Quality Engineer

About the Role

Novelis is a global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. We work alongside customers in aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging, and specialty markets to deliver innovative solutions. This position is based at the Uhrichsville, Ohio facility, which produces flat-rolled aluminum coil for building, construction, automotive, transportation, and consumer durable applications.

Responsibilities

• Maintain site business management systems and ensure timely updates.
• Calibrate equipment according to standards to meet customer requirements.
• Order measuring equipment, oils, and chemicals for the finishing department.
• Schedule preventive maintenance, calibrations, and cleaning of lab equipment.
• Coordinate vendor activities and communications.
• Ensure coolant systems are up to standard and make necessary adjustments.
• Assist with decision-making within the QA department.
• Support vendors with purchase orders and address order concerns.
• Oversee regulatory requirements and standards certifications (ISO 9001-2015, IATF 16949:2016, ASI, and customer-specific requirements).
• Plan and lead the internal audit function, ensuring readiness for annual registrar (SAI), corporate, and customer audits.
• Manage document control and serve as repository key user (ETQ).
• Support the process team on management reviews, quality initiatives, and process improvements.
• Assess and resolve process deviations impacting quality, utilization, and efficiency.
• Develop process control strategies to ensure long-term product and process capability.
• Develop and implement projects to optimize the business management system.
• Participate in new product development, including process documentation and refinement.
• Identify and eliminate causes of quality defects using problem-solving methodologies.
• Oversee metallurgist activities and perform microscopic metallography to support defect characterization.
• Use World Class Manufacturing (WCM) methodologies to resolve customer complaints and internal quality concerns.
• Adhere to company quality, environmental, health & safety, and certification standards (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering preferred).
• Minimum of three years’ experience in relevant quality management system roles.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong human relations skills to motivate, train, and develop others.
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize workload, managing multiple tasks without sacrificing attention to detail.
• Flexibility to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven computer skills with applicable software.
• High analytical skills to compile and interpret lubricant performance data, viscosity, and additive balance.
• Multi-functional collaboration with process, operation, maintenance, and quality teams.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of aluminum continuous casting (CC), hot rolling (oil-in-water emulsions), and cold rolling processes (hydrocarbon-based oils).
• Familiarity with aluminum cast house water treatment systems, lubricant and coolant systems in hot mills, and oil delivery in cold mills.
• Strong knowledge of lubricant chemistry, base oil types, additive functions (friction modifiers, antioxidants, anti-corrosion), and their effect on strip surface quality.
• Understanding of lubrication mechanisms and the balance between under-lubrication and over-lubrication.

Benefits

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility treatment, childcare discounts, and nursing mom support.
• Employee Assistance Programs: Free 24/7 resources for mental health, family life, career, and financial guidance.
• Wellness Programs: Incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy, and health management programs.
• Diabetes management program.
• Pet insurance.
• Identity theft protection.
• PerkSpot discount program.
• Tuition assistance and career development programs.