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Process Engineer/Technologist

Novelis
Berea, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/5/2025
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 Berea, KY team is seeking a Process Engineer/ Technologist. This position is responsible for the tactical aspects and day-to-day needs of process control and product quality at Berea. This is accomplished by interacting with and supporting Operations personnel in all departments as well as the Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability and Automation departments on a continual basis, monitoring process performance, prioritizing process development projects and activities with technical expertise in areas of process and product quality control and development.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure self and others maintain a safe working environment
  • Support the EHS practices and policies
  • Create EHS incident reports when necessary
  • Perform BBS observations monthly to be aware of at-risk behaviors within our process and to help eliminate them.
  • Ensure that EHS is always considered in any kind of equipment decisions
  • Assist Process team in customer needs at Hot Mill
  • Monitor Day to day chemistry activities
  • Assess chemistry performance monthly
  • Improve chemistry consistency
  • Assist procurement in managing alloy inventory
  • Monitor salt flux usage from an inventory and quality performance
  • Along with technicians, assist operations in monitoring performance of equipment using process data from machine centers
  • Identify and scope projects that will improve overall plant performance
  • Handle high level and tactical process projects when applicable
  • Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly monitoring of key process variables
  • Provide analysis report and recommendation
  • Compile, trend and improve plan metrics related to quality and customer performance and review with leaders that we are looking at the correct metrics as indicators of our plants performance.
  • Support quality incident corrective and preventative actions related to incidents.
  • Takes initiative in continuous learning and development within functional area
  • Know the latest standard methodologies to help determine if changes need to be made.
  • Support quality and efficiency improvement projects.
  • Lead and participate in multi-functional teams
  • Benchmark with internal and external customers
  • Collaborate on R&D Projects and with MMP & TAG
  • Create/ Update work instructions
  • Train employees on updated instructions
  • Conduct Layered Process Audits (LPA)
  • Perform root cause analysis in a structured way to solve problems and non-conformances.
  • Support and implement when assigned corrective actions in relevant processes resulting from process issues.

Qualifications

  • Customer service oriented and ability to work issues to resolution
  • Ability to effectively work individually or as a member of a multi-functional team
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization
  • Ability to organize and prioritize; 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
  • Must be willing and able to travel to customer locations and other Novelis facilities as needed.
  • Solid computer skills with software applications proficiency, including Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelors' degree in Metallurgy or related science
  • Aluminum industry experience
  • SAP knowledge
  • Ability to build relationships with outside vendors and internal collaborators
  • Completed Green Belt training, (or commitment to successfully complete that training within a year)

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’ Berea facility is located in Berea Kentucky near Lexington. With 150 employees the recycling facility processes approximately 20 percent of all aluminum cans recycled in the United States each year – more than 750 million pounds. Berea is best known for its art festivals historic restaurants and buildings and as the home to Berea College and nearby Eastern Kentucky University. The Kentucky Artisan Center hosts a wide variety of works by Kentucky artisans. In 2019 Novelis was named one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management. The Berea team provides direct donations to more than 20 local organizations and schools including United Way Sustainable Berea Madison County Schools Berea College and Habitat for Humanity.

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

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