sources.
• Support vehicle benchmarking and lightweighting-related analyses across selected vehicle segments and systems.
• Develop Excel- or Power BI-based tools, dashboards and visualizations.
• Apply basic statistical and data-quality methods to identify trends, gaps and inconsistencies.
• Prepare concise updates, summaries and presentations for technical and business audiences.
• Collaborate with engineering, materials, sustainability and commercial team members.

Key Projects

• Automotive benchmarking database development and data-quality review.
• Assessment of vehicle features, specifications and market positioning.
• Lightweighting opportunity screening and decision-support tool development.
• Dashboard creation, data visualization and executive communication.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Business Analytics or a related field.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills; Power BI, Python, database or statistical-tool experience is a plus.
• Interest in automotive technology, vehicle design, sustainability, materials or product strategy.
• Ability to research technical information, work with large datasets and document sources carefully.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a cross-functional environment.

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:

• Combined housing and relocation stipend for out of state interns or interns outside an extended radius for select positions
• Competitive pay

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.

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