Machine & Fab Shop Supervisor

Novelis; Bay Minette (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Growth Programs

Employee Assistance Programs

Wellness Programs

Diabetes Management Program

Pet insurance

Identity Theft Protection

PerkSpot Discount Program

Tuition assistance and career dev.

Job summary

Novelis is seeking a Bay Minette-based Machine Shop & Fabrication Shop Supervisor to lead machining and metal fabrication operations. You will drive safety, quality, and schedule performance while coordinating with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and contractors to ensure timely repair parts and precision components.

You will manage a diverse team of machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, and contractors, build a zero-injury culture, and plan work prioritization, tool

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Five+ years in industrial machine-shop, fabrication, maintenance, or heavy-manufacturing.
• Two+ years leading skilled trades or multi-craft teams.
• Ability to plan competing work and coordinate resources.
• Basic MS Office; able to learn CMMS and timekeeping systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, and contractors across both shops.
• Build a zero-injury culture through safety leadership, pre-job planning, LOTO, and safety controls.
• Prioritize work based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, and customer need.
• Manage shop work from intake and scope through planning, material coordination, execution, inspection, delivery, and closeout.
• Ensure parts, repairs, weldments, and fabrications meet drawings, tolerances, and inspection standards.
• Maintain readiness of machine tools, welding/cutting equipment, and measuring tools.
• Develop employees through coaching, qualification plans, cross-training, and accountability.
• Support commissioning, outages, emergencies, and field modifications with safety and quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Safety leadership

Planning & prioritization

Cross-functional communication

Problem solving

Education

HS diploma or GED

Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

CMMS (SAP PM)

Job description

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 Machine Shop & Fabrication Shop Supervisor leads Bay Minette’s machining and metal fabrication operations. The role is accountable for safe execution, people leadership, work prioritization, quality, schedule performance, equipment readiness, and continuous improvement. The supervisor partners with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Planning, Procurement, and contractors to provide timely repair parts, precision-machined components, weldments, structural fabrications, field modifications, and breakdown support.

Primary 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.

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in a related technical or business field.
• Journeyman-level experience as a machinist, toolmaker, millwright, welder, fabricator, or industrial maintenance technician.
• Experience leading both machine-shop and fabrication-shop operations in heavy industry.
• Experience with CNC and conventional machining, plasma cutting, structural or pipe fabrication, welding quality, dimensional inspection, SAP PM or another CMMS, lean manufacturing, and contractor coordination.
• Relevant AWS, NCCER, NIMS, OSHA, crane, or rigging credentials.
• 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' newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high‑paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.

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

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