Sr. Maintenance Leader

Position Overview

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.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Novelis Terre Haute, Indiana, team is seeking a dynamic and experienced Sr. Maintenance Leader for its container and foil rolling and finishing facility. Reporting to the EMRA Leader, this position provides education, training, leadership, and direction to the facility’s electrical and mechanical maintenance workforce.

 

The Sr. Maintenance Leader directs maintenance resources to optimize the reliability of the plant’s pneumatic, hydraulic, coolant, roll, bearing, cylinder, crane, and structural systems. This role assesses preventive and predictive maintenance needs, recommends effective strategies, and allocates personnel to improve equipment reliability and plant performance. The position also coordinates maintenance support for advanced troubleshooting of mechanical and electrical systems while actively reinforcing the plant’s safety processes.

Responsibilities

• Use facility, corporate, and third-party resources to strengthen personal and workforce capabilities that drive continuous process improvement and optimization.
• Support machine centers by optimizing workforce scheduling and maintenance effectiveness in alignment with plant strategic plans.
• Provide leadership and guidance for machine-center improvement activities, ensuring initiatives are completed on time, within budget, and sustained over the long term.
• Collaborate regularly with operators, mechanics, electricians, planners, process leaders, shift specialists, and engineers to maintain and improve the effectiveness of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Ensure reliability principles are incorporated into all projects, equipment changes, and process-optimization activities.
• Partner with the reliability organization to coordinate and conduct Root Cause Failure Analyses for significant machine-center failures and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Engage the maintenance organization in new projects and asset modifications to ensure appropriate training, communication, technical documentation, and preventive and predictive maintenance requirements are developed before implementation.
• Evaluate and recommend process improvements and emerging technologies that strengthen Novelis’ competitive position through improved product quality, shorter lead times, lower costs, reduced environmental impact and energy consumption, and enhanced employee safety and health.
• Actively support the annual and five-year capital plans and complete assigned projects in alignment with the plant’s annual and strategic objectives to promote long-term business sustainability.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance employees to strengthen technical capability, accountability, and performance.
• Adhere to and support company quality, environmental, health & safety, and certification standards, including ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, IATF 16949:2016, and ASI Certifications, where applicable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology from an accredited university or institution.
• 5 years of heavy industrial work experience and/or maintenance leadership experience.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to collaborate with all levels in the organization
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize responsibility; able to balance multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail; flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office software, including but not limited to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and Project
• Experience using computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), preferably SAP
• Project management experience, budget management, scheduling, coordinating contractors, and execution

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

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Location Profile

Novelis’ Terre Haute facility is located in the center of the Wabash Valley about an hour drive from Indianapolis. The region is named for the nearby Wabash River. The facility’s 175 employees produce world-class light gauge aluminum that is used in the production of aluminum foil containers and household foil. Through the Novelis Neighbor program employees enjoy long-term partnerships with the United Way Habitat for Humanity Salvation Army and many other nonprofits providing support in Safety STEM and Recycling. Home to five higher education institutions Terre Haute offers a host of cultural and recreational activities.

 

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.

Disclaimer

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