Template/External Requisition Title Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality

NOVELIS; Novi (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Employee assistance programs

Pet insurance

Tuition assistance

PerkSpot Discounts

Job summary

Novelis is seeking a Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality to drive regional deployment and governance of quality standards across multiple plants. The role reports to the Operations Excellence Senior Manager and focuses on improving process stability, reducing defects, and building capability through coaching and training.

The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional initiatives, influence leaders without direct authority, and ensure adherence to quality targets, while supporting audits and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, economics, finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years in manufacturing, operational excellence, or management-system implementation.
• Experience leading improvement programs and cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to use data to identify gaps and improve performance.
• Experience with Lean or Six Sigma methodologies.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and change-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality standards across the plant network.
• Define owners for processes and track performance targets and business results.
• Develop and standardize process controls, reaction plans, and governance routines.
• Translate customer requirements into clear operating parameters and control strategies.
• Monitor process stability, variation, capability, and quality losses.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate defects.
• Build regional capability through training, coaching, and communities of practice.
• Support audits, track actions, and address systemic barriers when needed.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Data analysis

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree (engineering/business/economics/finance)

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

Process mapping

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.

MinimumQualifications:

• 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.

PreferredQualifications:

• 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' Novi office is located twenty-five miles northwest of the heart of the motor city. Its 100+ employees provide dedicated commercial sales technical support and recycling teams for Novelis' growing automotive customer base. Novi is also the location of the company's Customer Solution Center which accelerates innovation between Novelis and automakers for the next generation of vehicle design. As one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan Novi offers a host of destination shopping and specialty expos fine dining options and outdoor recreation activities. Our Novi team is a key sponsor to community events such as Habitat for Humanity and local schools with its FIRST Robotics team and STEM education programs.

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

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis