Associate Operations Leader

Position Overview

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 & Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Schedules and directs employees in assignment and completion of production work. Creates and trains a team of workers to achieve or exceed budgeted production goals while maintaining compliance with environmental and other regulatory requirements.
• Checks the types, location, quantity, and availability of materials needed to complete the production requirements for the shift. Checks records from previous shift, and alerts maintenance of potential equipment problems. Directs incoming material shipments where, when, and how to unload.
• Supports FFL initiatives and projects which drive continual improvement, foster a culture of safety leadership, development of employees, and support business objectives.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet schedules. Determines overtime work schedule and approves employee time in Kronos.
• Interprets instructions, specifications, or job orders to employees.
• Monitors production output and quality data. Maintains time and production records. Compiles reports for management review. Provides hands-on operation of furnaces with responsibility for optimizing recoveries.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase employee efficiency.
• Analyzes and resolves or assists workers in resolving work related problems.
• Conducts meetings with employees and ensures compliance with all health, safety and environmental regulations, and company policies and procedures.
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments or shifts.
• Provides relief supervision on weekends, nights and holidays or as needed.
• Directly supervises 10 to 20 production employees.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Novelis policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include training employees, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, disciplining employees, and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Work collaboratively with Maintenance and Engineering departments to support initiatives and activities for reliable people, processes, and equipment.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and two to three years directly related experience; or equivalent combination of education and directly related supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations is required.
• Proven ability to develop, implement and manage systems and procedures and work with minimal supervision while also leading others toward plant goal achievement.
• Must possess strong interpersonal, communication and team leadership skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel).
• Highly motivated, goal oriented, ethical and challenge driven.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Valid driver's license required.

What Novelis Offers

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:

• Core benefits coverage (medical, dental and vision) for you and your family premiums starting as low as $75/ month for the employee, spouse/domestic partner, and children
• HSA contributions
• Competitive Paid vacation and personal time off
• Novelis contributes up to 9.5% of your pay into a 401(k) for your Retirement savings
• 8 weeks of paid time off for new parents
• 6-months of short-term disability at 100% pay
• Finally, the Novelis holistic Well-Being benefits include programs to support weight loss and management, fitness challenges, 24/7 mental health support, tobacco and substance use cessation programs, lifestyle discounts, and more. Novelis actively explores diversifying our Well-being benefits to support our unique and changing work force

Location Profile

The finishing mill in Lincolnshire established in 1966 cold rolls aluminum to a desired gauge anneals to temper levels and slits the rolled sheet to size. The facility which employees around 100 people produces mill finish coil for the building and construction and transportation industries. Lincolnshire is committed to the local community through its ongoing volunteer initiatives with a number of local organizations