Director, Engineering & Operations Support

NOVELIS; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Growth Programs

Employee Assistance Programs

Wellness Programs

Diabetes Management Program

Pet insurance

Identity Theft Protection

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Novelis, a leader in aluminum recycling and sustainability, seeks a Director, Engineering & Operations Support in Atlanta. You will build a brand-new centralized organization, lead senior engineers, and report to the Senior VP, Operations, North America.

You’ll guide regional projects, safety, and reliability while shaping the function’s strategy across North American plants. The role requires 15+ years in manufacturing leadership, strong governance and ROI experience, and a proven ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing engineering, quality, reliability or maintenance; multi-site experience.
• Experience leading managers and multidisciplinary teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with governance, feasibility studies, front-end engineering, capital justification and safe project execution.
• Knowledge of reliability fundamentals, rolling processes, and ROI analysis.
• Strong communication and executive-level influencing skills.
• Track record of organizational change, standing up or scaling a function.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a centralized engineering, reliability, maintenance, and quality organization across North America.
• Ensure projects comply with safety and regulatory requirements, and manage change.
• Prioritize and deploy technical resources based on risk, value, and region.
• Oversee feasibility studies, front-end engineering, and project execution from development to startup.
• Resolve major quality issues through root-cause analysis and preventive controls.
• Drive asset reliability and performance through maintenance strategies and incident prevention.
• Develop talent, align stakeholders, and communicate risks and portfolio updates to leaders.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing leadership

Project governance

Quality systems

Safety & regulatory

Stakeholder influence

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA or Master’s in Engineering

Tools

ISO 9001

Six Sigma

Quality management systems

Job description

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 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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

Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis’ North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

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.