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Novelis - Guthrie, KY is seeking an experienced Lab Technician to join Novelis for our expansion/greenfield start-up Recycling Center in Guthrie, KY. This Lab Technician will report to the Process Engineering Leader and is responsible for providing timely testing of production material to support Guthrie Manufacturing Units' daily operations. This includes daily production testing, product quality control, and special investigations. Specifically, this position entails utilizing metal preparation testing equipment to ascertain and report metal characteristics. The Lab Technician will provide guidance to manufacturing groups based on sample analysis and mechanical testing results obtained in the lab.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
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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 in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family's well-being:
Novelis recognizes its dedicated 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, state or local laws.
Location:
Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of Southwestern Kentucky, Guthrie resides along the Tennessee border. From stagecoaches to railroads, Guthrie has played an important part in transportation from the 1820's through today because of its central location to major cities. The city of Guthrie says it's "a place where friends are always welcome. A place in this beautiful Commonwealth we are proud to call home." Novelis is proud to call Guthrie part of the family. This greenfield site will feature state-of-the-art equipment used to prepare aluminum for use in producing the cars, trucks, and SUVs of the future.
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Location Profile
Novelis' Guthrie facility is located in Guthrie Kentucky approximately 30 minutes from the Tennessee state line near Clarksville Tennessee and Hopkinsville Kentucky. As Novelis' newest facility Guthrie will house a heat treatment and pretreatment line that will serve the North American automotive market and employ 125 residents. In addition to hunting fishing and hiking residents enjoy the Guthrie Transportation Museum which is the hub of the city's renewal efforts. The Guthrie team enjoys partnerships with Hopkinsville Community College Todd County High School Guthrie Fire Department and several local Rotary Clubs. 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.
Novelis - Guthrie, KY is seeking an experienced Lab Technician to join Novelis for our expansion/greenfield start-up Recycling Center in Guthrie, KY. This Lab Technician will report to the Process Engineering Leader and is responsible for providing timely testing of production material to support Guthrie Manufacturing Units' daily operations. This includes daily production testing, product quality control, and special investigations. Specifically, this position entails utilizing metal preparation testing equipment to ascertain and report metal characteristics. The Lab Technician will provide guidance to manufacturing groups based on sample analysis and mechanical testing results obtained in the lab.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Responsibilities:
- Provide prompt, accurate test data as required to support operations. Provide real-time feedback to allow manufacturing adjustments based on sample analysis and mechanical testing results obtained in the Laboratory.
- Develop reporting tools to make complex data more easily understandable. Provide Laboratory results to Quality Engineers/Product Engineers and other Novelis personnel for further analysis.
- May be required to interact with vendors and maintenance personnel to help troubleshoot and resolve equipment issues.
- Operate sample inventory management, sample preparation, and sample testing equipment.
- Be an active participant in reliability issues related to Laboratory equipment.
- Assist in the implementation of training plans, development of training documentation, and training of new Laboratory Technicians.
- Support audits and findings gap closure.
- Address and resolve certification issues.
- Participate in problem-solving resolution and verify/validate corrective actions.
- Actively support EHS policy, align decisions and actions with the EHS management system, and integrate EHS performance in day-to-day operations.
- Support the implementation and maintenance of the plant's Quality System by serving as a resource.
- Engage in continuous improvement activities that will help create a safer and more efficient Laboratory environment.
- Perform other tasks as required by the Process Engineering team.
- Use the necessary instruments and tools to perform the following tasks.
- Daily, weekly, monthly PM's of quantometers and milling machines.
- Chemistry tests.
- Daily caster cooling water, make-up water and city water tests.
- LiMCA inclusion tests.
- Prefill -PoDFA inclusion tests.
- Prepare met lab samples for inclusion analysis.
- Prepare the inclusion reports with working casting process engineer.
- Daily ingot inspections.
- Scrap melt loss tests.
- Scrap moisture test.
- Scrap organic and dust tests.
- Hardener inspections.
- Purchase requisitions for the necessary supplies of the lab equipment and tests.
- Record test results on time and accurately.
Qualifications:
- Must be willing to work 8-hour or 12-hour, rotating shifts as well as holidays and weekends if business needs require.
- Ability to work effectively without close supervision in a challenging environment while maintaining a positive outlook and striving for world-class process improvements.
- Adequate computer skills to navigate lab software and communicate throughout the organization are required.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
- Ability to walk and stand for most of the shift.
- Experience in a lab setting is a plus.
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 in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family's well-being:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health savings accounts - Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
- Paid vacation and personal time off
- 401(k) savings plan with company match
- Retirement savings plans - medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange
- Employee assistance programs - available 24/7 to you and your family
- Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
Novelis recognizes its dedicated 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, state or local laws.
Location:
Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of Southwestern Kentucky, Guthrie resides along the Tennessee border. From stagecoaches to railroads, Guthrie has played an important part in transportation from the 1820's through today because of its central location to major cities. The city of Guthrie says it's "a place where friends are always welcome. A place in this beautiful Commonwealth we are proud to call home." Novelis is proud to call Guthrie part of the family. This greenfield site will feature state-of-the-art equipment used to prepare aluminum for use in producing the cars, trucks, and SUVs of the future.
#MA1
#L1-MA1
Location Profile
Novelis' Guthrie facility is located in Guthrie Kentucky approximately 30 minutes from the Tennessee state line near Clarksville Tennessee and Hopkinsville Kentucky. As Novelis' newest facility Guthrie will house a heat treatment and pretreatment line that will serve the North American automotive market and employ 125 residents. In addition to hunting fishing and hiking residents enjoy the Guthrie Transportation Museum which is the hub of the city's renewal efforts. The Guthrie team enjoys partnerships with Hopkinsville Community College Todd County High School Guthrie Fire Department and several local Rotary Clubs. 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.
