Operational Excellence Lead

Operational Excellence Lead

Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing an estimated 19 percent of the world's flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, beverage can, automotive and high-end specialty markets. 

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 14,650 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is making significant capital investments in recycling and rolling capacity in North America to meet an ascending customer demand.

The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking an Operational Excellence Lead. The person in this role will report to the Director Performance Improvement. The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting the implementation of Novelis World Class Manufacturing, as subject matter (Specific Improvement Pillar) authority for the region, leads efforts on quantitative data to support capacity studies, and deployment of target into manufacturing organization. By partnering with plants team, synchronize activities for business analyses that translates data into practical improvement projects, following standardized performance metrics.

Support critical manufacturing assets operational target deployments by providing data to critical metric alignment to support consistent deployment.

Coordinate across region the vital integration of metrics to assure an effective and reliable information across similar assets into performance measurement data.

Coordinate across region the flow of information on potential capacity to supply-chain in the annual plan process. Carries out governance of capacity improvement (non-CAPEX) projects meeting and reviews. 

This position will be responsible for mature knowledge in planning and conducting improvement projects having a scope for independent accomplishment and coordination with regional corporate and plant teams.

Responsibilities:

• This role will lead requirements for creating process-oriented capacity studies leveraging on data models that will support the operational performance improvement agenda. In addition, the function will analyze and interpret data to recommend and influence decisions of the Operation Excellence organization.
• The Operational Excellence performance improvement lead will support to coordinate key improvement projects and set the highest standards for project management along with quarterly governance.
• Support the development and implementation of capacity studies, policies and practices that proactively address the manufacturing management system development and execution.
• Ensure consistent application of routine management critical metric trees by process. Supporting frequent performance management auditing.
• Provide subject matter expertise and support of WCM tools, systems and methodologies to all levels of Novelis management, globally, regionally and locally.
• Understand the operational performance standardized metrics and provide expertise to support usage by the plants.
• Support the plants in critical projects, co-leading and hand-on application of WCM methodologies eventually providing training and coaching.
• Create and maintain an effective communication network with regional leaders, corporate functions
• Support critical assets of Manufacturing units organizing their plan by supporting regional Factory Models.
• Ensure consistent critical metric to measurement to supervise operational performance.
• Support director, cluster leaders VP of Operations in identifying improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate target deployment process. Applies the methods to estimate potential performance, toward capacity, recovery and cost.
• Provide insightful review, perspective, and direction on strategy and operating performance
• Work with company’s leadership to define and drive critical, organizational, and operational improvement recommendations, as well as, new improvement projects.
• Analyzes and determines key insights from business drivers, competitive environment, trends and operating metrics
• Manages the quality, usefulness, and integrity of operational data
• Uses statistical tools to analyze data for trends and establishing reporting as a result
• Use data to identify and address organizational performance gaps
• Deploy Master Pilar of Specific Improvement on daily activities at specific critical assets.
• Provide and support capability building initiatives to develop managerial knowledge to Continuous Improvement engineers
• Organize continuously capacity reviews of critical assets routines of improvement project, ensure the application of single agenda concept.
• Ensure the lean manufacturing cultural process change for Operations, focused on development of the best productivity process with low cost and according to the plan.
• Intensify the use of Lean Methodology in projects across operations reducing waste and increase the earnings.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business
• 5+ years of experience in operation management
• 3 years of experience with Lean Manufacturing or CI in Operations
• At least 3 years of analytical experience
• Certified WCM SI Pillar
• Excellent communication and influence skills
• Analytical and strategic, yet highly pragmatic and results-oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication and organizational skills
• Knowledge of VSM, Lean-/ Kaizen-systematics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post-graduation or MBA on Management systems or correlated subjects
• 3 years of Leading position in Manufacturing
• 3 years of experience with Lean Manufacturing and experienced with OEE Overall Equipment effectiveness measurement and implementation.
• Experience with WCM implementation
• Ability to collaborate with teams across business areas
• Willingness and ability to with data management

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, competitive 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)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retiree Medical Plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis sponsored Retiree Health Access
• Retirement Savings Account
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

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, state or local laws.

Novelis is committed to a Flex Work approach that empowers employees to maintain work-life balance while enjoying the benefits of a collaborative office environment.

This role’s salary starts from $109,100 per year. Individual pay will vary based on qualifications, experience, and performance. In addition to base salary, this position includes participation in a short-term incentive plan (Annual Incentive Plan - AIP or Plant Performance incentive - PPI).

Novelis’ Oswego facility is located on Lake Ontario in north-central New York and employs approximately 1100 people. The Oswego site produces more than a billion pounds of high-quality aluminum sheet each year in order to serve our customers in the automotive beverage can and specialty markets. In addition to museums and public parks many Oswego residents and visitors enjoy boating fishing hiking and other local recreational activities. Novelis is committed to the Oswego community through its ongoing support of the local United Way Habitat for Humanity Oswego Harborfest and many other worthwhile community and civic 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.

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