Electrical Engineer (f/m/d)

Position Overview

Who we are 

Novelis is driven by its purpose to shape a sustainable world together. 

 

As a global leader in innovative products and services and the world's largest recycler of aluminum, we partner with customers in the automotive, beverage can, aerospace and specialties industries to deliver solutions that improve the benefits of balanced lightweight aluminum.  

 

We have a coordinated network of technically sophisticated rolling and recycling plants as well as foundries across 31 facilities in 9 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia with 13,250 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA. 

 

Our customers include some of the largest and best-known brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Ford, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus, Boeing, Nespresso, Samsung, and others. In addition, Novelis is leading the industry with its sustainability and recycling efforts.  

 

Become part of our mission to create a sustainable world and start as soon as possible at our location in Latchford as: 

Electrical Engineer (f/m/d) 

Responsibilities & Qualifications

What awaits you: 

• Support and help deliver all Electrical & Automation activities across site 

• Evolve the culture of Reliability and support site Electrical & Automation systems 

• Ensure reliability of our manufacturing processes by stabilising the performance of physical assets, defining, and setting standards for the proper management 

• Care of the assets and installation while ensuring optimum levels of availability 

• Support CAPEX & Revenue projects 

• Responsible for delivering Reliability, Site services, improving process performance through OEE improvements 

• Support the day-to-day plant activities to ensure that the processes are reliable 

• Liaison with operations to develop timely plans to reduce maintenance cost and impact to the process 

• Internal & external stakeholder management 

• Preventive Maintenance of all Electrical & Automation Control systems 

• Obsolescence: Identifying-aging assets planning upgrades based on OEM life Cycle (PLC, HMI, Controls & Instrumentation)  

• Ensure correct use and feedback through SAP to create history and working knowledge of the process 

• Control & delivery of 'Shutdown' maintenance plans & on time Execution  

• Experience of Root Cause Analysis and selecting strong countermeasures to prevent re-occurrence of issues 

 

How you convince us: 

• You have minimum of HNC (preferably BEng Degree / HND) in an Electrical Engineering discipline and at least 5 years of Engineering experience 

• Strong Electrical, Control, Automation, and Instrumentation skills with knowledge of 3 phase LV systems and HV distribution 

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, & Outlook  

• IOSH Managing Safely Certificate  

• SAP knowledge is preferable   

• Ability to read Electrical, Automation & P&ID pneumatic drawings 

• Working knowledge of CAD and Rockwell PLC is desirable 

• Knowledge of High Voltage Network distribution is desirable 

 

What Novelis offers you: 

 

#leisuretime: Time for personal activities and relaxation is essential! Enjoy a 37-hour work week and 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays 

#pensionplan: Your future matters to us! Enjoy a company pension scheme with matching contributions by Novelis, ensuring your financial security 

#timeout: Ready to fulfill your dream of travelling the world or taking an extended break? We support you with our sabbatical offer! 

#health: We prioritize your security and well-being! Benefit from our employer liability coverage and occupational health, including frequent check-ups. Enjoy our Employee Assistance Programme with a telephone number for external advice 

#bikeleasing: Need a fresh breeze, not just at work? Take advantage of the bike leasing program for a refreshing ride 

#development: Eager to enhance your knowledge and skills? Our individual training programs are designed to help you reach your full potential 

Have we caught your interest? 

Then become part of our team! We are looking forward to your application! 

You can apply easily with your resume via our application system in less than 5 minutes. 

 

Please note that postal applications cannot be processed and considered. 

We live diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity.

Location Profile

The Novelis Latchford plant a suburb of Warrington Cheshire in England employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK.

The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsoring health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program “Every Can Counts” to actively promote can recycling across Europe.