Electrical Engineer - Hot Mill

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 and is investing billions to build a new low-carbon recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama.

The highly advanced facility will serve growing demand for aluminum beverage can sheet in North America. The new facility will also serve the automotive market, where aluminum is the fastest growing material as automakers make plans to achieve their sustainability goals. It will aim to be net carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2, be powered primarily by renewable energy, use recycled water and be a zero-waste facility.

The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking a Hot Mill Electrical Engineer to work on site. This role will report Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability & Automation (EMRA) Leader of the hiring Manufacturing Unit. The ideal candidate will be responsible for electrical engineering and providing support to contribute to the achievement of the plant’s safety, quality, sustainability and budget objectives. This position will guide and the activities of and keep current with the constantly evolving technology, balancing it with the needs of the operations to bring forth improvements in automated systems and methods.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Adopt the Novelis Safety Principles to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Open, Build Trust, Say Anything and Be Authentic!
• Participate in discussions on equipment design, detailed engineering with the Mill OEMs and third parties.
• Support equipment installation and commissioning.
• After the Hot Mill startup, support continuing operations through engagement in maintenance and reliability activities.
• Involvement in ongoing sustaining capital improvement activities.
• Recommend new technologies for upgrades and new projects aligned with Novelis proposal to lead key markets and be reference in the market.
• Support maintenance and engineering budget/cost.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum Five years of progressive experience as an electrical engineer in an industrial setting.
• Knowledge of electric motor and drive systems. Previous experience in MV and LV drives performing drive tune-up or extensive and sophisticated troubleshooting and large synchronous and DC motors (Power > 3000HP)
• Experience with L1 automation systems (PLC) and basic with HMIs (Siemens preferred).
• Ability to manage projects.
• Knowledge in reliability concepts, particularly RCA and FMEA
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization.
• Support and improve a culture based on accountability, continuous improvement and results driven by creating and adopting Key Metrics and annual goals.
• Able to travel up to 30% (North America and Internationally) in the first 1.5 years. After that period, the travel will be less than 10%.
• Sponsorship for the United State of America VISA is not offered for this position.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Steel or Aluminum Rolling process experience.
• Proven understanding of rolling mill basic controls such as thickness, tension, and profile controls as well dynamics involved in mill stand rolling mechanics.
• Understanding of all major component found in a rolling mill.
• Intermediate knowledge of hydraulic systems.
• Previous experience on large capital projects.
• Ability to Influence the organization toward continuous improvement and loss elimination.
  
  

What We Offer:

Benefits

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
  
  

At Novelis, we believe our culture of collaboration is what makes us great, and we would love for you to consider building a career with us! 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.

Location Profile

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 and become fully operational in 2025. 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.

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