Materials Engineer Co-op

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.

Materials Engineer Co-op

Company 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 13000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Position Overview

The Global Beverage Packaging team located in Kennesaw GA is seeking a Co-op Materials Engineer. This role is responsible for conducting metallurgical investigation of Beverage Packaging samples produced in varied lab-scale processes to reflect full-scale coil behavior. By comparing lab-scale analysis results with production coil data the engineer will identify optimal lab process parameters that improve the data reliability and successfully reduce costly full trials. This co-op starts May 2026 and ends December 2026.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct lab-scale design-of-experiments and analyze resulting microstructures and properties.
• Vary process parameters systematically to assess their impact on material behavior.
• Compare lab-scale results with full coil data to identify discrepancies and possible correlations.
• Analyze microstructural and mechanical properties using appropriate characterization techniques.
• Establish optimal lab scale process conditions that most accurately reflect full scale coil characteristics.
• Document findings and distribute to R&D teams at various regions and functions.
• Collaborate effectively with lab teams to enable insightful analysis.
• Maintain lab equipment and ensure safe efficient operation during testing.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Materials Science Metallurgical Engineering or a related field.
• Basic understanding of physical metallurgy including phase transformations and microstructure-property relationships.
• Familiarity with basic laboratory equipment and techniques such as optical and electron microscopies and thermal processing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail in experimental design and data interpretation.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for documenting results and collaborating across teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience in materials testing alloy development or process engineering.
• Familiarity with aluminum alloy metallurgy especially 5xxx and 3xxx series alloys.
• Experience with advanced characterization techniques such as Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and other high-resolution analytical methods for microstructural and phase analysis.
• Working knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g. Excel MATLAB Python) to support interpretation of experimental data.
• Ability to work independently in a lab setting and manage multiple experimental tasks efficiently.

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 familys well-being:

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