Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality

Novelis North America HQ • Novi, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Novelis is a global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, providing sustainable aluminum solutions for aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging, and specialty markets. With approximately 13,000 employees across 32 operating facilities on 4 continents, Novelis is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The Operations Excellence team is seeking a Regional CoE Lead - Progressive Quality to report to the Operations Excellence Senior Manager. This role will be responsible for leading the regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality, strengthening process ownership and control practices, and coaching plant teams within a multi-site manufacturing network. The objective is to improve process stability, prevent defects, reduce quality losses, and build sustainable capability to meet customer and business requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, economics, finance, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in manufacturing, operational excellence, continuous improvement, or management-system implementation.
• Experience leading improvement programs, cross-functional initiatives, or transformation efforts in a complex organization.
• Experience using data to identify gaps, prioritize actions, and improve operational performance.
• Experience deploying Lean, World Class Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, or similar operating-system methodologies.
• Ability to influence and coach leaders and technical teams without direct authority, with strong communication, facilitation, and change-management skills.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Postgraduate degree or Master of Business Administration in operations, continuous improvement, management systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience in a regional or multi-site manufacturing role, preferably in metals or a similar heavy-manufacturing environment.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
• Experience with process capability, statistical process control, process optimization, and manufacturing excellence.
• Experience establishing process ownership, process-governance systems, control strategies, and reaction plans.
• Knowledge of overall equipment effectiveness, loss deployment, routine management, maturity assessments, and quality-management systems (ISO 9001/IATF 16949).

Responsibilities

• Lead the regional deployment and governance of Progressive Quality standards, methodologies, and improvement plans across the plant network.
• Drive process ownership across the region by ensuring manufacturing processes have clearly defined owners accountable for process conditions, standards, performance targets, and the delivery of business results.
• Develop and standardize process controls, reaction plans, quality standards, visual management, and governance routines.
• Guide plants in translating customer requirements and product specifications into clear operating parameters and control strategies.
• Monitor process stability, variation, capability, customer performance, quality losses, and adherence to critical process conditions.
• Facilitate structured root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes to eliminate recurring defects and performance losses.
• Build regional capability through training, coaching, benchmarking, communities of practice, and replication of proven practices.
• Support audits and maturity assessments, track corrective actions, and escalate systemic barriers or resource gaps when required.

Benefits

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level