Sr Lead APM Engineer

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 13000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

The Novelis Digital Center of Excellence Data Science team is seeking a Sr. Lead Advanced Predictive Maintenance (APM) Engineer based in Atlanta. This role will focus on APM projects for different plants within Novelis. Additionally this role will support the APM Lead in developing and setting standards governance and processes for the APM Analytical workflows. The role requires 20-25% travel within the US and sometimes internationally.

APM is a branch of analytics that focuses on analyzing sensor data with the power of machine learning and big data technologies. The goal of the analytics is to avoid asset failure and high reactive maintenance costs by predicting the breakdown of the assets. The output from the analytics is monitoring and alerting systems that provide information on the asset life degradation in the operating condition of the asset and predicting the failure of the equipment on the asset.

Responsibilities:

• Work with vendors to implement the APM solution and then own the maintenance of the solution for various plants/sites.
• Work with plant engineers located globally to solve business challenges related to forecasting the breakdown of the machines using sensor data analysis techniques such as Vibration Analysis Motor Circuit Analysis Oil Analysis and Infrared Thermography.
• Develop internal APM products using the latest anomaly detection machine-learning algorithms for predicting machine failures.
• Communicate results of the model to non-technical resources through various means including designing and building intuitive UI and PowerPoint presentations.
• Regularly test and maintain analytical models to improve efficiency and keep up with changing business needs ensuring timely analysis and testing for regular maintenance of solutions over time.
• Adhere and improve standards for performing APM projects.
• Support the building of accelerators for various APM solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in designing developing testing and implementing anomaly detection models for time-series data applying the latest unsupervised models such as GANs and VAEs.
• Strong knowledge of the sensor data especially vibration temperature pressure etc.
• Strong ability to combine large volumes of disparate data sources and mine them for meaningful insight and to present the analysis findings to business partners.
• Strong hands-on experience in various analytic tools such as Databricks Python Power BI Excel and SQL
• Degree in electrical mechanical industrial robotics or related discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Predictive Maintenance technologies in manufacturing specifically metals manufacturing
• Experience in building frontend solutions using ReactJS or NextJS
• Understanding of operational technology (OT) architectures and Industry 4.0
• Masters degree in Analytics or another advanced degree

What We Offer:

This role offers ahybrid schedulewith a minimum of two days in the office.Novelis values the need for flexibility and balance for employees and is committed to a Flex Work approach that empowers employees to maintain work-life balance while enjoying the benefits of a collaborative office environment.

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 competitive in the marketplace and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your familys well-being:

• Medical dental and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retiree Medical Plans medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis sponsored Retiree Health Access
• Retirement Savings Account
• Employee assistance programs available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

Novelis Global Corporate and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta GA employing around 700 people. Supporting its 31 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 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 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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