Engineering, Maintenance, and Reliability Leader

Position Overview

The primary role of the EMRA Leader is to ensure that the Greensboro facility's assets, including reliability personnel are capable of meeting our customer needs, on a sustainable and accountable basis. The EMRA Leader must continually evaluate and recommend new or developing technologies, which may help improve the EHS, quality, operational excellence, customer centricity and cost performance.  The EMRA Leader will develop methods, procedures and people to support the optimization of the facilities processes.  They are responsible for developing, submitting and managing an annual and five (5) year capital plan which supports the sustainability of the Greensboro facility's business objectives.  As such they are responsible for the reliability of our capital assets.  This position ensures effective equipment design to meet EHS, legal and operational requirements as well as effective maintenance practices to sustain and to improve the level of functionality required by the business. This individual will also be accountable for the education of the reliability workforce in the disciplines of Engineering/Reliability and will interact with all functions, both internal and external, to ensure that the engineering/reliability needs of the business are met.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Engineering, Maintenance, and Reliability Leader will organization practices and ensure compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety rules, regulations and practices.  As well as lead the effort on at least one of the Novelis EHS performance standards.

• Direct the organization in implementing and practicing good safe working practices, through compliance with all federal, state, local and Novelis programs, procedures and regulations.
• Ensure that all engineering design efforts meet applicable standards, methods and practices such as NEC, NFPA, ISO, OSHA, EPA, UL, etc.
• Support the BBS process by actively facilitating and coaching all of the members of the EMRA organization to engage in BBS observations.
• Provide support to the plant's effort on Novelis EHS Performance Standards.
• Maintain good housekeeping and safe working conditions at all times.
• Provide engineered solutions to mitigate SIFs.
• Support long-term strategic initiatives.

Support the Process Center in process optimization.

• Utilize the facility's internal and corporate resources, along with third parties, to develop the engineering knowledge and skills required to continually enhance and optimize the processes performance.
• Drive improvement activities in support of the plant's annual and strategic plans.
• Provide leadership and guidance to ensure engineering/reliability activities related to process center improvement are supported and funded appropriately, to ensure they are completed in a timely manner, on budget and sustained.

Lead the Reliability organization in the development, implementation, and execution of the Greensboro Reliability roadmap.

• Ensure engineering support, expertise and guidance is given to the Reliability organization to develop an appropriate Facility Reliability Master Plan.
• Interact with operators, mechanics, electricians, planner, process leaders, shift specialists and reliability leaders on a regular basis to ensure the effectiveness of the PM/PdM system.
• Ensure reliability is an integral part of all projects and process optimization activities.
• Assist the engineering/reliability organization in coordinating and performing Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for all significant failures in the facility.
• When new projects and/or changes are made to existing assets, involve the reliability organization to help ensure the appropriate training, communication, documentation and PM/PdMs are available and/or are created.

Continually evaluate the facility's assets to ensure they are capable of meeting the sustained needs ot the Can business and its customers.

• Assess the current assets, relative to its life cycle and capability in achieving the Can business plan and recommend appropriate equipment changes to achieve and sustain it.
• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or new technologies which could differentiate Novelis in the marketplace through product quality, shorter lead times, cost, reduction in environmental footprint, energy consumption, improved safety and health, etc.
• Develop and implement an annual and five (5) year capital plan which supports the Can business annual plans, ensuring the sustainability of the business.

Development and facilitation of appropriate education/training programs to support the further development of the facility's engineers and reliability personnel.

• Identify and provide for the extended educational needs such as workshops, classes, lectures, discussion groups, etc. to support the EMRA organization.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to members of the EMRA team.
• Review and develop, in conjunction with HR, appropriate succession plans and hiring procedures and practices for the engineering organization, including Job Descriptions.
• Develop a training program for new personnel coming in to the EMRA team.

Maintenance

• Coordinate the utilization of available equipment and human resources to manufacture products at the most economical cost consistent with meeting quality standards and preserving employee and equipment safety.
• Direct, develop and train personnel to establish a Plant organization that effectively and continually functions smoothly and efficiently, with individuals capable of handing greater responsibilities.
• Coaching an mentoring with craftspeople through the skill assessment process will be required.
• Help establish and implement maintenance, operational, and capital budgets along with performance objectives, development plans, goals and programs to contribute to maximization of return on investment of the unit.

Storeroom

• Support the efforts in the areas of EHS to ensure the Storeroom works safely, maintains to housekeeping standards, and successfully completes all required training and education in EHS.
• Works with the full EMRA team including the Storeroom Coordinator, to ensure all BOMs (Build of Materials) are created and maintained, criticality ratings are managed, and inventories are set and managed according to the Greensboro plant's operational requirements.
• Ensure that all assets under the Stores' control are maintained in good condition and ready when called upon.
• Drive improvements based on the KPIs and metrics designed to do so.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation or Mechanical Engineering required.
• PE certification preferred

EXPERIENCE

• 5-8 years practical experience in engineering or manufacturing operations preferred
• 3-5 years of work experience in the field of engineering in a management or leadership role required
• Manufacturing process experience with strong fundamental knowledge of both the equipment and process in recycling/casting preferred.
• Industrial manufacturing or aluminum experience strongly preferred

SKILLS

• Effective organizational skills and ability to work with various levels of the organization
• Excellent leadership skills and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to manage conflict in a direct, yet respectful manner
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload; must be able to manage multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail
• Must be flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in computer software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project
• Fundamental knowledge of AutoCAD, with the ability to make minor changes to drawings
• Ability to troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis on equipment and process issues, related to process equipment
• Proficient in the fundamentals of reliability such that the position can help establish appropriate PMs and PdMs for process improvement
• Understanding of advanced engineering and diagnostic tools such as Finite Element Analysis, vibrations analysis, lubrication analysis, FFT, etc.
• Excellent ability to manage all types of projects and administer the Capital Expenditure Budget
• Fundamental understanding of financial analysis associated with project justifications

Location Profile

Novelis’ Greensboro facility is located in Greensboro Georgia. With 140 employees it is the first stand-alone used beverage can recycling facility in the company now responsible for pioneering a majority of Novelis’ recycling technologies. Residents enjoy nearby Lake Oconee which includes a number of golf communities. In addition Athens Georgia – home to the University of Georgia and hundreds of cultural and sporting events each year – is a short drive away. Novelis Greensboro actively promotes safety recycling and STEM education through several local community organizations and in 2018 the Boys and Girls Club named Novelis its Business Partner of the Year.

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