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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.

Position Overview

Join Novelis’ Technology R&D organization as an Entry-Level Engineer and become a key contributor to the development of cutting‑edge flat rolled aluminum products. As part of the Metallurgy team, you will work on innovative projects that enhance product performance, improve processing efficiency, and advance recyclability. Collaborating with manufacturing operations, customers, and external organizations, you will help transform scientific ideas into practical, impactful solutions. This role offers exciting opportunities to work on diverse projects, travel to Novelis plants and regional technology centers, and engage with customers. You’ll gain hands‑on experience in product and process development while building a strong foundation for future growth in technical and leadership roles. Be part of a team driving the success of Novelis’ global businesses in automotive, aerospace, beverage can, and specialty markets.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize Safety: Demonstrate a personal commitment to laboratory safety by adhering to Novelis safety rules and processes, ensuring safety remains the top priority.
• Support Product and Process Development: Contribute to the development of aluminum flat‑rolled products by optimizing processes such as ingot homogenization, hot and cold rolling, heat treatment, and quenching to optimize microstructures for specific properties and performance metrics.
• Assist Alloy Development: Learn and apply advanced material characterization techniques to support alloy development activities.
• Manage Priorities: Independently balance multiple work streams supporting project leaders to meet deadlines and deliverables.
• Execute laboratory and pilot‑scale plans to support development activities and assist plant‑scale trials to ensure operational readiness for new products and processes.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work seamlessly with metallurgy and laboratory teams.
• Perform Experiments and Investigations: Plan, execute, submit LIMS requests, compile results from experiments, plant trials, and product performance investigations for research projects.
• Drive Innovation: Create intellectual property to differentiate Novelis from competitors and maintain its leadership position.
• Enhance R&D Capabilities: Contribute to improving methods, techniques, equipment, and quality within the R&D organization.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering
• Less than 1-year of industrial experience
• Understanding of microstructure‑property relationships in metals and alloys

Preferred qualifications

• A passion for research and development in aluminum flat‑rolled products and processes.
• Hands‑on experience designing and executing experimental test plans.
• Familiarity with sheet metal processing operations.
• Metallurgical characterization and qualification testing skills - Knowledge of computer‑aided design and data analysis tools (e.g., Python, MATLAB, SolidWorks) and a desire to master CALPHAD software packages (e.g., Thermo‑Calc, JMatPro, FactSage, Pandat).
• Understanding of project management principles. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team‑oriented environment.
• Familiarity with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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

Novelis’ Global Research and Technology Center located in Kennesaw Georgia within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area is a cutting‑edge full‑service research and technology hub that employs approximately 200 people including world‑class engineers metallurgists chemists scientists technologists and technicians. The facility includes state‑of‑the‑art lab equipment and a diverse mix of product pilot lines that bring innovative solutions to customers in the automotive beverage can and specialty markets. Kennesaw provides a diverse and family‑friendly place to live with countless museums cultural opportunities and educational institutions. Novelis is committed to the Kennesaw community and supports a number of local charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity as well as FIRST Robotics aimed at encouraging young people to pursue the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields in order to spur the next generation of scientists and innovators.

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.

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