Technical Development Engineer - Ford Job at Novelis North America HQ
Position Overview:
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. Novelis technical teams are located in Novi, MI, close to most North American automotive design centers, to efficiently interact with customer design and manufacturing engineers.
The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking a Technical Development Engineer. The candidate is a key member of the
Technical Development Engineer - Ford
Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing a significant amount 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. Novelis technical teams are located in Novi, MI, close to most North American automotive design centers, to efficiently interact with customer design and manufacturing engineers.
The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking a Technical Development Engineer. The candidate is a key member of the
Ford OEM Team, with the major responsibility of deploying Novelis technical expertise at customer engineering and manufacturing facilities during the development of new and optimization of existing products.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
Responsibilities
- Identify customer requirements for aluminum sheet products, including alloy and appropriate surface treatments and topographies
- Develop and negotiate customer specifications and identify or develop Novelis products and processes to meet them.
- Assist customers with alloy selection through communication of design and manufacturing guidelines
- Participate in customer design reviews
- Assess part formability through virtual or physical testing
- Develop product delivery specifications in conjunction with Novelis mills or blanking/tolling subcontractors
- Handle sheet product qualifications
- Support customer tool tryouts and joining assessments
- Address issues with implementation of Novelis products into OEM manufacturing stream
- Lead Novelis R&D activities based on customers’ needs and growth opportunities in alignment with the Technical Development Manager
- Lead projects in partnership with OEM Engineering from concept to conclusion
- Lead and make valuable contributions to discussions on all new alloy developments with regard to specific customer requirements.
- Work in partnership with OEM Materials Engineering, R&D, Supply Chain and Product Development to qualify processes and products.
- Design and lead internal trials with Kennesaw and Manufacturing plants.
Qualifications
- 5 - 8 years of automotive application/development engineering or alloy development experience, preferably in the aluminum semi-fabricated sheet industry.
- Experience in manufacturing environment both at the customer and internal level.
- Bachelors in materials, metallurgical or mechanical engineering, or relevant subject area.
- Hands-on knowledge with forming and/or joining processes or analysis
- Experience with automotive material or component evaluation plans
- Project management skills
- Experience in the area of customer service on a working level and with plant management.
- Fundamental knowledge of SAP is a plus.
- Ability and desire to perform formability analysis
- Ability to understand part prints and work with CAD models,
- Familiarity with automotive functional requirements such as stiffness, durability, NVH, crash etc.
- Understanding of APQP process a plus
- Self-motivated and results driven
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
What We Offer:
This role offers a
hybrid schedule (with approximately 50% in the office/customer, 50% from home) in the office
. Novelis values the need for flexibility and balance for employees and is committed to a Flex Work approach that empowers employees to maintain work-life balance while enjoying the benefits of a synergetic office environment. Novelis values the need for flexibility and balance for employees.
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 household
- Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
Novelis recognizes its hard-working 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.
Location Profile:
Novelis’ Novi office is located twenty-five miles northwest of the heart of the motor city. Its 50+ employees provide dedicated commercial technical and recycling teams for Novelis’ growing automotive customer base. Novi is also the location of the company’s newly announced Customer Solution Center which will accelerate innovation between Novelis and automakers for the next generation of vehicle design. As one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan Novi offers a host of destination shopping and specialty expos fine dining options and outdoor recreation activities. Our Novi team is a key sponsor to community events such as Habitat for Humanity and local schools with its FIRST Robotics team and STEM education programs.
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