Lead Technical Development 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 North American Automotive team is looking for a Lead Engineer Technical Development. The Lead Technical Development Engineer is a part of our Technical Development team for Automotive and will be located in our Novi Michigan office. Collaborating with the Senior Manager Technical Development this role ensures Novelis products meet customer expectations for present and future demands through hands-on testing material development and executing & evaluating trials across multiple plants. This role provides guidance in developing recipes for the CASH & Finishing processes in our Guthrie Kentucky location.

The Lead Technical Development Engineer acts as an advisor to the Technical Services team and works closely with the Customer Solution Center to understand how plant process variables affect characteristics of materials required for automotive customers. Substantial growth in the demand for aluminum sheet for body structure applications provides an opportunity to efficiently interact with customer design and manufacturing engineers to develop and offer improved products with better value to automotive OEMs. This role supports all automotive and acts as a technical resource for internal and external customers plants OEMs technical service teams R&D etc.

This is a TCP (Technical Career Path) role meaning the candidate will be evaluated at the time of hiring for the appropriate level within the TCP framework. Depending on experience and expertise the selected candidate may be hired at Lead Engineer or another level such as Senior Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Connect with OEMs as needed on requirements & developments; prepares Senior Technical Manager and/or Technical Development Managers for OEM communications
• Lead projects in partnership with OEM Engineering from concept to conclusion
• Lead and contribute to discussions on all new alloy developments with regard to specific customer requirements
• Identify customer requirements for aluminum sheet products including alloy and appropriate surface treatments and topographies
• Develop problem-solve and recommend customer specifications and identify or develop Novelis products and processes to meet them
• Participate in customer design reviews
• Problem solve issues with implementation of Novelis products into OEM manufacturing stream
• Support the execution of the overall portfolio and hopper of improvement activities for Auto products at the various NNA operations
• Identify initiate lead facilitate participate in and/or direct long term product and process development and improvement activities to support achievement of our Novelis Focused Five goals
• Design lead and collaborate on internal trials with Kennesaw and our Manufacturing plants
• Develop product delivery specifications in conjunction with Novelis mills or blanking/tolling subcontractors
• Perform extensive testing and lab work to validate process and product development efforts

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in an engineering field BS targeted at Metallurgical or Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Masters Degree in engineering statistics business administration or a Black Belt preferred
• Minimum 8-10 years experience related to aluminum sheet processing in a technical commercial or product development role
• 5 years in an Aluminum Rolling Mill Background in sheet rolling processes Background in applied statistics preferred
• Excellent communication skills written verbal interpersonal
• Intermediate level statistical analysis
• Problem identification / resolution techniques
• Familiarity with organizational change and project management
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools
• Excellent team facilitation and overall personal engagement skills
• Ability to lead own workload but optimally collaborate with team and outside engineering companies as needed
• Results-oriented with willingness to develop new designs in collaboration with internal partners and industry peers

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 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!

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Novelis Novi office is located twenty-five miles northwest of the heart of the motor city. Its 100 employees provide dedicated commercial sales technical support and recycling teams for Novelis growing automotive customer base. Novi is also the location of the companys Customer Solution Center which accelerates innovation between Novelis and automakers for the next generation of vehicle design. As one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan Novi offers a host of destination shopping and specialty expos fine dining options and outdoor recreation activities. Our Novi team is a key sponsor to community events such as Habitat for Humanity and local schools with its FIRST Robotics team and STEM education programs.

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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