Electrical Engineer Lead

Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling producing an estimated 19 percent of the worlds flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace beverage can automotive and high-end specialty markets.

Headquartered in Atlanta Georgia USA Novelis has approximately 11600 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is investing $2.5 billion to build a new low-carbon recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette Alabama. The highly advanced facility will serve growing demand for aluminum beverage can sheet in North America. The new facility will also serve the automotive market where aluminum is the fastest growing material as automakers make plans to achieve their sustainability goals. It will aim to be net carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2 be powered primarily by renewable energy use recycled water and be a zero-waste facility.

The Novelis Bay Minette AL team is seeking an Electrical Engineer to work on site with our Finishing Unit. The person in this role will work with the Finishing Mill EMRA (Engineering Maintenance Reliability and Automation) Leader. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading electrical engineering and providing support to reinforce the achievement of the plants safety quality sustainability and budget objectives. This position will be responsible for the activities of others related to electrical engineering and keep current with the constantly evolving technology balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in automated systems and methods.

This role will be a key member of the project team for new facility as well as ready the plant for operations.

Responsibilities

• Embrace the Novelis Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Open Build Trust Say Anything Own It and Be Authentic!
• Own the plant effort on Safe Work Practices and optimal design for EHS
• Be responsible for the full scope of the Electrical engineering project including budget control schedule and compliance with safety environmental and sustainability requirements to assure performance against expectations
• Own the discussions on equipment design detailed engineering with the Mill OEMs and third parties
• Coordinate the Electrical build commissioning and acceptance tests of a new World Class Manufacturing Finishing Mill in this facility
• Travel locally and abroad to perform inspections technical meetings and receive training
• Meet assigned project commitment timelines and deliverables
• Communicate regularly with project team members to provide status updates as needed or to scope projects
• Elaborate scope of project analysis technical and commercial offer and submit purchase request for approval
• Collaborate with the team in order to drive operational readiness of the plant production commissioning (elaborate and deliver training elaborate maintenance plans FMEA fine tune the equipment and process for optimal performance)
• Develop the technical team on hard and soft skills
• Provide a strong Electrical understanding of process and components involved in their equipment
• Develop and define the Key Performance Indicators (Uptime MTTR MTBF PM Completion etc.) and create lead and communicate the monthly dashboard for Electrical reliability
• Develop and refine the Electrical preventive/predictive maintenance program in a systematic professional manner coordinating all efforts with operations engineering and the Electrical team to ensure the program is properly approved and endorsed
• Provide administration control and analysis of all data records and equipment histories to continually review and refine PM/PdM frequencies
• Coordinate and provide appropriate Electrical training on PM/PdM techniques for selected Electrical maintenance and engineering personnel on appropriate topics
• Coordinate and perform Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for all electrical significant failures in the facility
• Assist in troubleshooting advanced analysis and identify areas of potential advancements in the processes equipment and facilities to achieve increased profitability through reduced costs increased efficiency improved quality increase production output and optimized equipment uptime
• Perform Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as specified by the Reliability Master Plan for the facility
• Work closely with the Automation Reliability & Engineering Managers develop conceptual and functional requirements for short- and long-term process and equipment development (facility planning) consistent with the business plan
• Technically lead maintenance technicians and engineers as needed- to resolve and prevent maintenance and engineering problems and to develop training programs on processes and equipment for the maintenance staffs
• Develop and be a great partner with suppliers and other technical resources inside and outside of the Site and Company
• Assignment to an on-call rotation to provide after-hours and weekend support as required to assist maintenance in the troubleshooting and resolution of issues having an immediate impact on plant performance. This can involve providing direction/mentorship remotely and/or onsite
• Support the management of the CAPEX and OPEX budget
• Repetitive failures are identified and the PM is refined by dynamic and relevant review of predictive and other inspections analysis of equipment histories maintenance cost reports and failure reports review of service and inspection records and analysis of work order data
• Contribute engineering expertise to project work and selection of replacement or new equipment to help ensure consistency and standardization of components and ease of maintenance
• Constantly search for innovations and continuous improvement.
• Prepare and present robust capital expenditure estimates schedules and requests including sound financial analysis/justification for management approval
• Review Site equipment and technology for robustness reliability and obsolescence. Develop plans for modifications and/or upgrades as needed
• Influence regional and/or global decision-making by preparing and communicating technical information to senior management on matters with significant business impact such as regional/multi-site capital expenditures or regional process/product improvements

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 8 years of dynamic experience.
• Work experience in the field of factory electrical engineering
• Knowledge of electric motor and drive systems
• Experience with design and program logic for PLCs and HMIs (Siemens preferred).
• Methodical equipment problem-solving.
• Good project management skills
• Result oriented and decision-making capability.
• Ability to advise mentor and develop other personnel to accomplish personal plant and corporate objectives
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization
• Desire to take initiative and develop a pro-active relationship with employees through follow-up understanding their needs and encouraging a collaborative relationship
• Able to travel up to 50% (North America and Internationally) in the first 3 years. After that period the travel will be less than 10%.
• Sponsorship for the United State of America VISA is not offered for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aluminum Finishing process experience
• Previous experience on large capital project
• Proficiency in Historian (iba/PDA systems).
• Basic understanding of capabilities for controls and servo systems and an understanding of maintenance procedures and principles of equipment reliability
• Experienced in trouble shooting Electrical systems including pneumatics tooling issues measurement feedback systems and basic design robustness
• Lean Six Sigma

Novelis newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.

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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