Director, Engineering & Operations Support

Position Overview Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents. Responsibilities & Qualifications The Novelis North America team is seeking a Director, Engineering & Operations Support to build and lead a brand-new organization from the ground up. As Director, Engineering & Operations Support, you will report to the Senior Vice President, Operations, North America, and lead a talented team of senior engineers, with the Manager, Quality and Manager, Engineering & Reliability reporting directly to this role. You will provide regional leadership for strategic engineering projects, reliability and maintenance, and quality systems and processes across our North American manufacturing plants — shaping the function's direction and playing a pivotal role in achieving our operational and financial targets. We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on leader who thrives on the challenge of standing up a new team and is energized by the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on our organization. Responsibilities Build and lead a new, centralized engineering, reliability, maintenance, and quality organization — supporting manufacturing plants, customers, and tolling operations across North America. Ensure projects and technical activities align with environmental, health, and safety requirements, engineering controls, regulatory obligations, and management-of-change expectations. Establish a transparent process to assess, prioritize, and deploy technical resources based on safety, customer impact, operational risk, business value, and regional priorities. Provide governance and technical oversight for feasibility studies, front-end engineering, project development, execution, commissioning, startup, and operational ramp-up. Lead the resolution of significant plant and tolling quality issues through structured root-cause analysis, stronger controls, consistent practices, and prevention of recurrence. Advance reliability and asset performance through equipment strategy, failure elimination, preventive and predictive maintenance, outage support, and disciplined technical problem solving. Develop technical talent, strengthen standards and knowledge transfer, align multi-functional collaborators, and communicate recommendations, portfolio updates, and material risks to senior leaders. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering. 15 or more years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing engineering, quality, reliability, maintenance, capital projects, or a closely related operations rigor. Experience leading…