CAPEX Leader

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.

Novelis Bay Minette is seeking a CAPEX Leader to lead the site capital expenditure process for its new facility dedicated to aluminum reclamation and rolling operations in Bay Minette Alabama! This role owns thee sites capital investment program and supports both annual and long-range capital planning. It is responsible for managing the capital projects designated to it. The role ensures projects are delivered safely on time within budget and meet commissioning startup operational readiness and long-term reliability requirements.

The CAPEX Leader will engage multi-functionally with Engineering Operations Maintenance Reliability Procurement Finance EHS OEMs contractors and site leadership to convert business needs into executable capital projects and ensure completed assets are transitioned optimally into plant operations.

• Own and run the Bay Minette CAPEX process from project identification through approval execution commissioning handover and closeout.
• Maintain the master capital project portfolio including scope budget forecast committed cost actual spend schedule risks owner and project status.
• Support annual and multi-year capital planning for safety reliability environmental compliance infrastructure utilities production support and continuous improvement projects.
• Develop or support project charters scopes of work cost estimates business justifications schedules procurement strategies and risk assessments.
• Lead assigned capital projects through planning procurement installation commissioning startup support documentation and turnover to Operations and Maintenance.
• Partner with Procurement to develop bid packages evaluate proposals support contractor selection and handle vendor and contractor performance.
• Work with Finance to support capital approval routing spend tracking accruals forecasts cash flow capitalization timing and variance reporting.
• Ensure project execution aligns with Novelis safety expectations site EHS standards applicable codes environmental requirements and contractor management requirements.
• Coordinate asset handover requirements including SAP/CMMS asset setup BOMs PMs critical spares drawings manuals training and closeout documentation.
• Lead post-project reviews to confirm scope completion collect lessons learned validate business benefits and improve future capital project execution.
• Adhere to and support company quality environmental health & safety and certification standards including ISO 9001:2015 ISO 14001:2015 ISO 45001:2018 IATF 16949:2016 and ASI Certifications where applicable.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Construction Management Project Management Business or related technical field.
• 7 to 10 years of experience leading capital projects in manufacturing heavy industrial metals aluminum steel chemical energy automotive pulp and paper mining or similar environments.
• Strong knowledge of CAPEX budgeting project controls cost tracking forecasting procurement scheduling contractor coordination and project reporting.
• Experience developing project scopes business cases cost estimates schedules risk registers and execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to run numerous projects at different stages while maintaining safety cost schedule quality and customer alignment.
• Strong communication leadership problem-solving planning and decision-making skills.

• Experience in aluminum rolling recycling remelt casting hot mill cold mill finishing or metals manufacturing.
• Prior experience supporting a greenfield plant startup major plant expansion or large industrial construction project.
• PMP PE CAPM Six Sigma or other project management / engineering certification.
• Experience with SAP Prometheus MS Project Primavera P6 Power BI Excel-based project controls or similar systems.
• Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance asset management spare parts strategy PM development Management of Change and commissioning processes.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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

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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