Senior Process Safety Engineer Jobs in Mobile, AL

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.

The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking Process Development Engineer to work in the Bay Minette facility. The Process Development Engineer will develop and implement new products and processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs within Bay Minette aluminum sheet plant. In this task the Process Development Engineer supports, guides and is advised by Bay Minette Manufacturing, Novelis Commercial / Technical Support Teams, Novelis Labs and the aluminum sheet customers to ensure all products meet the customer’s requirements and that new and existing products integrate well within the Bay Minette manufacturing system. The Process Development Engineer provides a high degree of responsiveness to customer product issues and opportunities, presenting a positive, effective face for Novelis Bay Minette in the marketplace. The Process Development Engineer expands the boundaries of the current limits of the aluminum sheet marketplace, contributing to new opportunities and the identification or formation of new desirable markets for Bay Minette products.

Responsibilities

• Actively support Novelis core initiatives around Environment, Health, Safety and Quality.
• Development, introduction and validation of new products and processes in the aluminum sheet marketplace for the Bay Minette manufacturing system.
• This key function involves forming close and supportive working relationships with the entire internal Bay Minette manufacturing team, the external Novelis commercial, technical service, laboratory teams and the customers, to transition new products from development to full scale manufacturing.
• Development of aluminum sheet product lines to improve either their internal performance to Bay Minette or their external performance at the customer.
• Active coordination, prioritization and support of the metallographic laboratory’s analysis and assessment of defective materials.
• Lead and/or participate in problem solving activities directed at resolving issues with products and/or processes in the aluminum sheet marketplace. Bring specialized skills to such inquiries including metallographic, statistical and customer process knowledge.
• Support the development and improvement of product masters used to manufacture products out of Bay Minette.
• Promptly and effectively respond to customer, commercial team, technical service team or internal teams enquires on the sites’ current product manufacturing / quality capabilities, product manufacturing histories or on issues potentially linked to Bay Minette produced metal.
• Provide quality incident support at customer locations or the Bay Minette side.
• Maintain and effectively communicate critical metrics and customer information within the Technical group and to a broader Bay Minette/Novelis audience.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, or other related fields.
• Minimum 3 years experience in relevant aluminum fabrication.
• Strong interpersonal skills with effective oral and written communication skills.
• Able to resolve problems efficiently.
• A demonstrated ability to perform basic metallographic assessments of defects.
• Effectively use statistics and/or statistical process control.
• A proven track record to effectively lead and manage projects involving multiple people at multiple locations with potentially multiple cultures involved.
• Work remotely from their base location with minimal external direction.
• A demonstrated high level of personal initiative.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong metallurgical and/or aluminum background.

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' 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.

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