Process 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 Lincolnshire team is seeking a Process Engineer. This position is responsible for assisting in the development of the cold rolling annealing tension leveling and slitting processes and providing all necessary support to contribute to the achievement of the plants safety quality production sustainability and budget objectives. This position will support the activities of others related to the processes and keep current with the constantly evolving technology balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in process control and problem-solving methods.

Responsibilities

• Work safely in compliance with all corporate plant local state and federal safety rules and regulations and staying on top of current policies and procedures ensuring outside vendors/contractors align with the same.
• Investigate develop and provide recommended solutions for any safety issues related to plant equipment requiring field or project engineering as assigned.
• Establish complete and audit routine management for the site with KPI CIV and COV monitoring/control charts.
• Work alongside operators and other manufacturing unit staff as needed for RCAs to solve and prevent problems that impact product quality and productivity.
• Identify areas of potential advancements in the processes equipment and facility to achieve increased profitability through reduced costs increased efficiency improved quality increase production output and optimized equipment uptime.
• Ensure that the processes result in a product that meets or exceeds our internal and external customer expectations.
• Understand and be mindful of any process projects including budget control schedule and compliance with safety environmental and sustainability requirements to assure performance against expectations.
• Continually review control plans work instructions process methods equipment and technology for robustness reliability and obsolescence. Develop plans for modifications and/or upgrades as needed.
• Ensure all processes remain aligned with relevant requirements including Customers applicable portions of ASTM B209 Aluminum Association and ISO 9001:2015.
• Must be able to overcome obstacles and find reasonable resolutions to situations on a case-by-case basis as encountered.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering. (Mechanical Industrial or Metallurgical Engineering is preferred).
• Must have strong computer skills with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel PowerPoint Power BI) and SPC software.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present information clearly and persuasively to all levels of the organization.
• Must have the ability to manage multiple tasks and objectives.
• Hard skills in problem-solving and complex data analysis.
• Proven technical and process leadership skills to advise coach and develop other personnel to accomplish personal plant and corporate objectives.
• Desire to take initiative and develop a proactive relationship with employees through follow-up understanding their needs and encouraging a collaborative relationship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of aluminum rolling processes including hot rolling cold rolling annealing tension leveling slitting and painting of aluminum coils.
• 3 - 5 years of professional experience in process engineering.
• Background in Lean / Six Sigma principles (Green/Black Belt) and A3 problem solving methodology.
• Experience in maintaining compliance with ISO 9001:2015 ASTM and/or Aluminum Association standards.

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

The finishing mill in Lincolnshire Illinois is located 26 miles from Chicago and was established in 1966. The facility cold rolls aluminum to a desired gauges anneals to tempers levels and slits the rolled sheet to size. The facility which employees around 100 people produces mill finish coils for the building construction and transportation industries where its products are used for gutters siding soffits and facia. Lincolnshire is committed to the local community through its ongoing volunteer initiatives with a number of local organizations.

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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