What are the responsibilities and job description for the L2 Automation Engineer position at Novelis?
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 Bay Minette, AL team is seeking a L2 Automation Engineer to work in the Bay Minette facility. This facility will have cast house, rolling, and finishing areas within the fully integrated aluminum mill. The position will play a crucial role in enhancing safety, solving technical problems, and leading project teams. This position requires collaboration with site, regional, and global teams to implement innovative solutions and support the introduction of Industry 4.0.
Responsibilities
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 in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family’s well-being:
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:
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Position Overview
The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking a L2 Automation Engineer to work in the Bay Minette facility. This facility will have cast house, rolling, and finishing areas within the fully integrated aluminum mill. The position will play a crucial role in enhancing safety, solving technical problems, and leading project teams. This position requires collaboration with site, regional, and global teams to implement innovative solutions and support the introduction of Industry 4.0.
Responsibilities
- Embrace the Novelis Safety Absolutes to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Authentic, Say Anything, Be Open and Built Trust
- Recognize and prevent safety issues, actively engage in broader regional or global EHS initiatives, and participate in the development of standards for EHS initiatives
- Partner with site, regional, and global teams to collect project requirements and translate feedback into project team actions.
- Identify and address customer or operational problems, propose solutions, lead project teams to solve the problems, ensure alignment across geographies or operating areas, and report findings.
- Manage interpersonal dynamics in project groups/teams to ensure project team meets assigned commitments and influence site decision-making by presenting technical information related to Automation Level 2 Systems
- Possess high-level knowledge of site Utilities, Recycling and Remelt, Rolling to Finishing processes/applications, and assess the viability of technologies, processes, or methods to recommend broadly implemented solutions.
- Support Industry 4.0 and act as a liaison between Shop Floor, MES, and Global Information Technology groups
- Innovate and develop new techniques and best processes by enabling effective utilization of data applied to upper-level systems (MES and Level 3 Supply Chain)
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams to tackle problems from multiple dimensions and drive them towards customer-centric solutions
- Maintain technical contacts, translate complex data for teams, compile reports, identify training needs, and implement knowledge transfer initiatives
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Engineering or a four (4) year degree in a related technical field (STEM).
- 7 years of progressive experience in programming languages (preferred C#, PowerShell).
- Solid understanding of relational database query language (preferred Microsoft SQL) and interface systems.
- Experience in the implementation and support of systems integration (automation systems) and communication methods standardization (telegrams and middleware).
- Knowledge of Historians (preferably iba and/or OSISoft-PI)
- Experience in the Metals Rolling/Fabrication Industry.
- Knowledge of MES systems.
- Knowledge of Windows Operating Systems configuration
- Experience in using continuous integration and development. (Azure DevOps, Git)
- Frequent standing, walking and sitting
- Occasional below waist level work, climbing, balancing, carrying, reaching over 15” away from the body, reaching above shoulder, fine motor skills, use of forceful motion
- Occasional push/pull, and lifting up to 50 lbs
- Ability to meet the physical requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability and willingness to work at heights
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 in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family’s well-being:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health savings accounts – Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
- Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
- 401(k) savings plan with company match
- Retirement savings plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange
- Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
- Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
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:
- Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis
- Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis
