Process Engineer

About This Role

This Process Engineer position supports Novelis's cold rolling, annealing, tension leveling, and slitting processes to ensure plant safety, quality, production, sustainability, and budget objectives are met. The role involves identifying and implementing process improvements for increased profitability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Work safely, in compliance with all corporate, plant, local, state, and federal safety rules and regulations, and stay on top of current policies and procedures, ensuring outside vendors/contractors align with them.
• Investigate, develop, and provide recommended solutions for any safety issues related to plant equipment requiring field or project engineering as assigned.
• Establish, complete, and audit routine management for the site with KPI, CIV, and COV monitoring/control charts.
• Work alongside operators and other manufacturing unit staff as needed for Root Cause Analyses to solve and prevent problems that impact product quality and productivity.
• Identify areas of potential advancements in the processes, equipment, and facility to achieve increased profitability through reduced costs, increased efficiency, improved quality, increased production output, and optimized equipment uptime.
• Ensure that the processes result in a product that meets or exceeds internal and external customer expectations.
• Understand and be mindful of any process projects including budget control, schedule, and compliance with safety, environmental, and sustainability requirements, to assure performance against expectations.
• Continually review control plans, work instructions, process methods, equipment, and technology for robustness, reliability, and obsolescence.
• Develop plans for modifications and/or upgrades as needed.
• Ensure all processes remain aligned with relevant requirements, including Customer’s, applicable portions of ASTM B209, Aluminum Association, and ISO 9001:2015.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or Metallurgical Engineering preferred)
• Strong computer skills with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI) and SPC software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation abilities
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and objectives
• Hard skills in problem-solving and complex data analysis
• Proven technical and process leadership skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or Metallurgical Engineering is preferred).
• 3-5 years of professional experience in process engineering

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of aluminum rolling processes (hot rolling, cold rolling, annealing, tension leveling, slitting, and painting of aluminum coils)
• 3-5 years of professional experience in process engineering
• Background in Lean / Six Sigma principles (Green/Black Belt) and A3 problem solving methodology
• Experience in maintaining compliance with ISO 9001:2015, ASTM, and/or Aluminum Association standards

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits