Sr Electrical 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 America Building and Construction Business is looking for aSRElectrical Engineerfor our Davenport IA facility. As the SR Electrical Engineer you will be responsible for analyzing and diagnosing root causes of problems and failures recommending and providing solutions to improve uptime. Experience in a heavy manufacturing environment is ideal for this role. You will be a contributor to the Plant Engineering Team as well as the overall team contributing to manufacturing excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Align with all safety standards and regulations.
• Independently evaluate select and apply standard engineering techniques procedures and criteria in making minor adaptations and modifications to electrical equipment.
• Apply lean manufacturing techniques.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing tasks promoting open communication with peers and providing updates to direct management.
• Draft and submit budget proposals recommend subsequent budget changes when necessary.
• Maintain compliance with all company and governmental regulations.
• Prepare and/or modify Electrical drawings specifications calculations charts and graphs.
• Build effective partnerships with plant personal through the implementation of small capital projects.
• Provide technical assistance and training to all applicable personnel regarding electrical systems and functions.
• Assist and lead maintenance in diagnosing equipment problems and recommend methods to prevent reoccurrence of these issues to improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs.
• Identify potential issues related to the proper and cost-effective operation and maintenance of equipment and processes to reduce costs and increase throughput.
• Maintain the integrity of engineering drawings files project and equipment archives along with updating deficiencies as they arise.
• Research plan and implement assigned projects/tasks to achieve the stated purpose while using the best technologies at the lowest cost.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date specialist knowledge on equipment.
• Implement the Reliability Roadmap objectives in your assigned area.

Qualifications:

• Four-year degree in Electrical Engineering or Technology and minimum of three years experience in an industrial environment
• Minimum three years experience with controls.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills interpersonal skills and organization skills
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Continuous Improvement principles helpful

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aluminum industry experience and experience with the hot rolling process
• Lean manufacturing/Six Sigma experience

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

Davenport IA has been a key player in the aluminum industry for over 11 decades. Novelis employs more than 300 people in the Davenport community across two facilities: a finishing mill and a casting facility. Novelis is an active and engaged community partner in Davenport teaming up with organizations such as Toys for Tots and Hope at the BRICK House. Novelis is also a member of the Good Neighbor Project in Davenport.

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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