Lead Machining & Fabrication Shop Supervisor

Novelis Group; Bay Minette (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Fertility treatment

Childcare discount

Nursing mom support

Employee assistance programs

Wellness programs

Diabetes management program

Pet insurance

Identity theft protection

PerkSpot discounts

Tuition assistance and career dev.

Job summary

Novelis is seeking a Machine Shop & Fabrication Shop Supervisor for its Bay Minette, AL facility. You will lead machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians and contractors, ensuring safe, on-time production and high-quality metal parts.

You will drive safety culture, plan work, manage resources, and coordinate with maintenance, engineering and planning teams to deliver reliable machining and fabrication support for aerospace, automotive and beverage-can markets.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Five or more years of industrial machine-shop, fabrication-shop, maintenance, or heavy-manufacturing experience.
• Two or more years leading skilled trades, shop personnel, contractors, or multi-craft work.
• Working knowledge of machining, welding and fabrication, mechanical drawings, tolerances, precision measurement, material identification, and shop safety.
• Ability to plan competing work, coordinate resources, communicate across functions, and drive safe completion.
• Basic Microsoft Office proficiency and ability to learn CMMS, purchasing, and timekeeping systems.
• Ability to provide flexible onsite support during startup, outages, emergencies, and equipment failures and meet position requirements with or without reasonable accommodation.

Responsibilities

• Lead machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, and assigned contractors across both shops.
• Build a zero-injury culture through visible safety leadership, pre-job planning, LOTO, machine guarding, hot-work controls, lifting and rigging, compressed-gas safety, and housekeeping.
• Prioritize work based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, job readiness, and customer need.
• Manage shop work from request intake and scope definition through planning, material coordination, execution, inspection, delivery, and closeout.
• Ensure parts, repairs, weldments, and fabrications meet approved drawings, tolerances, material requirements, welding requirements, and inspection standards.
• Maintain the readiness of machine tools, welding and cutting equipment, saws, cranes, hoists, tooling, fixtures, and precision measuring equipment.
• Develop employees through coaching, qualification plans, cross-training, performance feedback, and clear accountability.
• Support commissioning, shutdowns, emergency repairs, contractor work, and field modifications while protecting safety and quality.
• Monitor backlog, schedule attainment, rework, labor use, overtime, contractor support, and material and tooling costs.
• Develop standard work, inspection checklists, tool-control practices, material traceability, drawing revision controls, and shop performance measures.
• Support root-cause investigations and reliability improvements with repair-method, dimensional, fabrication, and maintainability input.
• Maintain compliance with company policies and applicable safety, environmental, fire-protection, and quality requirements.

Skills

Machining & welding

Planning & coordination

Safety leadership

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate or bachelor’s degree in a related technical or business field

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

Lean manufacturing

Job description

Novelis is seeking a Machine Shop & Fabrication Shop Supervisor for its Bay Minette, AL facility. You will lead machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians and contractors, ensuring safe, on-time production and high-quality metal parts.

You will drive safety culture, plan work, manage resources, and coordinate with maintenance, engineering and planning teams to deliver reliable machining and fabrication support for aerospace, automotive and beverage-can markets.