Director, Engineering & Operations Support

careers-novelis; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Fertility Support

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness Programs

Pet Insurance

ID Theft Protection

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Novelis, a global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, is building a new Engineering & Operations Support organization in North America. The Director will lead senior engineers, reliability, maintenance, and quality across plants, reporting to the SVP Operations, and shaping the function's direction.

This hands-on leader will drive governance, front-end engineering, capital projects, and continuous improvement while partnering with senior leaders to achieve safety, quality and financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• 15+ years in manufacturing engineering, quality, reliability, maintenance, or related operations.
• Experience leading managers in a multi-site, matrixed environment.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, Six Sigma, CAPA and related quality methods.
• Strong business acumen, communication, and executive influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new centralized engineering, reliability, maintenance, and quality organization.
• Provide governance for feasibility studies, front-end engineering and project development.
• Oversee safety, environmental compliance and management-of-change for projects.
• Drive root-cause analysis and prevention of recurrence for major quality issues.
• Advance asset performance through proactive maintenance and reliability programs.
• Develop technical talent and align stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

Leadership experience

Manufacturing engineering

Project governance

Quality systems

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA or Master’s in Engineering

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.