Maintenance Manager - Novelis Davenport Manufacturing Facility

Position Overview

The Novelis Casting plant located in Davenport, IA has an immediate opening for a Maintenance Manager. This position collaborates with the Engineering & Maintenance Manager.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities include:

• Is a role model for safety; demonstrates behaviors that align with the Novelis safety principles and holds the team accountable for results.
• Ensure the equipment and facility operate safely by following Novelis HSE standards and policies, all state and federal laws, and company policies and procedures.
• Implements processes that reveal safety hazards. Investigates accidents and near misses and develops balanced corrective actions.
• Develop and implement an overall maintenance strategy to deliver operational stability and improve plant efficiency.
• Leads and coordinates break-down, corrective, renovated, and preventative maintenance to minimize equipment downtime and optimize utilization.
• Planning, scheduling, and implementing projects according to deadlines and within budget. This includes accruing resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan.
• Re-assess and re-direct maintenance efforts and focus on improved reliability, quality, and reducing operating costs.
• Lead the efforts of root cause failure analysis with recommended solutions.
• Implement the vital tools and systems to efficiently lead preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, spare parts' inventory, and general work orders at the facility.
• Set and communicate clear performance standards and hold direct reports accountable for results.
• Continuously improve the efficient use of financial and human resources in the performance of duties.
• Provide a climate of trust and employee engagement.
• Develop the capabilities of all maintenance employees through effective training, performance evaluations, counseling, and provide for opportunities to improve potential.
• Engages team to drive a continuous improvement culture by applying the Novelis Operating System.
• Works in conjunction with Human Resources to ensure compliance with the collective bargaining agreement for seniority, disciplinary process, overtime scheduling, and grievance handling.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent required; 7 to 10 years minimum heavy manufacturing experience. Experience in the aluminum industry strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in mechanical and electrical industrial maintenance.
• Strong working knowledge in purchasing, PLC systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and overall machine design.
• Excellent interpersonal, planning and organizing, time management, and effective oral and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement techniques is crucial.
• Ability to work with a long-term strategy along with leading short term objectives.
• Ability to instill a sense of purpose and encourage actions in others.
• Ability to assist team members through clear task assignment, feedback, and development planning.
• Ability to bring together the appropriate people and information to make timely, effective decisions.
• Ability to tackle problems while making good decisions and a realistic understanding of the issues involved.
• Ability to achieve results, lead multiple tasks and objectives in parallel and own the technical and social issues associated with change.

Location Profile

Davenport IA has been a key player in the aluminum industry for over 11 decades. Novelis employs more than 300 people in the Davenport community across two facilities: a finishing mill and a casting facility. Novelis is an active and engaged community partner in Davenport teaming up with organizations like Habitat for Humanity Riverbend Food Bank and CASI and sponsoring local events including Advanced Manufacturing Career Day.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.