Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality

NOVELIS; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Growth

Employee Assistance

Wellness Programs

Diabetes Management

Pet Insurance

Identity Theft Protection

PerkSpot Discount

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Novelis is seeking a Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality to drive regional deployment of quality initiatives across a multi-site manufacturing network in the United States. You will build governance, establish owners, and ensure alignment with customer requirements and business targets.

The role emphasizes coaching leaders, applying Lean/Six Sigma methodologies, and leading cross-functional improvement projects with strong data analytics and change-management skills.

Qualifications

• Experience leading improvement programs, cross-functional initiatives, or transformation efforts.
• Experience using data to identify gaps, prioritize actions, and improve operational performance.
• Experience deploying Lean, World Class Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
• Ability to influence and coach leaders and technical teams without direct authority, with strong communication, facilitation, and change-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality across the plant network.
• Drive process ownership across the region by ensuring defined owners and targets.
• Develop and standardize process controls, reaction plans, quality standards, visual management, governance routines.
• Guide plants in translating customer requirements and product specs into operating parameters and control strategies.
• Monitor process stability, variation, capability, and quality losses.
• Facilitate structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate defects.
• Build regional capability through training, coaching, benchmarking, communities of practice, and replication of proven practices.
• Support audits and maturity assessments, track corrective actions, and elevate barriers or gaps when required.

Skills

Data-driven decisions

Leadership coaching

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, economics, finance, or related field

MBA or related postgraduate degree

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

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 Operations Excellence team is seeking a Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality. The person in this role will report to the Operations Excellence Senior Manager. The ideal candidate will lead the regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality, strengthen process ownership and process-control practices, and coach plant teams across a multi-site manufacturing network. This position will improve process stability, prevent defects, reduce quality losses, and build sustainable capability to deliver customer and business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality standards, methodologies, and improvement plans across the plant network.
• Drive process ownership across the region by ensuring manufacturing processes have clearly defined owners accountable for process conditions, standards, performance targets, and the delivery of business results.
• Develop and standardize process controls, reaction plans, quality standards, visual management, and governance routines.
• Guide plants in translating customer requirements and product specifications into clear operating parameters and control strategies.
• Monitor process stability, variation, capability, customer performance, quality losses, and adherence to critical process conditions.
• Facilitate structured root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes to eliminate recurring defects and performance losses.
• Build regional capability through training, coaching, benchmarking, communities of practice, and replication of proven practices.
• Support audits and maturity assessments, track corrective actions, and elevate systemic barriers or resource gaps when required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, economics, finance, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in manufacturing, operational excellence, continuous improvement, or management-system implementation.
• Experience leading improvement programs, cross-functional initiatives, or transformation efforts in a complex organization.
• Experience using data to identify gaps, prioritize actions, and improve operational performance.
• Experience deploying Lean, World Class Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, or similar operating-system methodologies.
• Ability to influence and coach leaders and technical teams without direct authority, with strong communication, facilitation, and change-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Postgraduate degree or Master of Business Administration in operations, continuous improvement, management systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience in a regional or multi-site manufacturing role, preferably in metals or a similar heavy-manufacturing environment.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
• Experience with process capability, statistical process control, process optimization, and manufacturing excellence.
• Experience establishing process ownership, process-governance systems, control strategies, and reaction plans.
• Knowledge of overall equipment effectiveness, loss deployment, routine management, maturity assessments, and quality-management systems (ISO 9001/IATF 16949).

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!

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Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Corporate and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta GA employing around 700 people. Supporting it’s 31 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.

Disclaimer

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