Machine & Fab Shop Supervisor
About The Position
The Machine Shop & Fabrication Shop Supervisor leads Novelis’ Bay Minette machining and metal fabrication operations. The role is accountable for safe execution, people leadership, work prioritization, quality, schedule performance, equipment readiness, and continuous improvement. The supervisor partners with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Planning, Procurement, and contractors to provide timely repair parts, precision-machined components, weldments, structural fabrications, field modifications, and breakdown support. The supervisor leads machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, and assigned contractors across both shops. The position manages shop work from request intake and scope definition through planning, materials coordination, execution, inspection, delivery, and closeout, ensuring work meets approved drawings, tolerances, material and welding requirements, and inspection standards. The supervisor maintains equipment readiness, develops employees, supports commissioning and emergency work, monitors shop performance and costs, and contributes to reliability improvements and compliance with company and applicable safety, environmental, fire-protection, and quality requirements. The position is based at Novelis’ newly announced Bay Minette facility, a rolling and recycling facility intended to serve the beverage can and automotive markets. Flexible onsite support is required during startup, outages, emergencies, and equipment failures. Novelis is unable to provide visa sponsorship; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Five or more years of industrial machine-shop, fabrication-shop, maintenance, or heavy-manufacturing experience.
- Two or more years leading skilled trades, shop personnel, contractors, or multi-craft work.
- Working knowledge of machining, welding and fabrication, mechanical drawings, tolerances, precision measurement, material identification, and shop safety.
- Ability to plan competing work, coordinate resources, communicate across functions, and drive safe completion.
- Basic Microsoft Office proficiency and ability to learn CMMS, purchasing, and timekeeping systems.
- Ability to provide flexible onsite support during startup, outages, emergencies, and equipment failures.
- Ability to meet position requirements with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in a related technical or business field.
- Journeyman-level experience as a machinist, toolmaker, millwright, welder, fabricator, or industrial maintenance technician.
- Experience leading both machine-shop and fabrication-shop operations in heavy industry.
- Experience with CNC and conventional machining, plasma cutting, structural or pipe fabrication, welding quality, dimensional inspection, SAP PM or another CMMS, lean manufacturing, and contractor coordination.
- Relevant AWS, NCCER, NIMS, OSHA, crane, or rigging credentials.
Responsibilities
- Lead machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, and assigned contractors across both shops.
- Build a zero-injury culture through visible safety leadership, pre-job planning, LOTO, machine guarding, hot-work controls, lifting and rigging, compressed-gas safety, and housekeeping.
- Prioritize work based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, job readiness, and customer need.
- Manage shop work from request intake and scope definition through planning, material coordination, execution, inspection, delivery, and closeout.
- Ensure parts, repairs, weldments, and fabrications meet approved drawings, tolerances, material requirements, welding requirements, and inspection standards.
- Maintain the readiness of machine tools, welding and cutting equipment, saws, cranes, hoists, tooling, fixtures, and precision measuring equipment.
- Develop employees through coaching, qualification plans, cross-training, performance feedback, and clear accountability.
- Support commissioning, shutdowns, emergency repairs, contractor work, and field modifications while protecting safety and quality.
- Monitor backlog, schedule attainment, rework, labor use, overtime, contractor support, and material and tooling costs.
- Develop standard work, inspection checklists, tool-control practices, material traceability, drawing revision controls, and shop performance measures.
- Support root-cause investigations and reliability improvements with repair-method, dimensional, fabrication, and maintainability input.
- Maintain compliance with company policies and applicable safety, environmental, fire-protection, and quality requirements.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility treatment
- Childcare discount
- Nursing Mom Support
- Employee assistance programs with 24/7 resources for mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
- Wellness incentives and programs, including a wellness spending account, healthy-habit programs, virtual physical therapy, and health management programs
- Diabetes Management Program
- Pet insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- PerkSpot Discount Program
- Tuition assistance and career development programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
High school or GED
