Director, Engineering & Operations Support at Novelis in US-GA-Atlanta

Job description

• 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 North America team is seeking a Director, Engineering & Operations Support to build and lead a brand-new organization from the ground up. As Director, Engineering & Operations Support, you will report to the Senior Vice President, Operations, North America, and lead a talented team of senior engineers, with the Manager, Quality and Manager, Engineering & Reliability reporting directly to this role. You will provide regional leadership for strategic engineering projects, reliability and maintenance, and quality systems and processes across our North American manufacturing plants — shaping the function's direction and playing a pivotal role in achieving our operational and financial targets. We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on leader who thrives on the challenge of standing up a new team and is energized by the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on our organization.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new, centralized engineering, reliability, maintenance, and quality organization — supporting manufacturing plants, customers, and tolling operations across North America.
• Ensure projects and technical activities align with environmental, health, and safety requirements, engineering controls, regulatory obligations, and management-of-change expectations.
• Establish a transparent process to assess, prioritize, and deploy technical resources based on safety, customer impact, operational risk, business value, and regional priorities.
• Provide governance and technical oversight for feasibility studies, front-end engineering, project development, execution, commissioning, startup, and operational ramp-up.
• Lead the resolution of significant plant and tolling quality issues through structured root-cause analysis, stronger controls, consistent practices, and prevention of recurrence.
• Advance reliability and asset performance through equipment strategy, failure elimination, preventive and predictive maintenance, outage support, and disciplined technical problem solving.
• Develop technical talent, strengthen standards and knowledge transfer, align multi-functional collaborators, and communicate recommendations, portfolio updates, and material risks to senior leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• 15 or more years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing engineering, quality, reliability, maintenance, capital projects, or a closely related operations rigor.
• Experience leading managers and multidisciplinary technical teams in a multi-site, matrixed manufacturing environment.
• Experience with project governance, feasibility and front-end engineering, capital justification, supplier management, and safe project execution.
• Broad knowledge of reliability fundamentals, rolling process fundamentals, advanced engineering and diagnostic analysis, and financial analysis for project return on investment.
• Strong engineering judgment, systems thinking, prioritization, and the ability to influence, negotiate, and align senior partners across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, including standing up, restructuring, or scaling a new function or team.
• Proven experience directly managing other managers or leaders, in addition to broader technical teams.
• Working knowledge of quality management systems and methodologies (e.g., ISO 9001, Six Sigma, root-cause/CAPA analysis).
• Proven ability to communicate with, present to, and influence executive leadership.
• Advanced degree (MBA or Master's in Engineering).
• Operational leadership experience.
• Experience managing complex projects and capital expenditure budgets.
• Experience in aluminum or rolled/cast metal production, heavy industrial, automotive, or continuous-process manufacturing.
• Six Sigma or Lean certification (e.g., Black Belt).
• Track record of building or reorganizing engineering and/or quality functions.

Skills

Required

• Strong engineering judgment
• Systems thinking
• Prioritization

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 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