Plant Manager

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 Lincolnshire team is seeking a Plant Manager. This position is responsible for leading and developing the plant operations team and the facility to meet and exceed customer expectations in a lean, customer-oriented environment. Achieve established production objectives in a safe and efficient manner and within approved budgets, company guidelines and legal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for general day-to-day management of all phases of plant operations.
• Ensure effective utilization of all resources (e.g., asset management, capacity planning) to meet or exceed customer expectations while reducing costs.
• Establish, implement, and maintain accountability for the achievement of specific operational targets (e.g., safety rates, on-time shipments, inventory targets, product cost, quality standards).
• Optimize and manage all planning, quality, and manufacturing.
• Maintain a continuous review of schedules, methods, standards, or other production factors and makes effective recommendations for changes to improve quality and reduce cost.
• Develop and maintain Leadership Team to have strong customer focus and be profit oriented.
• Responsible for plant level financial management, monthly P&L, inventory, capital expenditures, etc. for performance to budget.
• Provide for the personal and professional growth of all subordinates.
• Oversee and direct the activities of a multi-disciplinary, multi-product, manufacturing division with a focus on safety, quality, service, and productivity using appropriate business improvement tools (lean, six sigma, design of experiment, total quality management, statistical process control, etc.).
• Analyze, measure, and develop processes to improve quality, service, and productivity outputs to meet economic valuable goals and key success factors.
• Direct and develop guidelines based on knowledge and experience of Novelis’ scheduling system and capacity interactions to ensure customer demand and lead times are met.
• Establish programs and support systems for the training and development of the manufacturing personnel. Manage, evaluate, and coach the performance of direct reports and set expectations for the composite and vinyl manufacturing divisions.
• Communicate cross-functionally by facilitating, leading, and participating with support departments to continually improve the cycle time required to identify, resolve, and prevent reoccurrence of manufacturing and customer issues.
• Set objectives, allocate resources, and establish priorities to achieve the highest quality and lowest cost production to satisfy customer needs.
• Budget, forecast, and capacity plan to meet customer demand.
• Develop team members within the organization to reach their potential and to apply this ability in the proper area of the organization.
• Facilitate and lead multiple continuous improvement projects, using team-based improvement methodology, driving employee involvement, ownership, and bottom-line business results.
• All other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree
• Seven or more years as a leader of a significant business unit.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with all levels within the organization and with external customers.
• Familiar with lean concepts.
• Knowledge and willingness to learn, support, and implement Novelis training methods as well as policies and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad and in-depth understanding of the aluminum rolling and finishing industry

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

The finishing mill in Lincolnshire Illinois is located 26 miles from Chicago and was established in 1966. The facility cold rolls aluminum to a desired gauges anneals to tempers levels and slits the rolled sheet to size. The facility which employees around 100 people produces mill finish coils for the building construction and transportation industries where its’ products are used for gutters siding soffits and facia. Lincolnshire is committed to the local community through its ongoing volunteer initiatives with a number of local organizations.

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

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