Process Engineer Leader - Novelis Davenport Manufacturing Facility
Davenport, IA 52802
About the Job
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.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:Position Overview:
The Novelis Davenport, IA team is seeking a Process Engineer Leader. This role is responsible for providing advanced business process management expertise in process and product quality control, developing new processes/products/practices, applying statistics, and identifying and resolving customer problems, including technical service to customers.
Responsibilities:
- Apply communication skills to establish partnerships across the site to achieve plant performance goals.
- Work a flexible schedule, including occasional weekend duty as necessary to handle facility performance.
- Represent core area of responsibility while incorporating a more extensive scope of vision into their considerations. Local solutions with broad positive implications.
- Resolve customer complaints (often involving providing technical assistance and advice to the customer.)
- Assess and resolve process deviations that lead to decreased quality, utilization, and throughput.
- Develop and implement projects ranging in scope from near-immediate needs to long-term critical initiatives.
- Coordinate employees and resources associated with projects and daily activities at all levels of the site and inclusive of resources external to the site. This specifically includes personnel over which the incumbent has no direct control.
- Provide day-to-day support vital to the manufacturing unit to obtain departmental objectives for safety, quality, cost, and recovery.
- Establish and maintain operating practices, control plans, and quality standards.
- Provide feedback on business decisions to ensure production, sales, and marketing decisions are taken with full knowledge of their technological implications.
- Develop new processes and modify the existing ones to improve product quality and meet customer specifications at a minimum cost with uncompromised safety.
- Contribute to customer satisfaction by prompt and accurate investigation and resolution of complaints with sustainable solutions.
- Contribute to resolving in-plant product and process problems to meet the Manufacturing Unit's cost and production effectiveness objectives. Safety and Lean design are central to this functionality.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in a technical field, Engineering, Metallurgy, or Materials Science preferred.
- Five (5) or more years of experience in Process or Product Quality, aluminum industry preferred.
- Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects. Preferably in relevant aluminum metallurgical assignments of increasing complexity and magnitude.
- Experience leading and mentoring others. Supervising direct reports is preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Must be able to balance multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail.
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certification is preferred
- Experience with 8D problem solving techniques
- Experience understanding of Management of Change and identifying areas of improvement for Safety, Quality, and Production within your immediate department as well as the plant
- Desire to take the initiative to own and drive Process Quality in alignment with the facility’s WCM® excellence
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!
Disclaimer:
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Location Profile:Davenport IA has been a key player in the aluminum industry for over 11 decades. Novelis employs more than 300 people in the Davenport community across two facilities: a finishing mill and a casting facility. Novelis is an active and engaged community partner in Davenport teaming up with organizations such as Toys for Tots and Hope at the BRICK House. Novelis is also a member of the Good Neighbor Project in Davenport.
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.