Product Development Leader

Position Overview

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 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Position Overview

The Novelis North America Bay Minette Technical team is looking for a Product Development Leader to be located at our new facility in Bay Minette, Alabama. This role supports the Bay Minette facility and will be responsible for leading the process and product development team to create innovative and effective solutions for the Mus and our customers. The goal is to develop products and processes that meet customer needs and Bay Minette KPIs.

This position will report to the Technical Manager.

 

Responsibilities

• Be a role model for safety; demonstrating behaviors that align with the Novelis Safety Absolutes and Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture.
• Collaborate with engineering, product performance, production and sales teams to ensure products and processes are developed in accordance with customer and market needs.
• Manage process and product development projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
• Plan team development through training management, talent identification and development.
• Daily coordination with product development engineers, manufacturing unit process engineers, product engineers, and quality lab technicians.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or related field; Metallurgical engineering preferred
• 5 years in process and product development, engineering, materials, and production processes; experience in aluminum rolling process preferred
• Experience in resource/people management, laboratory environment & industrial metrology
• Must possess leadership skills to direct, lead and develop other personnel to accomplish personal, plant and corporate objectives.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to communicate with all levels in the organization.
• Ability to organize and prioritize feature work; must be able to lead multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail.
• Must be flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced and demanding environment.
• Solid computer skills with software applications proficiency, including Microsoft Office. Ability to learn new software programs quickly.

 

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 affordable. In 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!

Location Profile

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.

Disclaimer

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis